Oregon · Nonprofit
North Star Collaborative Foundation
North Star Collaborative Foundation (Oregon) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $485,811 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($285,811). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $783k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $486k
- Net assets
- $383k
What North Star Collaborative Foundation does
Programs
Free and Open Democracy Bull Run Center: Supported civic leaders from government, business, philanthropy, community, arts and other sectors to strengthen collaborative relationships, discuss challenges and ideas related the future of Portland and changes in City governance, and explore diverse perspectives.
$272,362 spentFree and Open Democracy Stumptown Stats and other Democracy Research, Policy, & Convening: Conducted research on historic voter participation in the City of Portland and in cities that had adopted ranked choice voting and districts. Continued updating a "dashboard" website to share research. Hosted briefings for journalists, researchers, and the general public to share research and analysis following the first Ranked-Choice Voting elections in Portland.
$119,730 spentProsperous and Equitable Economy Program Area: Economy Research, Policy and Convening - Research and analysis of economic policy issues in Oregon.
$18,947 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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 $98k to $1.0M (+961%).
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Caitlin Davis
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $65k → $10k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $86k from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest North Star Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money North Star Collaborative Foundation raised.
From the IRS filings of North Star Collaborative Foundation’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
North Star Collaborative Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% 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 North Star Collaborative Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 32% · 2021 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
74% of North Star Collaborative Foundation's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $125k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $361k 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.
Against its field
North Star Collaborative Foundation is better cushioned than half of the 4,505 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,505 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like North Star Collaborative Foundation
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for North Star Collaborative Foundation: 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 North Star Collaborative Foundation?
- North Star Collaborative Foundation (Oregon) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $485,811 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($285,811). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does North Star Collaborative Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $485,811 in grants to North Star Collaborative Foundation, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of North Star Collaborative Foundation?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $285,811 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like North Star Collaborative Foundation 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing