Oregon · Nonprofit
OUR CHILDREN'S TRUST
OUR CHILDREN'S TRUST (Oregon) receives grants from 121 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,425,486 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($2,309,477). 53 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $791k
- Funders on record
- 121
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $3.3M
What Our Children's Trust does
Mission
Our Children's Trust empowers youth to secure their rights to life and a livable climate in courts around the world, enshrine the best science in law, and compel government action to protect their futures. We represent young people in state, federal, and international courts, setting precedents as judges increasingly recognize governments' duty to protect future generations. Our plaintiffs challenged transportation departments, energy agencies, and fossil fuel promoting utility systems while supporting constitutional amendments to protect children's rights. We're using civil rights legal tactics to pursue constitutional precedent that transcends politics - creating ripples that reshape climate justice and compel action nationwide.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
This form 990 covers a short fiscal year from january 1, 2025 through march 31, 2025, reflecting the organization's transition to a new fiscal year ending march 31. As a result, this filing reflects a one-time limited three-month reporting period rather than a full year of programmatic activity.programmatic activities during the short fiscal year:during the january - march 2025 period, Our Children's Trust continued active litigation, legal strategy development, youth engagement, and organizational operations consistent with our established mission and long-term program strategy. This period primarily involved continuation of ongoing cases, legal preparation, youth support, and organizational planning rather than discrete new initiatives or case resolutions.given the abbreviated nature of the reporting period, the organization does not attempt to comprehensively summarize programmatic achievements within this schedule o narrative.reference to full 2025 impact reporting:for a comprehensive overview of Our Children's Trust's 2025 programmatic impact, litigation outcomes, youth engagement, global advocacy, and public education efforts, readers are directed to the organization's 2025…
$865,991 spent$2,283 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $865,991.
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 2017 to 2018, from $2.3M to $4.1M (+76%).
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 10% · 2021 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of OUR CHILDREN'S TRUST’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 23 funders to 41 funders, grant income rose $1.5M → $3.6M.
33 of 121 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 OUR CHILDREN'S TRUST’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 121 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
OUR CHILDREN'S TRUST has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
64% 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'S TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 20% · 2019 13% · 2020 21% · 2021 19% · 2022 20% · 2023 33% — broadly stable.
“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
34% of OUR CHILDREN'S TRUST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
58% of OUR CHILDREN'S TRUST'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 $6.5M that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from funders outside Oregon, across 27 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 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'S TRUST is better cushioned than half of the 2,606 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,606 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like OUR CHILDREN'S TRUST
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 14 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OUR CHILDREN'S TRUST: 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'S TRUST?
- OUR CHILDREN'S TRUST (Oregon) receives grants from 121 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,425,486 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($2,309,477). 53 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does OUR CHILDREN'S TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 121 organizations giving $15,425,486 in grants to OUR CHILDREN'S TRUST, 53 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OUR CHILDREN'S TRUST?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,309,477 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OUR CHILDREN'S TRUST 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 121 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