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World Affairs Council of Oregon dba WorldOregon
World Affairs Council of Oregon dba WorldOregon (Oregon) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,289,493 to it, the largest being GLOBAL TIES US ($1,195,207). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $948k
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $236k
What World Affairs Council of Oregon dba WorldOregon does
Mission
The mission of WorldOregon is to engage Oregonians with the world and broaden public awareness and understanding of international affairs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
International Visitors Programs-The Organization coordinates professional visits and training programs to Oregon for approximately 250-500 current and emerging leaders from around the world each year. These visitors are top business, professional, cultural, and youth leaders, and promising emerging leaders. They are connected with their professional counterparts in Oregon for meetings, or come for week to month-long professional trainings. The visitors come through high-profile programs such as the U.S. Department of States International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP), as well as other smaller programs. While IVLP participants stay in hotels, the remaining groups often stay with local volunteer host families. The International Visitors Program enables cross-cultural conversations and facilitates professional knowledge exchange between Oregonians and the world.
$407,366 spent$318,994 earned by the program58% of program spendingGlobal Classroom-The Global Classroom includes Culture Boxes and Young Leaders in Action, and some years teacher professional development training and working with international youth exchange programs led by the International Visitor Program. The Global Classroom enables K-12 educators to teach about the world by connecting them with materials, people, and creative learning resources, such as library of over 100 Culture Boxes, supplementary online materials, lesson plans, and classroom curriculum. An Education Advisory Council helps provide teacher input to this work. The Young Leaders in Action program includes approximately 15 students annually from Portland metro area high schools who engage in leadership training, execute action plans and serve as ambassadors to their schools. The Organization also some years hosts approximately 25-50 high school leaders annually from all over the world through U.S. Department of State youth leadership programs. These international youth engage with area youth leaders and stay with local volunteer host families in ofter their first exposure to international travel and U.S. culture.
$133,579 spent$37,670 earned by the program19% of program spendingGlobal Conversations-The Organizaton sponsors public programs featuring experts on international issues who engage in spirited Q&A with the audience. The Organization conducts annually the Great Decisions series on the eight most critical foreign policy issues facing the U.S., high level thought leaders and authors speaking on the issues of the day, and virtual programs in coordination with the World Affairs Councils of America network.
$105,171 spent$31,325 earned by the program15% of program spendingLarger Public Programs-As of Global Conversations, the Organization hosts VIP speakers (journalists, authors, policymakers, thought leaders, etc.) is special venues for larger public audiences. A successor to the International Speaker Series, the Organization has pivoted to one-off talks instead of a series.
$60,976 spent$8,043 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $707,092.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $895k to $544k (−39%).
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 26% · 2019 46% · 2020 23% · 2021 44% · 2022 45% · 2023 43% · 2024 37% · 2025 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of World Affairs Council of Oregon dba WorldOregon’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Steven Stapp
Board of Trustees Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $244k → $461k.
7 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $500k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Meridian International Center). These are real filings, and they are not money World Affairs Council of Oregon dba WorldOregon raised.
From the IRS filings of World Affairs Council of Oregon dba WorldOregon’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
World Affairs Council of Oregon dba WorldOregon leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 World Affairs Council of Oregon dba WorldOregon.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 70% · 2019 48% · 2020 70% · 2021 30% · 2022 70% · 2023 70% — growing more concentrated.
“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
73% of World Affairs Council of Oregon dba WorldOregon's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
World Affairs Council of Oregon dba WorldOregon draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $141k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Against its field
World Affairs Council of Oregon dba WorldOregon's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 13 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding World Affairs Council of Oregon dba WorldOregon receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15k on record.
- AGENCY PROGRAM RELATED SERVICES$8k
- DUES/MEMBERSHIPS$7k
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 World Affairs Council of Oregon dba WorldOregon
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
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 World Affairs Council of Oregon dba WorldOregon: 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 World Affairs Council of Oregon dba WorldOregon?
- World Affairs Council of Oregon dba WorldOregon (Oregon) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,289,493 to it, the largest being GLOBAL TIES US ($1,195,207). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does World Affairs Council of Oregon dba WorldOregon have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $2,289,493 in grants to World Affairs Council of Oregon dba WorldOregon, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of World Affairs Council of Oregon dba WorldOregon?
- GLOBAL TIES US is the largest funder on record, with $1,195,207 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like World Affairs Council of Oregon dba WorldOregon 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 23 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