Oregon Council for the Humanities
Portland, OR · EIN 93-0716419. Reported 97 grants totalling $1,022,083 to 83 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, 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. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 83 distinct organizations, with 3% 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.
- How much its list changes. 8% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 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 $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $7,500 and $14,100; the smallest was $5,075 and the largest $20,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Comunidad Y Herencia Cultural | Springfield, OR | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Bridgeworks Oregon | Portland, OR | $27,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The Red Door Project | Portland, OR | $25,000 | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| Wallowa Band Nez Perce Trail Interpretive Center Inc | Wallowa, OR | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Vanport Mosaic | Portland, OR | $24,738 | 3 | 2 | 2021 |
| Chehalem Center Association | Newberg, OR | $22,630 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Profile Theatre Project | Portland, OR | $22,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Albany Regional Museum Corporation | Albany, OR | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Miracle Theatre Group | Portland, OR | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Skanner Foundation | Portland, OR | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| St Vincent De Paul | Salem, OR | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Triangle Productions | Portland, OR | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Burns Paiute Tribe | Burns, OR | $19,800 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Eastern Oregon Regional Arts Council Inc | La Grande, OR | $19,800 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Campus Compact of Oregon | Portland, OR | $17,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Japanese American Museum of Oregon | Portland, OR | $17,500 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education | Portland, OR | $17,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rural Organizing Project | Cottage Grove, OR | $17,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Immigrant Story | Portland, OR | $17,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Kxcj-Lp | Cave Junction, OR | $16,925 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Anima Mundi Productions | Phoenix, OR | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Disability Art and Culture Project | Portland, OR | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Drexel H Foundation | Vale, OR | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Jim Pepper Native Arts Festival Jim Pepper Native Arts Council | Portland, OR | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Juneteenth Or | Gresham, OR | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Maxville Heritage Interpretive Center | Enterprise, OR | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Oregon Black Pioneers Corporation | Portland, OR | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Portland Chinatown History Foundation | Portland, OR | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Salem Art Association | Salem, OR | $14,750 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Harney County Library Foundation | Burns, OR | $14,100 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Northwest Documentary Arts & Media | Portland, OR | $13,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Media-Rites | Portland, OR | $12,800 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Natives of One Wind Indigenous Alliance | Medford, OR | $12,750 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Portland Playhouse | Portland, OR | $12,690 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| The Josephy Center for Arts and Culture | Enterprise, OR | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Black Cultural Initiative | Eugene, OR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Coalicion Fortaleza | Medford, OR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Coos County Historical Society | Coos Bay, OR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Fishtrap Inc | Enterprise, OR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Friends of the Baker Heritage Museum | Baker City, OR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Friends of the Cascade Locks Historical Museum | Cascade Locks, OR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Future Prairie Inc | Manzanita, OR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hood River County Heritage Council | Hood River, OR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lincoln City Cultural Center Inc | Lincoln City, OR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mid-Valley Literacy Center | Salem, OR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Oregon Remembrance Project | Portland, OR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Portland Indigenous Marketplace | Portland, OR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rogue Action Center | Phoenix, OR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Singing Creek Educational Center | Eugene, OR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Hearth | Ashland, OR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| UC-Veg | Roseburg, OR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| World Arts Foundation Inc | Portland, OR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Natives of One Wind Indigeneous Alliance | Ashland, OR | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Episcopal Diocese of Eastern Oregon 601 Union | Cove, OR | $8,695 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Community Alliance of Lane County | Eugene, OR | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Conexion Fenix | Lincoln City, OR | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| League of Women Voters of Oregon | Salem, OR | $8,152 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Arts Council of Pendleton | Pendleton, OR | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Curry Coast Community Radio | Brookings, OR | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Educate Ya Inc | Portland, OR | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Father S Group | Redmond, OR | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Garibaldi Museum Inc | Garibaldi, OR | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Historic Alberta House | Portland, OR | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Jackson County Community Services Consortium Inc | Medford, OR | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Josephine County Historical Society | Grants Pass, OR | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Kxcr Community Radio Partners | Florence, OR | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Nurturely | Eugene, OR | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Oregon Coast Council of the Arts | Newport, OR | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Oregon Progress Forum | Portland, OR | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Southern Oregon Film Society | Ashland, OR | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Astoria Visual Arts Inc | Astoria, OR | $7,090 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Springfield Public Library Foundation Inc | Springfield, OR | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rasika Society for Arts of India | Portland, OR | $6,375 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Newport Public Library Foundation Inc | Newport, OR | $6,263 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Womens Civic Improvement League | Bend, OR | $6,250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| City of Toledo | Toldedo, OR | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lane Arts Council | Eugene, OR | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Obrien Memorial Library | Blue River, OR | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Corvallis Multicultural Literacy Center | Corvallis, OR | $5,600 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Josephy Center for Arts and Culture | Joseph, OR | $5,300 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Rogue Valley Mentoring | Medford, OR | $5,200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| CASA Latinos Unidos De Benton County | Corvallis, OR | $5,100 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Bosco-Milligan Foundation | Portland, OR | $5,075 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
12 of 83 (14%) 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 kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 64 of 83 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 10 | $71,533 | $7,500 |
| 2021 | 64 | $772,903 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 12 | $85,642 | $7,500 |
| 2023 | 11 | $92,005 | $8,500 |
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
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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 $10,000 -- 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 Council for the Humanities's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 11 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: 610 Sw Alder St 1111, Portland, OR, 97205.
EIN 93-0716419 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
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