Oregon · Nonprofit
The Motherline
The Motherline (Oregon) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,500 to it, the largest being ROBERT AND FRANCES CHANEY FAMILY FOUNDATION ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $18k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $3k
- Net assets
- $9k
What The Motherline does
Mission
The Motherline engenders a culture of repair and restoration by empowering women to cultivate a place based planet protective economy through arts agriculture youth education and inter-generational connection. Our youth programs RiverStars and Cultivate Kids teach rural youth of all ages skills in dance theater movement and agriculture. We hold community events such as our Clean Sweep trash clean up on public lands and educate around positive land stewardship. We are a newly formed non profit but our youth programs RiverStars and Cultivate Kids have been fiscally sponsored by other organizations in past years providing free beneficial and educational activities to rural youth and their families in under resourced Josephine County.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
RiverStars & Planet Dance provide art dance movement and theater intergenerational and youth classes in Josephine County Oregon free of charge to remove barriers to the high population of low income families in our region. These classes take place September through April on Fridays filling the empty space created when our local school district cut the 5th day from the school week. From April though September we provide educational programming for youth at Cultivate Kids a program that we operate at the local farmers market. These programs teach skills provide meaningful educational activities and programming and help our youth connect to the place they are living.
$5,825 spentof which $6,600 as grants100% of program spendingThe Clean Sweep is a program to clean up trash in local public lands and teach intergenerational skills for caretaking and land stewardship to our community. We host a monthly clean up day and invite volunteers to hike in beautiful places while we clean up trash that has been dumped illegally and return our public lands to useful spaces for our local population and tourists to enjoy. We also work on educational information and campaigns to help prevent future dumping and encourage a culture of care in the Illinois Valley of Josephine County. 50 plus local volunteers join in each clean ups and we feed them lunch. We provide free trash vouchers to the local family coalition to encourage people to dump their trash in appropriate designated facilities. Note: This program along with our youth programs was fiscally sponsored by a different organization for part of 2025 and the revenue and expenses that all of our programs operate on will be higher in 2026 as many expenses that we will pay in 2026 were paid by another organization in 2025 while we went through the process of applying for 501c3 status and setting up our non profit.
$0 spentof which $5,000 as grants0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $5,825.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Cindy Palacios
Board President and Co-Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of The Motherline’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.
Where its funders are
100% of The Motherline's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
The Motherline runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,787 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like The Motherline
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In Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Motherline: 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 The Motherline?
- The Motherline (Oregon) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,500 to it, the largest being ROBERT AND FRANCES CHANEY FAMILY FOUNDATION ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Motherline have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,500 in grants to The Motherline.
- Who is the largest funder of The Motherline?
- ROBERT AND FRANCES CHANEY FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Motherline 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 1 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