Oregon · Nonprofit
OREGON INNOVATION FOUNDATION
OREGON INNOVATION FOUNDATION (Oregon) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $175,630 to it, the largest being MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST ($150,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $35k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $176k
- Net assets
- $26k
What Oregon Innovation Foundation does
Mission
To ignite and amplify a culture of creative problem solving and empower the next generation of innovators to meet some of the biggest challenges facing our state.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
For the year ended December 31, 2024 the organization operated the following programs:1.Network & Community Development Program: This foundational program focuses on building, managing, and maintaining valuable relationships that accelerate our work and foster collaboration.2.Fiscal Sponsorship Program: We support individuals and groups with innovative ideas for civic innovation, providing the administrative and financial infrastructure they need to bring their ideas to life.3.Research, Reporting, and Learning Program: We focus on continuous learning and sharing insights through research, reporting, and evaluation.
$58,079 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $58,079.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2018 to 2019, from $142k to $16k (−89%).
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.
100% of OREGON INNOVATION FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (89% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 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
Dwayne Johnson
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $10k → $5k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 INNOVATION 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
OREGON INNOVATION FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 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
94% of OREGON INNOVATION FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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.
Against its field
OREGON INNOVATION FOUNDATION's revenue fell 85% between 2018 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 660 science & tech nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like OREGON INNOVATION 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.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OREGON INNOVATION 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 OREGON INNOVATION FOUNDATION?
- OREGON INNOVATION FOUNDATION (Oregon) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $175,630 to it, the largest being MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST ($150,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OREGON INNOVATION FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $175,630 in grants to OREGON INNOVATION FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OREGON INNOVATION FOUNDATION?
- MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OREGON INNOVATION 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), 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