Oregon · Nonprofit
OREGONIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY PUBLIC BENEFITS INC
OREGONIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY PUBLIC BENEFITS INC (Oregon) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $132,442 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($93,742). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $170k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $132k
- Net assets
- $36k
What Oregonian Publishing Company Public Benefits Inc does
Mission
Oregonian publishing company public benefits, inc. Exists to conduct fund raising drives each holiday season. Through its season of sharing program, significant funds are raised each year to help social service agencies that serve individuals and families in oregon and southwest washington. The oregonian publishing company bears most the administrative costs of the charity thus maximizing the distribution of funds for worthy causes.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Season of sharing mission: to provide assistance to social service agencies that serve individuals and families during the winter holidays. Background: season of sharing is the oregonian's 85-year-old annual holiday fundraising campaign to help social service agencies that serve individuals and families in oregon and southwest washington.
$169,946 spentof which $169,946 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $169,946.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $55k → $10k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 OREGONIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY PUBLIC BENEFITS INC’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
OREGONIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY PUBLIC BENEFITS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
77% 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 OREGONIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY PUBLIC BENEFITS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 82% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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
77% of OREGONIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY PUBLIC BENEFITS INC'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 $31k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from funders outside Oregon, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $101k 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.
Organizations like OREGONIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY PUBLIC BENEFITS INC
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
100% 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 OREGONIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY PUBLIC BENEFITS INC: 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 OREGONIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY PUBLIC BENEFITS INC?
- OREGONIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY PUBLIC BENEFITS INC (Oregon) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $132,442 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($93,742). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does OREGONIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY PUBLIC BENEFITS INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $132,442 in grants to OREGONIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY PUBLIC BENEFITS INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OREGONIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY PUBLIC BENEFITS INC?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $93,742 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OREGONIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY PUBLIC BENEFITS INC 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 4 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