Oregon · Nonprofit
Wisdom of the Elders Incorporated
Wisdom of the Elders Incorporated (Oregon) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,851,869 to it, the largest being NoVo Foundation ($450,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Wisdom of the Elders Incorporated runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundationshared funderslocal
- Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company Foundationportfolio match
- Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.
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: 2018 38% · 2019 22% · 2020 20% · 2021 4% · 2022 12% · 2023 17% · 2024 15% · 2025 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of Wisdom of the Elders Incorporated’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $66k → $497k.
2 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 Wisdom of the Elders Incorporated’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 27 of 29 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
Wisdom of the Elders Incorporated has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 26% · 2019 37% · 2020 39% · 2021 38% · 2022 23% · 2023 26% — 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
38% of Wisdom of the Elders Incorporated'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
56% of Wisdom of the Elders Incorporated's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $82k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 29 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundationshared funderslocalOR · backs 159 organizations that share your funders · funds 313 organizations near you
- Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Na'ah Illahee Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Johnson Charitable Trustshared fundersOR · backs 33 organizations that share your funders
- Ndn Collective Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- James and Shirley Rippey Family Foundationshared fundersOR · backs 29 organizations that share your funders
- Restoring Lifewaysportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Illuminative Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vadon Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Indian Land Tenure Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Prbb Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding Wisdom of the Elders Incorporated receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $334k on record — $300k federal, $34k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$100k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$100k
- Department of Agriculture$100k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$34k
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 Wisdom of the Elders Incorporated
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Wisdom of the Elders Incorporated: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Wisdom of the Elders Incorporated?
- Wisdom of the Elders Incorporated (Oregon) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,851,869 to it, the largest being NoVo Foundation ($450,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Wisdom of the Elders Incorporated have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $1,851,869 in grants to Wisdom of the Elders Incorporated, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Wisdom of the Elders Incorporated?
- NoVo Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $450,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Wisdom of the Elders Incorporated 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 29funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing