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RESOURCE MEDIA

RESOURCE MEDIA (Oregon) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,976,350 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION ($3,115,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$6.2M
Funders on record
52
Grants received
$15M
Net assets
$2.5M
26/52 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 36%
01What it does

What Resource Media does

Mission

Resource Media uses strategic communications to broaden the base of support for policies and actions that promote healthy, just, sustainable and prosperous communities. We do this by developing and implementing communications strategies that bring more people into the conversation, break down the silos between issues and promote narratives that connect those issues with broadly held public values.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Resource Media works on multiple scales to develop and implement communications strategies to connect audiences around shared concerns and ultimately motivate them to act, either by changing behavior or changing policy. We do this by surfacing common values, shaping and creating online and traditional media content, conducting research to improve strategy, and convening partners around shared learning. From advocates focused on advancing clean energy and energy efficiency to engaging communities in support of improved public health outcomes, we help a wide range of partners make real impact on issues that affect communities across the globe.

    $6,364,355 spent$3,998,417 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,364,355.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.7M) Expenses 100 ($4.2M) Net assets 100 ($2.1M)2018 Revenue 116 ($4.2M) Expenses 112 ($4.8M) Net assets 74 ($1.5M)2019 Revenue 135 ($4.9M) Expenses 129 ($5.5M) Net assets 48 ($996k)2020 Revenue 193 ($7.0M) Expenses 151 ($6.4M) Net assets 77 ($1.6M)2021 Revenue 247 ($9.0M) Expenses 194 ($8.2M) Net assets 115 ($2.4M)2022 Revenue 258 ($9.4M) Expenses 187 ($7.9M) Net assets 186 ($3.9M)2023 Revenue 221 ($8.1M) Expenses 204 ($8.6M) Net assets 159 ($3.3M)2024 Revenue 170 ($6.2M) Expenses 166 ($7.0M) Net assets 119 ($2.5M)
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Revenue (170)Expenses (166)Net assets (119)Peer revenue range

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 $4.5M to $6.4M (+43%).

$2.4M
$2.5M
$1.6M
$3.0M
$4.5M
$6.4M
$4.7M
$3.2M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

35% of RESOURCE MEDIA’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,303 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$592k
’17
−$536k
’18
−$553k
’19
$619k
’20
$778k
’21
$1.5M
’22
−$572k
’23
−$831k
’24
4.1
months of
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

Pilar Montoya

Executive director

Board chair

Jose G Gonzalez

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1819222020171720
Joined·+2+9+4+1+6+0+3
No longer listed·1661900
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $1.8M.

9 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 RESOURCE MEDIA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 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

RESOURCE MEDIA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

58% 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 RESOURCE MEDIA.

21%
largest funder
43%
top three
~11
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 35% · 2019 53% · 2020 48% · 2021 23% · 2022 26% · 2023 39% — 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

33% of RESOURCE MEDIA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

RESOURCE MEDIA draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 15 states in all.

WA
MN
IL
NY
OR
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE
AR
DC
GA
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Oregon out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

RESOURCE MEDIA's funding base is broadening — from 11 funders to 12 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−13% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve4.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,187 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like RESOURCE MEDIA

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 5%Fundraising 4%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

71%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 2 states

OR
CA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RESOURCE MEDIA: 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 RESOURCE MEDIA?
RESOURCE MEDIA (Oregon) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,976,350 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION ($3,115,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does RESOURCE MEDIA have?
IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $14,976,350 in grants to RESOURCE MEDIA, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RESOURCE MEDIA?
UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,115,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RESOURCE MEDIA 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 52 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