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Oregon Coalition Against

Portland, OR · EIN 93-0739389. Reported 46 grants totalling $1,095,354 to 31 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

31organizations funded
$18,594median reported grant
$1,095,354granted, 2020-2024
42%of grantees funded again the next year
9%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Oregon Coalition Against, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P020) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 31 distinct organizations, with 9% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 42% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $18,594. Half of what it reported fell between $9,323 and $23,525; the smallest was $5,830 and the largest $75,919. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
12 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
24 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
3 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
7 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Heart of Grant CountyJohn Day, OR$95,919222024
Bradley AnglePortland, OR$81,037222022
Tides of ChangeTillamook, OR$75,919112020
Clackamas Womens ServicesOregon City, OR$74,659112020
Haven From Domestic ViolenceThe Dalles, OR$74,659112020
Safe of Columbia CountySaint Helens, OR$74,659112020
Klamath Crisis CenterKlamath Falls, OR$73,022112020
Micronesian Islander CommunitySalem, OR$64,920552024
Center Against Rape and Domestic ViolenceCorvallis, OR$52,594222022
Community Works IncMedford, OR$51,500222023
The Harbor IncAstoria, OR$39,655222024
AycoPortland, OR$30,000222023
Jackson County SartAshland, OR$26,956332022
Shelter From the StormLa Grande, OR$25,250222023
My Sisters PlaceNewport, OR$24,397112020
Brown Girl RisePortland, OR$21,457222024
Mayday IncBaker City, OR$21,437112020
Helping Hands Against Violence IncHood River, OR$20,028112020
Illinois Valley Safehouse AllianceCave Junction, OR$20,000112024
Peace at Home Advocacy CenterRoseburg, OR$20,000112024
Native American Youth and Family CenterPortland, OR$19,669112020
The Immigrant and Refugee Community OrganizationPortland, OR$18,700112022
Oasis Shelter HomeGold Beach, OR$18,505112020
StorycenterBerkeley, CA$16,000112020
Sexual Assault Support ServicesEugene, OR$14,995222022
El Programa Hispano CatolicoGresham, OR$7,657112020
Safe HarborsEnterprise, OR$7,644112020
Sexual Assault Resource CenterBeaverton, OR$6,116112020
Bridges OregonSalem, OR$6,000112021
Handicap Awareness & Support League IncGrants Pass, OR$6,000112021
Self Enhancement IncPortland, OR$6,000112021

11 of 31 (35%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 23 of 31 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Human Services
13 orgs
Mental Health
4 orgs
Arts & Culture
2 orgs
Youth Development
2 orgs
Crime & Legal
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202020$727,907$20,732
20216$44,758$6,333
20229$139,742$15,000
20235$81,624$15,000
20246$101,323$20,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

99% of its giving went to organizations in Oregon. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Oregon
$1.1M
California
$16K

Down to the city

Portland, OR
$177K
John Day, OR
$96K
Tillamook, OR
$76K
Oregon City, OR
$75K
The Dalles, OR
$75K
Saint Helens, OR
$75K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

The Oregon Community Foundation25 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc12 shared recipientsThe Ford Family Foundation11 shared recipientsThe Collins Foundation11 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund11 shared recipientsMarie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation10 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $18,594 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Oregon.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Oregon Coalition Against's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 6 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 9320 Sw Barbur Blvd 250, Portland, OR, 97219.

EIN 93-0739389 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded.

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