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OREGON VALUES AND BELIEFS CENTER
OREGON VALUES AND BELIEFS CENTER (Oregon) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,236,459 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($649,196). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $248k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $94k
What Oregon Values and Beliefs Center does
Mission
To provide accurate, inclusive opinion research to help oregonians build stronger communities through the following: - giving voice to the values and beliefs of oregonians underrepresented in likely voter surveys and proportional sampling, like communities of color and residents of rural parts of the state. - shining a light on oregonians' shared values and beliefs which represent the common ground we can stand on together to bridge the divides in oregon and build a better future. - providing high-quality, valid, and statistically reliable information to organizations working to build stronger communities, many of whom could not otherwise afford it, to help with planning, policymaking, and communications; needs assessments; program evaluation; and public engagement and education.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
Development:-secured a grant from the marie lamfrom charitable trust-updated and developed new material for grant applications, presentations, and donor cultivation-identified, cultivated, and stewarded prospective donor relationships, including major gifts prospects-conducted an annual fundraising campaign-cultivated relationships with fee-for-service prospects to assist with securing sustainable funding
$175,750 spent60% of program spendingOpinion research and communications:8 statewide surveys, 2 surveys of tailored populations, and a substantial, marquis cluster analysis project, including:- research and sample design- questionnaire development- programming, hosting online survey on independent server- online administration and monitoring response for quality- data processing- analysis and reportingfor each survey, three work products:- annotated questionnaire- crosstabulations- verbatims file for responses to open-ended questions sortable by key demographicsplus key-findings memo for each topic covered in the survey, distributed to local news organizations, ovbc panelists, and contacts database of over 400 individuals, and published on the ovbc website for public use.
$86,015 spent$26,950 earned by the program29% of program spendingPanel development and recruitment:- converted from survey programming by an outside contractor to programming by an employee -transferred panel and survey hosting to qualtrics - using a variety of techniques including social media and print advertising, continued recruiting panel members with a focus on underrepresented general population subgroups including lower levels of formal education; residents of rural and frontier areas; young adults, aged 18-35; those with lower annual income; black, indigenous, and other oregonians of color- continued improvements to the rewards program for panel participation (fred meyer gift cards, in addition to venmo, paypal, or donation to an oregon non-profit)- continued monitoring of the panel's demographics for representativeness of the state's general population to assist with recruitment targeting and research sampling
$32,095 spent11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $293,860.
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 2021 to 2022, from $293k to $175k (−40%).
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.
89% of OREGON VALUES AND BELIEFS CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 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
Adam Davis
Chair, executive director
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $280k → $206k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 VALUES AND BELIEFS CENTER’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 VALUES AND BELIEFS CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
54% 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 VALUES AND BELIEFS CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 54% · 2021 58% · 2022 45% · 2023 49% — 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.
How long its funders stay
43% of OREGON VALUES AND BELIEFS CENTER's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 40% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
54% of OREGON VALUES AND BELIEFS CENTER'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 $575k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $662k 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.
Against its field
OREGON VALUES AND BELIEFS CENTER's revenue fell 37% between 2020 and 2023.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,916 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Government funding OREGON VALUES AND BELIEFS CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $13k on record.
- OTHER SERVICES$8k
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT>$75K$5k
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 VALUES AND BELIEFS CENTER
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
90% 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 VALUES AND BELIEFS CENTER: 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 VALUES AND BELIEFS CENTER?
- OREGON VALUES AND BELIEFS CENTER (Oregon) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,236,459 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($649,196). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does OREGON VALUES AND BELIEFS CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,236,459 in grants to OREGON VALUES AND BELIEFS CENTER, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OREGON VALUES AND BELIEFS CENTER?
- THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $649,196 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OREGON VALUES AND BELIEFS CENTER 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 FY2023 (financials across 2020–2023), and the filings of 10 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing