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THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (Oregon) receives grants from 224 organizations whose IRS filings report $141,511,744 to it, the largest being The Ford Family Foundation ($17,454,615). 106 of them have funded it in more than one year. THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.

Revenue FY2024
$294M
Funders on record
224
Grants received
$142M
Net assets
$3.2B
106/224 repeat funders

Hosts funds for others

THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programTHE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.

Paid out

$1.3B

Recipients

4,168

Contributions on record

$142M

Donors on record

223

Payments out run 8.8x the contributions on record, which says the incoming side is incomplete rather than that the vehicle is unusually busy: most donors to a fund like this are individuals, who file no return for us to read.

01The 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($169M) Expenses 100 ($117M) Net assets 100 ($1.9B)2018 Revenue 77 ($130M) Expenses 108 ($126M) Net assets 96 ($1.8B)2019 Revenue 137 ($232M) Expenses 121 ($141M) Net assets 117 ($2.2B)2020 Revenue 210 ($355M) Expenses 193 ($225M) Net assets 136 ($2.6B)2021 Revenue 247 ($417M) Expenses 282 ($329M) Net assets 160 ($3.0B)2022 Revenue 114 ($193M) Expenses 155 ($181M) Net assets 144 ($2.7B)2023 Revenue 114 ($193M) Expenses 209 ($244M) Net assets 155 ($2.9B)2024 Revenue 174 ($294M) Expenses 192 ($223M) Net assets 172 ($3.2B)
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Revenue (174)Expenses (192)Net assets (172)

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 $2.6B to $3.1B (+17%).

$1.9B
$1.9B
$2.3B
$2.6B
$3.1B
$2.8B
$3.0B
$3.3B
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2020 48% · 2021 23% · 2022 26%. 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.

$52M
’17
$4.1M
’18
$91M
’19
$130M
’20
$88M
’21
$12M
’22
−$52M
’23
$70M
’24
12
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

Nancy Bales

Executive Director - Gray Family Foundation

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 33 funders to 74 funders, grant income rose $6.5M → $10M.

39 of 224 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 224 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.

Where its funders are

64% of THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Oregon funders.

AK
WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
SD
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MD
DE
AZ
KS
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

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

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

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $29M arriving through sponsors registered in 23 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.

03Its place in the field

Government funding THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $287.0M on record.

State$287.0M
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Top programs
  • DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$170.8M
  • DISTRIBUTION TO OTHER GOVERNMENTS$56.1M
  • DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$47.1M
  • AGENCY PROGRAM RELATED SERVICES$6.6M
  • PAYMENTS TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$6.0M
  • OTHER SUPPLIES$131k

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.

04Profile & 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 8%Fundraising 2%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

86%

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

Part of a family of 22 related entities

  • OCF Permira LLC · disregarded
  • OCF Properties I LLC · disregarded
  • OCF Properties II LLC · disregarded
  • OCF Properties III LLC · disregarded
  • OCF Properties IV LLC · disregarded

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: 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 OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION?
THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (Oregon) receives grants from 224 organizations whose IRS filings report $141,511,744 to it, the largest being The Ford Family Foundation ($17,454,615). 106 of them have funded it in more than one year. THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
How many funders does THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 224 organizations giving $141,511,744 in grants to THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, 106 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION?
The Ford Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $17,454,615 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 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 224 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