Oregon · Nonprofit
OREGON SPINAL CORD INJURY CONNECTION
OREGON SPINAL CORD INJURY CONNECTION (Oregon) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $272,818 to it, the largest being MARIE LAMFROM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST ($90,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $427k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $273k
- Net assets
- $792k
What Oregon Spinal Cord Injury Connection does
Mission
The mission of Oregon Spinal Cord Injury Connection is to ensure everyone living with a spinal cord injury in Oregon has the care, community, and resources they need to thrive.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER PROGRAM: After a traumatic SCI, social support is critically important. Trauma can leave lasting marks on a person's mind, heart and body that can result in an inability to trust easily. A CHW is a peer who has similar lived-experienced of spinal cord injury trauma and can offer emotional support in the form of empathy, empowerment, trust, and care. A community health worker also helps a person learn to direct their own care, adopt positive coping mechanisms and health-promoting behaviors, skills, and habits that will help them thrive. A CHW provides a warm introduction to the Oregon SCI community where new friendships support recreation, education, employment, stable housing, and peer connections. Additionally, as a liaison and link to the healthcare system and other community organizations CHWs can offer tangible aid to resources and services. Newly injured people who are supported by CHWs and the OSCI community are more likely to avoid serious secondary health conditions that can lead to rehospitalization. This level of personal advocacy accelerates their transition through the tumultuous first year toward being independent and developing a positive…
$222,244 spent49% of program spendingWHEELCHAIR MAINTENANCE WORKSHOPS: A flat tire, bad caster bearings, or broken brakes are not only a risk to to safety, these equipment failures can prevent people with SCIs from participating in the activities of your daily life, like going to the doctor and meeting with friends. OSCI helps our clients keep their chairs in tip-top maintenance. Together with our partners we provide a free wheelchair maintenance workshops. The goal of this program is to provide tools and equipment to support learning, entry-level maintenance, and repairs for anyone who wants to learn more about wheelchair maintenance or is experiencing an urgent need.
$136,894 spent30% of program spendingSOCIAL ACTIVITIES: MEET-UPS - Many individuals with a new spinal cord injury don't know anyone else in a wheelchair which can be a scary and isolating reality. Our community meet-ups are not a formal support group, but people who attend feel supported. It's a safe space to meet other wheelchair users, swap stories, ask questions, and learn tips and tricks from others. The group meets in a casual, accessible public setting like a pizza parlor, brewpub, or restaurant. There is no agenda other than welcoming others and making new friends. OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES - Summer is the season for the outdoors and camping, and yet people living with spinal cord injury are less likely to go camping and enjoy the great Oregon outdoors because of diverse environmental barriers. Specifically, the majority of Oregon's camping facilities and outdoor recreation programs are not designed to accommodate people with disabilities. Our adaptive camping program gets people with SCI and their families and friends into nature for a weekend of camping.
$98,094 spent21% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $457,232.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $321k to $1.0M (+215%).
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: 2020 75% · 2021 85% · 2022 58% · 2023 53% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of OREGON SPINAL CORD INJURY CONNECTION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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.
Chief executive
West Livaudais
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $135k → $45k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 SPINAL CORD INJURY CONNECTION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 9 funders by total. 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 SPINAL CORD INJURY CONNECTION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
31% 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 SPINAL CORD INJURY CONNECTION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 37% · 2023 55% — growing more concentrated.
“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
99% of OREGON SPINAL CORD INJURY CONNECTION's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40k 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 SPINAL CORD INJURY CONNECTION is better cushioned than half of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding OREGON SPINAL CORD INJURY CONNECTION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.3M on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$463k
- PAYMENTS TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$461k
- OTHER DISTRIBUTION TO TAXABLE SUBRECIP$330k
- OTHER SPEC PAYMENTS-MEDICIAL SERVICES$4k
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 SPINAL CORD INJURY CONNECTION
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 SPINAL CORD INJURY CONNECTION: 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 SPINAL CORD INJURY CONNECTION?
- OREGON SPINAL CORD INJURY CONNECTION (Oregon) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $272,818 to it, the largest being MARIE LAMFROM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST ($90,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OREGON SPINAL CORD INJURY CONNECTION have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $272,818 in grants to OREGON SPINAL CORD INJURY CONNECTION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OREGON SPINAL CORD INJURY CONNECTION?
- MARIE LAMFROM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $90,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OREGON SPINAL CORD INJURY CONNECTION 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 9 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