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OREGON INSTITUTE FOR CREATIVE RESEARCH
OREGON INSTITUTE FOR CREATIVE RESEARCH (Georgia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $389,700 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($200,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $99k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $390k
- Net assets
- $16k
What Oregon Institute for Creative Research does
Mission
The Oregon Institute for Creative Research: e4 is a nonprofit corporation whose primary purpose is to operate a higher learning and research institution that advances work at the intersection of ethics, sthetics, ecology, and education, given the fact that the challenges of the 21st century are so great that no single domain in and of itself is capable of adequately addressing them. Towards this end, oicr fosters thinkers and makers devoted to addressing social, psychological, and ecological problems in new and innovative ways-scholars, theorists, researchers, journalists, documentarians, social-justice advocates, artists, writers, and poets. The institute provides opportunities for research, education, conferences, roundtables, colloquia, artist residencies, public outreach, and special projects.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The major service provided by oicr is teaching. Here is a representative seminar: in the critical theory seminar, students analyze notions of critique in the work and life of major thinkers, paying particular attention to their understanding of theory and practice, thought and action, form and feeling, medium and message, matter and memory, time and experience, intelligence and the senses, aesthetics and representation in relation to technological procedures, sociological categorization, political phenomena, and the capture and creation of lived realities. We begin by expanding the meaning of contemporaneity and go on to examine how meaning, individual and collective, is made or, conversely, unmade under various conditions. We are interested particularly in generating new modes of critique and judgment that will allow us to evaluate any number of contemporary phenomena, including the notion of judgment itself, the subject to which arendt devoted the last years of her life and about which she was writing and thinking shortly before her death. Students can expect to read agamben, arendt, bachelard, baudrillard, benjamin, bergson, flusser, foucault, levinas, mcluhan, merleau-ponty,…
$66,902 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $66,902.
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 2023 to 2024, from $860 to $27k (+3038%).
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 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $200 → $23k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 INSTITUTE FOR CREATIVE RESEARCH’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 INSTITUTE FOR CREATIVE RESEARCH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
58% 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 INSTITUTE FOR CREATIVE RESEARCH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 64% · 2022 79% · 2023 44% — 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
58% of OREGON INSTITUTE FOR CREATIVE RESEARCH'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 $162k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Georgia, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $228k 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.
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In Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 INSTITUTE FOR CREATIVE RESEARCH: 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 INSTITUTE FOR CREATIVE RESEARCH?
- OREGON INSTITUTE FOR CREATIVE RESEARCH (Georgia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $389,700 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($200,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does OREGON INSTITUTE FOR CREATIVE RESEARCH have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $389,700 in grants to OREGON INSTITUTE FOR CREATIVE RESEARCH, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OREGON INSTITUTE FOR CREATIVE RESEARCH?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OREGON INSTITUTE FOR CREATIVE RESEARCH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 7 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