· Public charity
1803 Fund
To establish a resilient financial ecosystem that supports the long-term well-being of portland's black community by investing in education, preserving cultural heritage and fostering community via long-term grant funding, partnerships and investments.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2024–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 32 grants below total $14,945,750 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $15,333,815 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $388,065 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $155k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $461k
- $250k+12 grants · $14M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SELF ENHANCEMENT INC | $5,000,000 |
| ALBINA HEAD START | $2,500,000 |
| ALBINA VISION TRUST INC | $1,800,000 |
| PORTLAND ART MUSEUM | $1,000,000 |
| PORTLAND HOUSING CENTER | $1,000,000 |
| ALBINA MUSIC TRUST | $527,500 |
| TAKING OWNERSHIP | $500,000 |
| OREGON BLACK PIONEERS | $500,000 |
| PRISMID INC | $500,000 |
| MICRO ENTERPRISE SERVICES OF OREGON | $380,000 |
| WILLIAMS & RUSSELL CDC | $312,500 |
| WORLD STAGE THEATRE | $250,000 |
| A10L VENTURES LLC DBA BLACK WOMEN ON BOARDS | $150,000 |
| BME COMMUNITY | $125,000 |
| LEWIS COLLEGE OF BUSINESS | $125,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
10 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.6M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
SELF ENHANCEMENT INC2× · 2024–2025 · $5.0M · revenue +10%- PHPORTLAND HOUSING CENTER2× · 2024–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +22% · 25% of their budget
- MEMICRO ENTERPRISE SERVICES OF OREGON2× · 2024–2025 · $780k · revenue +132%
Funded once
FRIENDS OF IFCCone grant, 2024 · $435k · revenue -67% · 72% of their budget- PCPORTLAND COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT INITIATIVES INCone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
- WWONDERFOLKgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +36%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Help create a more equitable entrepreneurial ecosystem in Washington State.
To foster bridges of care, uniting and empowering Black, Indigenous, and Pacific Islander communities in the West Portland Metro Area through education, mentorship, and cultural advocacy.
MusicOregon supports Oregons independent music creators and related professionals through artistic, cultural, educational, and public interest programs. We are committed to empowering creative musical excellence, promoting professional…
Reclaiming Our Greatness's mission is to create transformative outcomes for the families we serve by providing proactive case management coupled with creative resource development.
The Beaverton Black People's Union is a volunteer-led collective of families and individuals organized to create community, advocate for culturally relevant resources, and ultimately support the success and well-being of our children and…
To help empower african americans and others achieve equality in education, employment, and economic security.
To inspire confidence, commitment, and vitality amoung children, families, and communities; and to broaden awareness of african and african american cultural traditions throughout oregon.
A justice practice focused on expanding community access to and building power through design of social and cultural spaces.
Develop educational network to communicate historical and scientific information empasizing natural and cultural resources to pacific northwest.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Black United Fund of Oregon and the most unlike its peers is World Stage Theatre. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 9 years old; the field is 17. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 23% of your grantees by number, and just 21% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 35 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SELF ENHANCEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds ALBINA VISION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds ALBINA HEAD START INC ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND HOUSING CENTER ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMS & RUSSELL CDC ↗
- Who funds OREGON BLACK PIONEERS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PRISMID INC ↗
- Who funds Taking Ownership ↗
- Who funds MICRO ENTERPRISE SERVICES OF OREGON ↗
- Who funds BLACK UNITED FUND OF OREGON ↗
- Who funds World Stage Theatre ↗
- Who funds Albina Music Trust ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF IFCC ↗
- Who funds BWOB RISING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEWIS COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds LION SPEAKS ↗
- Who funds All Ages Music Portland dba Friends of Noise ↗
- Who funds BUILT OREGON ↗
- Who funds Know Agenda Foundation ↗
- Who funds WONDERFOLK ↗
- Who funds One World Chorus ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST COALITION OF NEIGHBORHOODS ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE POMOJA ↗
- Who funds REAP INC ↗
- Who funds NAMC OREGON ↗
- Who funds KAIROSPDX ↗
- Who funds PANORAMA GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds ELSO INC ↗
- Who funds WORD IS BOND ↗
- Who funds BLACK EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT MOVEMENT ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ORGANIZED & UNITED HELP ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Meyer Memorial Trust · The Collins Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Onpoint Community Credit Union · Seeding Justice · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation · James F & Marion L Miller Foundation · Ninety-Nine Girlfriends · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Portland Opportunities Indust Center · The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization 1803 Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Elso Inc — 100% of income from government
- Black Educational Achievement Movement — 100% of income from government
- Albina Head Start Inc — 81% of income from government
- Reap Inc — 46% of income from government
- Williams & Russell Cdc — 38% of income from government
- Portland Community Reinvestment Initiatives Inc — 36% of income from government
- Kairospdx — 19% of income from government
- Portland Housing Center — 19% of income from government
- Self Enhancement Inc — 14% of income from government
- Micro Enterprise Services of Oregon — 5% of income from government
- Youth Organized & United Help — 3% of income from government
- All Ages Music Portland dba Friends of Noise — 1% of income from government
- Portland Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Black United Fund of Oregon — 1% of income from government
- Oregon Black Pioneers Corporation — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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