Oregon · Nonprofit
RURAL ORGANIZING PROJECT
RURAL ORGANIZING PROJECT (Oregon) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,859,429 to it, the largest being MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST ($1,069,578). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $4.9M
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Rural Organizing Project does
Mission
Our mission is to strengthen the skills, resources and vision of primary leadership in local autonomous human dignity groups with a goal of keeping such groups a vibrant source for a just democracy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Capacity building support for human dignity groups: rop supported more than 95 autonomous, volunteer-led human dignity groups representing every county in oregon to increase their impact and ability to organize for the long-haul. We focused on making sure each group has a leadership team, systems for communicating with a growing base, and campaigns that build the group's local power in the community. Rop also supported groups by hosting know your rights and legal observer trainings, facilitating planning processes and meetings, coaching and training, sharing our capacity building toolkit, connecting leaders to resources similar groups have already developed, and convening our 34th annual rural caucus & strategy session. (continued on schedule o) the caucus was our largest ever (160 people!) with many first-time attendees and leaders from 31 counties converging in eastern oregon. 76 groups convened for regional conversations to build a collective vision for just futures. New connections led to cross-county collaborations throughout the year.
$294,290 spentof which $16,037 as grants$15,546 earned by the program29% of program spendingCommunity resource centers as a hub for advancing democracy: rop, in partnership with the hood river latino network, opened its newest field office in the columbia river gorge in 2024 and in the 24-25 fiscal year, rop increased the capacity of our two community centers, the immigrant help center in the columbia river gorge region, and the community building center serving south lane county communities. Our community centers are part of a broader strategy to mobilize effective responses to threats against immigrants and other targeted communities, and to build a people-centered movement for justice. The spaces serve as cultural resources, training and event hubs, and vehicles for fostering community leadership development. (continued on schedule o) we connect with local leaders who come together to problem-solve and identify community solutions that defend the rights of latinos and immigrants and advance social justice for all. Center-hosted community events include the annual hood river latino fest, which brought over 1000 attendees together in last august. The community building center in south lane county specifically serves as a regional community center and the home for our…
$471,285 spent$12,265 earned by the program46% of program spendingCivic engagement: across the state, groups talked to their neighbors about threats to our democratic process, opposed threats (such as voter intimidation, ballot box tampering), and spread information about the 866-our-vote election protection hotline to maintain a free and fair election for all oregonians. The stand election guide by and for rural oregonians that shared easy-to-understand information on the ballot measures and how to vote in english and spanish was distributed statewide through 25,000 paper copies in all 36 counties, as well as on social media, and community radio stations. Small town & rural oregonians had thousands of conversations about the issues on the ballot in their communities. (continued on schedule o) groups across the state visited businesses, wrote letters, knocked on doors, made phone calls, held ballot parties, & more. Local leaders delivered over 25,000 stand election guides with neighbor-to-neighbor conversations in all 36 counties. We engaged more than 1,000 community members through meeting the moment virtual gatherings to build shared analysis of how to defend and build inclusive democracy.
$248,239 spent$12,265 earned by the program24% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,013,814.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.4M to $1.8M (+27%).
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 6% · 2021 10% · 2022 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of RURAL ORGANIZING PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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 6 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $150k → $671k.
14 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 RURAL ORGANIZING PROJECT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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
RURAL ORGANIZING PROJECT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
40% 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 RURAL ORGANIZING PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 21% · 2019 62% · 2020 19% · 2021 21% · 2022 15% · 2023 24% — 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
41% of RURAL ORGANIZING PROJECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
76% of RURAL ORGANIZING PROJECT's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
RURAL ORGANIZING PROJECT's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 16 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 479 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding RURAL ORGANIZING PROJECT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $55k on record.
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$55k
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 RURAL ORGANIZING PROJECT
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
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Wild River Holdings LLC · disregarded
- Rural Organizing Project Action · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RURAL ORGANIZING PROJECT: 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 RURAL ORGANIZING PROJECT?
- RURAL ORGANIZING PROJECT (Oregon) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,859,429 to it, the largest being MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST ($1,069,578). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RURAL ORGANIZING PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $4,859,429 in grants to RURAL ORGANIZING PROJECT, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RURAL ORGANIZING PROJECT?
- MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,069,578 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RURAL ORGANIZING PROJECT 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 42 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