Oregon · Nonprofit
Orbis Cascade Alliance
Orbis Cascade Alliance (Oregon) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,000 to it, the largest being ELEVEN TWENTY SEVEN FOUNDATION ($2,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What Orbis Cascade Alliance does
Mission
The Orbis Cascade Alliance enables member libraries to advance institutional missions through collaboration and innovation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Includes the electronic resource and E-book service. The Orbis Cascade Alliance helps its members and other libraries in the region to purchase electronic resources and E-books.The Alliance's role may take various forms and can include activities such as resource selection and license & price negotiation. The Alliance also works with its member institutions and their patrons to purchase electronic book content to support the member's institutional degree / program offerings based on patron usage.
$14,575,270 spent$14,615,898 earned by the program75% of program spendingIntegrated Library Systems: Provides a shared library management information system that provides a common platform and data structure that can be used by all Alliance libraries at a reduced cost.
$2,873,333 spent$2,874,032 earned by the program15% of program spendingThe unique & local content program provides for development, stewardship and dissemination of unique and local content. Services under the unique & local content program include: archives & manuscript collections, which provides enhanced access to thousands of archival and manuscript collections in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Utah, and Washington through the archives west website, and support for archival collection management and digital collections, which supports the creation, maintenance, and aggregation of unique digital content held by alliance libraries.
$1,456,101 spent$1,504,354 earned by the program7% of program spendingThe resource sharing and fulfillment program provides: Software support for sharing library materials; courier program management (across Oregon, Washington, and Idaho) for a service transporting shared library materials; courier supplies, such as bins, bags and labels; software support for finding and requesting library materials in a shared library catalog; and training for consortium member staff.
$616,424 spent$614,773 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $19,521,128.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $3.7M to $6.7M (+79%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2020 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
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.
Board chair
Craig Milberg
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $1k.
From the IRS filings of Orbis Cascade Alliance’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.
Where its funders are
Orbis Cascade Alliance draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Government funding Orbis Cascade Alliance receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $811k on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$474k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$288k
- DUES/MEMBERSHIPS$27k
- AGENCY PROGRAM RELATED SUPPLIES$22k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Orbis Cascade Alliance
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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
49%
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 Orbis Cascade Alliance: 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 Orbis Cascade Alliance?
- Orbis Cascade Alliance (Oregon) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,000 to it, the largest being ELEVEN TWENTY SEVEN FOUNDATION ($2,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Orbis Cascade Alliance have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,000 in grants to Orbis Cascade Alliance, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Orbis Cascade Alliance?
- ELEVEN TWENTY SEVEN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Orbis Cascade Alliance 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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