Oregon · Nonprofit
OUR CHILDREN OREGON
OUR CHILDREN OREGON (Oregon) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,685,042 to it, the largest being The Ford Family Foundation ($510,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $449k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $5.6M
What Our Children Oregon does
Mission
Our Children Oregon's mission is to be a voice and force for the common good for all oregon children, ensuring all children have the resources and opportunities they need to reach their full potential. We elevate data and the voices of communities to amplify the need and collaboratively develop policy and public investments to improve overall child and family well-being across the state. Our vision is that oregon will lead the nation in providing a statewide community that nurtures and protects all children, ensuring that all "our children" belong and have equal value and opportunity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Policy & advocacy: in order to make oregon a place where all children can thrive, we must ensure an even playing field for children to reach their full potential. To provide this foundation, children and their families must have access to the resources that they need to thrive. This access works like a power grid, but it is patchy and uneven in some areas. Policy changes and financial investments can help us repair and expand oregon's resource grid so that every family and every child has the "energy" to achieve their full potential. Through the children's agenda, we provide state legislators and fellow advocates with a roadmap for this work by prioritizing policy solutions to address the most pressing problems and opportunities facing children and families. Our Children Oregon brings together a community of advocates, coalitions, and partner organizations to champion state legislative policies and shared investments that benefit child well-being. Our 137 partner organizations come together prior to each legislative session to share their expertise in child and family issues. Their diversity of knowledge, perspectives, and priorities informs the policies we pursue and the…
$531,259 spentof which $41,000 as grants92% of program spendingAll children thrive:the act collective is a newer program of Our Children Oregon that includes individuals, organizations, community and faith-based groups, and small businesses and companies committed to improving child well-being statewide. Through act, oco is working to build a network of committed advocates for oregon's future through accessible and cost-free civic engagement, education and advocacy opportunities. Rooted in shared values, act brings together youth, families and individuals, alongside organizations, groups and businesses statewide, to act collectively for and with oregon's children and youth.
$36,997 spent6% of program spendingResearch & data:Our Children Oregon is focused on advancing racial equity through data-driven policy recommendations. By doing so, we aim to inform legislators and public authorities of holistic solutions that serve the holistic needs of oregon's children. Our provision of reliable disaggregated data, which encompasses a range of demographics and geographical areas, enhances the dialogue around child well-being and assists decision-makers in better serving their diverse communities. Our Children Oregon has served as oregon's state kids count partner (a program of the annie e. Casey foundation) for over two decades. We support the mission of kids count to ensure unbiased and high-quality disaggregated data about child well-being is accessible to the public, advocates, and policymakers through the production and promotion of the oregon county data book. Released annually in the spring, this report on the status of oregon's children and families monitors key indicators across domains of child well-being, including health and education, at the state
$6,217 spent1% of program spendingEquity in policy internship program: cultivating the next generation of advocatesOur Children Oregon's equity in policy & advocacy internship program is designed to cultivate the next generation of child advocates while advancing equity in the policy field. This year, the program continued to recruit broadly from oregon universities, with particular focus on students from underrepresented backgrounds.10 years of children's agenda impact:fiscal year 20242025 marked a milestone as oco began celebrating ten years of the children's agenda. This retrospective highlights a decade of collective impact, with the children's agenda having influenced state policy and investment across education, economic well-being, health, family and community, and climate and sustainability since its founding.community engagement & events:oco continued robust community engagement throughout fy 20242025, convening advocates, families, policymakers, and partner organizations through in-person and virtual events.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $574,473.
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. 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 2020 to 2021, from $5.3M to $6.4M (+21%).
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 1% · 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
52% of OUR CHILDREN OREGON’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Matt Bartolotti
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $38k → $649k.
3 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $257k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Children First for Oregon). These are real filings, and they are not money OUR CHILDREN OREGON raised.
From the IRS filings of OUR CHILDREN OREGON’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
OUR CHILDREN OREGON has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
29% 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 OUR CHILDREN OREGON.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 49% · 2019 57% · 2020 38% · 2021 18% · 2022 20% · 2023 23% — 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
60% of OUR CHILDREN OREGON's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
77% of OUR CHILDREN OREGON's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $152k 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
OUR CHILDREN OREGON's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 12 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like OUR CHILDREN OREGON
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
49% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
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 OUR CHILDREN OREGON: 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 OUR CHILDREN OREGON?
- OUR CHILDREN OREGON (Oregon) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,685,042 to it, the largest being The Ford Family Foundation ($510,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OUR CHILDREN OREGON have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $2,685,042 in grants to OUR CHILDREN OREGON, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OUR CHILDREN OREGON?
- The Ford Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $510,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OUR CHILDREN OREGON 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 22 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