Oregon · Nonprofit
Special Olympics Oregon Inc
Special Olympics Oregon Inc (Oregon) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,698,138 to it, the largest being SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ($5,631,099). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.6M
- Funders on record
- 82
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $5.4M
What Special Olympics Oregon Inc does
Mission
Provide sports training and athletic competition for individuals with intellectual disabilities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Special olympics oregon provides year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of olympic-type sports for children, youth and adults living with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy, and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills, and friendship with their families, other special olympics athletes, and the community.key accomplishments for 2024 included:unified champion schools- 119 unified champion schools engaged in 2023-24 school year- ucs basketball competitions with 46 unified high school and middle school teams - lake oswego hs receive ucs banner recognition- west salem hs received espn honor roll - ~6,000 students participated in unified sports (basketball, soccer, track, kickball, pe class) and55,000 students in oregon were exposed to ucs activities and events2024 winter season- 6 regional basketball tournaments with 103 teams and 1,310 delegates- 3 regional powerlifting competitions with over 245 delegates 2024 summer season- 11 regional games (4 athletics, 3 bocce, 2 golf, 2 softball) - 745 delegates for athletics- 550 delegates for bocce- 261 delegates for golf…
$3,358,284 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,358,284.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $2.1M to $3.4M (+60%).
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 7% · 2022 5% · 2023 10% · 2024 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Britt Carlson-Oase
CEO
Board chair
Butch Pollard
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 21 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $645k → $2.2M.
15 of 82 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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: $28k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Legacy Health). These are real filings, and they are not money Special Olympics Oregon Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Special Olympics Oregon Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 82 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
Special Olympics Oregon Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
86% 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 Special Olympics Oregon Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 45% · 2019 59% · 2020 50% · 2021 57% · 2022 57% · 2023 45% — 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
27% of Special Olympics Oregon Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
Special Olympics Oregon Inc draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 22 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.
Government funding Special Olympics Oregon Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.4M on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$875k
- DISTRIBUTION TO OTHER GOVERNMENTS$500k
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 Special Olympics Oregon 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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 Special Olympics Oregon 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 Special Olympics Oregon Inc?
- Special Olympics Oregon Inc (Oregon) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,698,138 to it, the largest being SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ($5,631,099). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Special Olympics Oregon Inc have?
- IRS filings report 82 organizations giving $11,698,138 in grants to Special Olympics Oregon Inc, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Special Olympics Oregon Inc?
- SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,631,099 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Special Olympics Oregon 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.
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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 82 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