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OREGON CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS ASSOCIATION
OREGON CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS ASSOCIATION (Oregon) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,596 to it, the largest being Coalition for Public Safety ($35,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Justice Action Networkshared funders
- The Foundation of the Federal Bar Associationportfolio match
- Oregon Law Foundationportfolio match
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.
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: 2021 12% · 2022 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $35k → $1k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 OREGON CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS ASSOCIATION’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
OREGON CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
96% 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 OREGON CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 88% · 2023 83% — 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
51% of OREGON CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Justice Action Networkshared fundersDC · backs 18 organizations that share your funders
- The Foundation of the Federal Bar Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Oregon Law Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Association for Justiceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Colorado Lawyer Trust Account Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American College of Bankruptcy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation II of the American College of Trial Lawyers Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Oregon Education Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Service Employees International Unionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Native American Rights Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Educationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John and Linda Shelk Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding OREGON CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $267k on record.
- PROF DEV DUES/MEMBERSHIP$140k
- PROF DEV INSTATE TUITION/REGISTRATION$64k
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$30k
- TRAINING, EDUCATION OR INSTRUCTION SRVC$17k
- OTHER SERVICES$10k
- SUBSCRIPTIONS AND PUBLICATIONS$3k
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 OREGON CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS ASSOCIATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 OREGON CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS ASSOCIATION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds OREGON CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS ASSOCIATION?
- OREGON CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS ASSOCIATION (Oregon) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,596 to it, the largest being Coalition for Public Safety ($35,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OREGON CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $79,596 in grants to OREGON CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS ASSOCIATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OREGON CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS ASSOCIATION?
- Coalition for Public Safety is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OREGON CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS ASSOCIATION 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 5funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing