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OREGON JOURNALISM PROJECT
OREGON JOURNALISM PROJECT (Oregon) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $507,200 to it, the largest being ALTERNATIVE NEWSWEEKLY FOUNDATION ($375,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $720k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $507k
- Net assets
- $356k
What Oregon Journalism Project does
Mission
Oregon Journalism Project's mission is to inform, engage, and empower oregonians with the kind of data-driven and solution-seeking investigative reporting that makes a significant impact at the state and local levels - serving no agenda other than a pursuit of the truth
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In our first year of operation, ojp's statewide investigative newsroom published 121 stories, which have been read by oregonians everywhere in the state through our distribution network. Our journalism has already achieved significant civic impact: our stories have led conservation groups to petition the governor to assess an unproven technology, the state deq to pause enforcement of a controversial regulation, and a major state agency to hold its leadership accountable. These are just a few of our first-year impacts.
$197,834 spent93% of program spendingOjp built a robust network of publishing partners, ranging from family-owned newspapers started in the 19th century to digital startups founded by recent college graduates. Our publishing network now includes 45 partners, seven of whom have published at least a dozen of our stories. These partners receive our journalism for free.
$14,141 spent7% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $211,975.
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
Peter Bragdon
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 JOURNALISM PROJECT’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 JOURNALISM PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
80% 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 JOURNALISM PROJECT.
“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
OREGON JOURNALISM PROJECT draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 4 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
OREGON JOURNALISM PROJECT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like OREGON JOURNALISM PROJECT
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
58% 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 JOURNALISM PROJECT: 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 JOURNALISM PROJECT?
- OREGON JOURNALISM PROJECT (Oregon) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $507,200 to it, the largest being ALTERNATIVE NEWSWEEKLY FOUNDATION ($375,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OREGON JOURNALISM PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $507,200 in grants to OREGON JOURNALISM PROJECT, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OREGON JOURNALISM PROJECT?
- ALTERNATIVE NEWSWEEKLY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $375,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OREGON JOURNALISM PROJECT 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 13 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