Oregon Consumer Justice
Portland, OR · EIN 82-0850234. Reported 67 grants totalling $22.9M to 59 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
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:
- What kind of organization it is. For Oregon Consumer Justice, the IRS classifies it under crime & legal rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE I83) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 59 distinct organizations, with 79% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is extreme concentration. A grantmaker sending three quarters of its money to one organization is in practice a support fund for that organization, whatever its classification says, and an unsolicited request is very unlikely to go anywhere.
- How much its list changes. 13% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $45,000. Half of what it reported fell between $20,000 and $100,000; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $9,062,184. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ocj Law | Portland, OR | $18.1M | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of Oregon | Eugene, OR | $1,200,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Apano Communities United Fund | Portland, OR | $300,000 | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| Native American Youth and Family Center | Portland, OR | $300,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Bienestar Inc | Hillsboro, OR | $225,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Centro Cultural De Condado De Washington | Cornelius, OR | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rogue Action Center | Phoenix, OR | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Center for Intercultural Organizing | Portland, OR | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Coalition of Communities of Color | Portland, OR | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Suma | Portland, OR | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Willamette Valley Law Project | Woodburn, OR | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| National Consumer Law Center Inc | Boston, MA | $105,000 | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| (naral) Pro-Choice Oregon | Portland, OR | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Latino Network | Portland, OR | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Latino Community Association | Bend, OR | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Urban League of Portland | Portland, OR | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Portland Community Reinvestment Initiatives Inc | Portland, OR | $65,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Neighborhood Partnerships Inc | Portland, OR | $57,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| El Programa Hispano Catolico | Gresham, OR | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Fund for Portland Public Schools | Portland, OR | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Klamath Housing Authority | Klamath Falls, OR | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Natives of One Wind Indigenous Alliance | Medford, OR | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Neighborimpact | Redmond, OR | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Oregon Chinese Coalition | Portland, OR | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rogue Climate | Phoenix, OR | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Somali American Council of Oregon | Portland, OR | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Springfield Eugene Tenant Association | Eugene, OR | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hacienda Community Development Corporation | Portland, OR | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Micronesian Islander Community | Salem, OR | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| National Association of Consumer Advocates Inc | Washington, DC | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Clackamas Womens Services | Oregon City, OR | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Arc Jackson County | Medford, OR | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Rosewood Initiative | Portland, OR | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Blanchet House of Hospitality | Portland, OR | $36,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Estacada Area Food Bank | Estacada, OR | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Odyssey World Internationaleducation Services | Vancouver, WA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Umpqua Community Development Corporation | Roseburg, OR | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| First Church Love | Portland, OR | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| African American Alliance for Home Ownership Inc | Portland, OR | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Dignity Village | Portland, OR | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hollywood Senior Center | Portland, OR | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Sudan Nation | Portland, OR | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Black Mental Health Oregon | Gresham, OR | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Bridge Africa Organization | Portland, OR | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Raphael House of Portland | Portland, OR | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Street Roots | Portland, OR | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Bridges to Change Inc | Portland, OR | $15,783 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Brookings-Harbor Community Helpers Inc | Brookings, OR | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| American Leadership Forum of Oregon | Portland, OR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Black United Fund of Oregon Inc | Portland, OR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cannon Beach Academy | Cannon Beach, OR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Civics Learning Project | Portland, OR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Corvallis Neighborhood Housing Services Inc | Springfield, OR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Oregon Consumer League | Portland, OR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Oregon Recovers | Portland, OR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Somali American Maay Community of Oregon | Portland, OR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Southwest Somali Community | Portland, OR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Vina Moses Welfare Center Inc | Corvallis, OR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Old Mill Center for Children and Families Inc | Corvallis, OR | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
4 of 59 (7%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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.
- Native American Youth & Center
EVICTION & FORECLOSURE RESPONSE; CONSUMER ADVOCACY - Bienestar
EVICTION, FORECLOSURE RESPONSE; CONSUMER ADVOCACY - Unite Oregon
EVICTION RESPONSE & CONSUMER ADVOCACY - Hacienda Community Development Corporation
EVICTION & FORECLOSURE RESPONSE - National Consumer Law Center
CONSUMER LAW EDUCATION & ACCESS
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 46 of 59 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 58 | $3,905,783 | $45,000 |
| 2022 | 5 | $340,000 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 2 | $9,362,184 | $4,681,092 |
| 2024 | 2 | $9,311,799 | $4,655,899 |
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.
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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 the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- 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.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $45,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Oregon.
- 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 Consumer Justice's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 1 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 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: 3055 Nw Yeon Avenue 1336, Portland, OR, 97210.
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