Oregon · Nonprofit
THE OREGON LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS
THE OREGON LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS (Oregon) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,280,250 to it, the largest being LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC ($1,927,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $835k
What The Oregon League of Conservation Voters does
Mission
The Oregon League of Conservation Voters builds public support for environmental legislation, encourages lawmakers to pass laws that protect our natural legacy, holds all our elected officials accountable for their stances on key environmental issues, and works to help elect pro- environment candidates.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Communications, outreach, direct lobbying, indirect lobbying, nonpartisan voter participation, and ballot iniaitives program services and salaries for The Oregon League of Conservation Voters civic engagement and accountability activities including outreach, public communications, coalition-building, and grasstops/grassroots development to build public support for legislation and encourage lawmakers to pass laws which protect our natural legacy.
$266,041 spent35% of program spendingEngagement/membership program services and salaries for The Oregon League of Conservation Voters activities to develop local environmental leadership, engagement and activism through our local leadership committees.
$479,561 spent64% of program spendingPolitical activities political activities for The Oregon League of Conservation Voters, including advocacy of behalf of pro-conservation candidates.
$9,214 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $754,816.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $97k to $264k (+171%).
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.
93% of THE OREGON LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Paige Spence
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $16k → $472k.
From the IRS filings of THE OREGON LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS’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.
How concentrated its funding is
THE OREGON LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 THE OREGON LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 100% · 2019 68% · 2020 76% · 2021 93% · 2022 84% · 2023 78% — 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
43% of THE OREGON LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
THE OREGON LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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 OREGON LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like THE OREGON LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- The Oregon League of Conservation · exempt
- The Oregon League of Conservation · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE OREGON LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS: 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 LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS?
- THE OREGON LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS (Oregon) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,280,250 to it, the largest being LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC ($1,927,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE OREGON LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $2,280,250 in grants to THE OREGON LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE OREGON LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS?
- LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,927,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE OREGON LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS 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 8 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