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BASIC RIGHTS OREGON

EIN 93-1108531 PORTLAND, OR

Revenue 2024
$377,166
Expenses 2024
$237,805

Program services were 62.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
Classification
3000
Street
PO BOX 40625

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

BASIC RIGHTS OREGON WILL ENSURE THAT ALL LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDER OREGONIANS EXPERIENCE EQUALITY BY BUILDING A BROAD AND INCLUSIVE POLITICALLY POWERFUL MOVEMENT, SHIFTING PUBLIC OPINION, AND ACHIEVING POLICY VICTORIES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO ENSURE THAT ALL LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDER OREGONIANS EXPERIENCE EQUALITY.

  • Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

    Expenses $11,739 · Grants $124

  • ELECTORAL CANDIDATE WORK: THE BASIC RIGHTS OREGON EQUALITY PAC SEEKS TO END DISCRIMINATION BASED ON SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND GENDER IDENTITY IN OREGON BY ELECTING PRO-EQUALITY CANDIDATES TO ALL LEVELS OF OFFICE AND ELEVATING OUT LGBTQ CANDIDATES WHENEVER POSSIBLE. WE ARE A NON-PARTISAN POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE FOCUSED ON STATEWIDE AND LEGISLATIVE OFFICES. OUR VOLUNTEER PAC BOARD MEMBERS INTERVIEW CANDIDATES AND ISSUE ENDORSEMENTS TO ELECTED LEADERS AND HOPEFULS WHO ARE DEDICATED CHAMPIONS FOR EQUALITY. OUR ENDORSEMENT CRITERIA SPANS BASIC RIGHTS OREGON'S PROGRAM PRIORITIES, INCLUDING RACIAL JUSTICE AND JUSTICE FOR TRANSGENDER OREGONIANS.IN 2022 BRO ALSO WORKED WITH LOCAL ADVOCATES AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO ELECT SCHOOL BOARD REPRESENTATIVES WHO WOULD CREATE AFFIRMING ENVIRONMENTS FOR LGBTQ+ STUDENTS.

    Expenses $99,433 · Grants $14,568

  • CIVIC ENGAGEMENT WORK: BUILDING POLITICAL POWER FOR LGBTQ OREGONIANS HAS LONG BEEN A CORE OBJECTIVE FOR BASIC RIGHTS. TO THAT END, NONPARTISAN CIVIC ENGAGEMENT CONTINUES TO BE A KEY STRATEGY AS WE WORK TO SECURE LEGAL EQUALITY BY PASSING LEGISLATION, MOBILIZE LGBTQ OREGONIANS AND THEIR ALLIES TO INFLUENCE DECISION MAKERS AND BUILD COALITIONS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO LASTING, VIBRANT MOVEMENTS FOR LGBTQ JUSTICE AND PROGRESSIVE ORGANIZING. FUNDAMENTAL TO BASIC RIGHTS' WORK IS A PRINCIPLED COMMITMENT TO PARTNERSHIPS AMONG THOSE, OUR DECADES-LONG VALUES-BASED COLLABORATIONS WITH RACIAL AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE ORGANIZATIONS.

    Expenses $33,828

  • RACIAL JUSTICE WORK: SINCE 2007, BASIC RIGHTS HAS WORKED TO COUNTERACT OPPOSITION STRATEGIES PITTING COMMUNITIES OF COLOR AGAINST LGBTQ COMMUNITIES. WE WORK TO CENTER THE LEADERSHIP OF PEOPLE OF COLOR, LARGELY THROUGH OUR ONGOING OUR FAMILIES PROGRAM FOR LGBTQ AND ALLIED PEOPLE OF COLOR. WE CONTINUE TO BE KEY PUBLIC ALLIES, INVESTING STAFF TIME AND RESOURCES IN CAMPAIGNS TO ADDRESS XENOPHOBIA AND POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY. IN 2017 WE DEEPENED OUR LONG-TERM ALLIANCE WITH KEY COMMUNITY PARTNERS ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN NETWORK OF OREGON (APANO), UNITE OREGON, AND OREGON VOICE TO FORM ONE OREGON, A STATEWIDE COALITION THAT DEFENDS AGAINST ANTI-IMMIGRANT AND ANTI-MUSLIM POLICIES AND BALLOT MEASURES AND WORKS TO ENSURE THAT ALL OREGONIANS, REGARDLESS OF COUNTRY OF BIRTH, ARE TREATED WITH DIGNITY AND RESPECT.

    Expenses $3,301 · Grants $32

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • KYNDALL MASON

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $150,979
    From this org
    $143,269
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,710
    Hours/week
    8 + 32 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $143,269
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $7,710
    Filer's total
    $150,979

  • MCKEE TODD ADDAMS

    DEPUTY DIRECTOR THROUGH 06/2024

    Total calculated
    $70,183
    From this org
    $66,328
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,855
    Hours/week
    15.3 + 24.7 related

  • JACKIE YERBY

    BOARD CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • ROWAN EVERARD

    BOARD CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • AL MACHEMEHL

    BOARD TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • BETSY NATTER

    BOARD TREASURER STARTING 03/2024

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BROOK SHELLY

    BOARD SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • ROBIN MARIL

    BOARD SECRETARY STARTING 05/2024

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • SALLY HSU

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DANA COFFMAN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CARLISLE PEARSON

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARIAN HAMMOND

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SALLY HSU

    MEMBER - EQUALITY PAC

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DANITA HARRIS

    MEMBER - EQUALITY PAC

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KRIS ELLIOT

    MEMBER - EQUALITY PAC

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ANDRES OSWILL

    MEMBER - EQUALITY PAC

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SCOTT VIGNOS

    MEMBER - EQUALITY PAC

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • EVELYN KOCHER

    MEMBER - EQUALITY PAC

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SHANI HARRIS BAGWELL

    MEMBER - EQUALITY PAC

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG

    MEMBER - EQUALITY PAC

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ANDRES OSWILL

    MEMBER - EQUALITY PAC

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $377,166
    Expenses
    $237,805
    Contributions
    $172,526
    Grants paid
    $14,723
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $345,495
    Expenses
    $408,516
    Contributions
    $179,311
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $419,805
    Expenses
    $528,835
    Contributions
    $299,255
    Grants paid
    $93,550

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $253,368
    Expenses
    $180,755
    Assets (EOY)
    $222,545

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $426,184
    Expenses
    $387,829
    Assets (EOY)
    $148,625

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $382,595
    Expenses
    $413,207
    Assets (EOY)
    $100,150

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $311,475
    Expenses
    $496,754
    Assets (EOY)
    $117,585

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $263,076
    Expenses
    $458,874
    Assets (EOY)
    $167,228

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $254,175
    Expenses
    $483,649
    Assets (EOY)
    $224,379

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $296,683
    Expenses
    $338,657
    Assets (EOY)
    $384,404

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $647,526
    Expenses
    $545,274
    Assets (EOY)
    $413,805

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $664,699
    Expenses
    $804,828
    Assets (EOY)
    $375,153

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $334,932
    Assets (EOY)
    $476,552

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

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Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Not present in the most recent drop.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.