Oregon · Nonprofit
WASTE-FREE ADVOCATES
WASTE-FREE ADVOCATES (Oregon) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $23k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $29k
What Waste-Free Advocates does
Mission
Recycling, waste prevention and advocacy
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Organization informs, educates, and inspires members and the public in recycling and waste prevention efforts through social media, website, newsletter, and direct outreach through tabling and group presentations. Current focus is decreasing single-use take away items and increasing the circular economy in Oregon. Organization reached over 3,800 people on social media, 1,300 people through our newsletter, and 500 people through tabling.
$20,239 spent67% of program spendingMetro Investment and Innovation Grant for Reusable Food Retail Packaging Pilot. Expand the collection of reusable items at public and private transfer stations, in partnership with reuse and repair organizations.
$4,621 spentof which $4,621 as grants15% of program spendingFood waste prevention week event at the PSU farmers' market to help people visualize food waste and to educate about the effects of food waste on the environment.
$2,380 spentof which $2,380 as grants8% of program spendingProduced videos highlighting businesses who had students do environmental projects through the Oregon Applied Sustainability Experience.
$1,680 spentof which $1,680 as grants6% of program spendingMetro Innovation and Innovation Grant for Reusable Coffee Cups. Provide an innovation and convenient reusable cup option for consumers. Project supports the reduction of solid waste and CO2 generated by single-use coffee cups and intends to normalize reuse in our local coffee culture.
$1,088 spentof which $1,088 as grants4% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $30,008.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $31k to $25k (−19%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 WASTE-FREE ADVOCATES’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 WASTE-FREE ADVOCATES's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like WASTE-FREE ADVOCATES
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.
Public support
95%
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 WASTE-FREE ADVOCATES: 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 WASTE-FREE ADVOCATES?
- WASTE-FREE ADVOCATES (Oregon) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WASTE-FREE ADVOCATES have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to WASTE-FREE ADVOCATES.
- Who is the largest funder of WASTE-FREE ADVOCATES?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WASTE-FREE ADVOCATES 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 2022–2025), 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