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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.

Revenue FY2025
$1.3M
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$80k
Net assets
$691k
2/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyers Association does

Mission

Ocdla provides continuing legal education, formal and informal networking, legislative action, and produces manuals, publications and email lists for the legal defense community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Conferences and seminars conducted for members and professional community; newsletter publications; sale of tapes and printed materials; maintenance of libraries and coordinating materials.

    $1,035,137 spent$741,803 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Conferences and seminars conducted for members and professional community;

    $3,570 spent
    0% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,038,707.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($956k) Expenses 100 ($1.0M) Net assets 100 ($723k)2018 Revenue 102 ($973k) Expenses 95 ($965k) Net assets 101 ($731k)2019 Revenue 120 ($1.1M) Expenses 105 ($1.1M) Net assets 112 ($806k)2020 Revenue 86 ($822k) Expenses 97 ($991k) Net assets 88 ($637k)2021 Revenue 81 ($779k) Expenses 74 ($750k) Net assets 92 ($666k)2022 Revenue 108 ($1.0M) Expenses 94 ($953k) Net assets 103 ($742k)2023 Revenue 101 ($965k) Expenses 108 ($1.1M) Net assets 84 ($610k)2024 Revenue 126 ($1.2M) Expenses 117 ($1.2M) Net assets 87 ($626k)2025 Revenue 131 ($1.3M) Expenses 117 ($1.2M) Net assets 96 ($691k)
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Revenue (131)Expenses (117)Net assets (96)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $1.1M to $988k (−14%).

$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.2M
$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.1M
$988k
$888k
$1.0M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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.

−$62k
’17
$8k
’18
$75k
’19
−$169k
’20
$29k
’21
$76k
’22
−$132k
’23
$16k
’24
$65k
’25
3.8
months of
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.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Listed161515151617151716
Joined·+0+6+10+3+6+4+3+6
No longer listed·161025617
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $35k → $1k.

Funder
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'20
'21
'22
'23
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'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
3
2
1
2

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.

44%
largest funder
94%
top three
~3
effective funders

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.

OR
DE
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
Oregon out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

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.

State$267k
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Top programs
  • 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

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In Oregon

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 13%Fundraising 0%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

OR

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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.

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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 5 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