Oregon · Nonprofit
MCKENZIE RIVER DISCOVERY CENTER
MCKENZIE RIVER DISCOVERY CENTER (Oregon) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,696,191 to it, the largest being DORIS AND BILL SCHARPF FOUNDATION ($1,006,391). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2021
- $472k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $289k
What McKenzie River Discovery Center does
Mission
The McKenzie River Discovery Center is designed to educate and engage generations of knowledgeable stewards of the river in a safe indoor/outdoor experience. The current activities are staff and materials for a capital campaign to build the new mrdc.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.
Program
Through safe and engaging indoor and outdoor experiences, to provide entertaining education through interactive experiences that inspire strong support for the mckenzie river watershed, its extraordinary river, iconic boats, cultural legacies, and fish.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $275k to $404k (+47%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $25k → $700k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of MCKENZIE RIVER DISCOVERY CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
MCKENZIE RIVER DISCOVERY CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
27% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund MCKENZIE RIVER DISCOVERY CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 88% · 2020 92% · 2021 73% · 2022 50% · 2023 72% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
81% of MCKENZIE RIVER DISCOVERY CENTER's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $445k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like MCKENZIE RIVER DISCOVERY CENTER
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
55% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
65%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MCKENZIE RIVER DISCOVERY CENTER: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MCKENZIE RIVER DISCOVERY CENTER?
- MCKENZIE RIVER DISCOVERY CENTER (Oregon) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,696,191 to it, the largest being DORIS AND BILL SCHARPF FOUNDATION ($1,006,391). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MCKENZIE RIVER DISCOVERY CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $1,696,191 in grants to MCKENZIE RIVER DISCOVERY CENTER, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MCKENZIE RIVER DISCOVERY CENTER?
- DORIS AND BILL SCHARPF FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,006,391 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MCKENZIE RIVER DISCOVERY CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2021 (financials across 2020–2021), and the filings of 7 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing