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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.

$15M
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$5.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Community Improvement$7.5MArts & Culture$6.4MYouth Development$5.1MEducation$2.8MHousing & Shelter$2.2MCrime & Legal$15kCivil Rights$10kHuman Services$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 32 grants below total $14,945,750, the rows itemized in this filing. The $15,333,815 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $388,065 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $60k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $155k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $461k
  • $250k+12 grants · $14M
$61,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$50M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
OREGON BLACK PIONEERS$500,000
PRISMID INC$500,000
TAKING OWNERSHIP$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%REAP INC: $10k → 12%BRIDGE-PAMOJA: $10k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$16M · 10 repeat orgs$4.2M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
5

Total granted

$16M
$580k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.6M went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementEmploymentHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $5.0M · revenue +10%
  • PH
    PORTLAND HOUSING CENTER
    2× · 2024–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +22% · 25% of their budget
  • ME
    MICRO ENTERPRISE SERVICES OF OREGON
    2× · 2024–2025 · $780k · revenue +132%

Funded once

  • FRIENDS OF IFCC
    one grant, 2024 · $435k · revenue -67% · 72% of their budget
  • PC
    PORTLAND COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT INITIATIVES INC
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
  • W
    WONDERFOLKgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +36%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Black Owned Business Excellence

Help create a more equitable entrepreneurial ecosystem in Washington State.

Community Improvement
2
West Side Connect

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.

Arts & Culture
3
Rainmaker Craft Initiative
Arts & Culture
4
MusicOregon

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Reclaiming Our Greatness

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.

Housing & Shelter
6
Beaverton Black Peoples Union

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…

Education
7
Urban League of Portland Inc

To help empower african americans and others achieve equality in education, employment, and economic security.

Human Services
8
Kukatonon

To inspire confidence, commitment, and vitality amoung children, families, and communities; and to broaden awareness of african and african american cultural traditions throughout oregon.

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9
Jubilee Hall Pdx
Employment
10
Colloqate Design

A justice practice focused on expanding community access to and building power through design of social and cultural spaces.

—
11
Oregon Websites and Watershed Project Inc

Develop educational network to communicate historical and scientific information empasizing natural and cultural resources to pacific northwest.

Environment
12
Oregon Energy Systems Technology and Research
Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Black United Fund of Oregon; 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.
04the grantee network

33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
13/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SELF ENHANCEMENT INC: $5,050,000 · OtherSELF ENHANCEMENT INCALBINA HEAD START INC: $2,500,000 · OtherALBINA HEAD START INC+11 more: $205,750 · OtherALBINA VISION TRUST INC: $4,025,000 · Community ImprovementALBINA VISION TRUST INCWILLIAMS & RUSSELL CDC: $1,612,500 · Community ImprovementWILLIAMS & RUSSELL CDCTaking Ownership: $1,050,000 · Community ImprovementTaking Ownership+1 more: $30,000 · Community ImprovementPORTLAND ART MUSEUM: $2,100,000 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND ART MUSEUMPRISMID INC: $1,050,000 · Arts & CulturePRISMID INCOREGON BLACK PIONEERS CORPORATION: $1,050,000 · Arts & CultureOREGON BLACK PIONEERS CORPO…World Stage Theatre: $550,000 · Arts & CultureWorld Stage TheatreAlbina Music Trust: $527,500 · Arts & CultureAlbina Music TrustFRIENDS OF IFCC: $435,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF IFCC+2 more: $111,000 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND HOUSING CENTER: $2,100,000 · Housing & ShelterPORTLAND …MICRO ENTERPRISE SERVICES OF OREGON: $780,000 · Employment+1 more: $10,000 · EmploymentBLACK UNITED FUND OF OREGON: $557,500 · PhilanthropyBWOB RISING FOUNDATION: $150,000 · EducationLEWIS COLLEGE OF BUSINESS: $125,000 · EducationKnow Agenda Foundation: $20,000 · EducationWONDERFOLK: $20,000 · Education+2 more: $16,500 · Education
Other$7,755,750Community Improvement$6,717,500Arts & Culture$5,823,500Housing & Shelter$2,100,000Employment$790,000Philanthropy$557,500Education$331,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSELF ENHANCEMENT INC: $5,050,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetALBINA VISION TRUST INC: $4,025,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetALBINA HEAD START INC: $2,500,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetPORTLAND ART MUSEUM: $2,100,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetPORTLAND HOUSING CENTER: $2,100,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetWILLIAMS & RUSSELL CDC: $1,612,500 over 2y, 36% of budgetPRISMID INC: $1,050,000 over 2y, 75% of budgetOREGON BLACK PIONEERS CORPORATION: $1,050,000 over 2y, 66% of budgetTaking Ownership: $1,050,000 over 2y, 47% of budgetMICRO ENTERPRISE SERVICES OF OREGON: $780,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetBLACK UNITED FUND OF OREGON: $557,500 over 2y, 21% of budgetWorld Stage Theatre: $550,000 over 2y, 52% of budgetFRIENDS OF IFCC: $435,000 over 1y, 72% of budgetPORTLAND COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT INITIATIVES INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetKnow Agenda Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetWONDERFOLK: $20,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetNORTHEAST COALITION OF NEIGHBORHOODS: $14,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetNAMC OREGON: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetREAP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKAIROSPDX: $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLACK EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT MOVEMENT: $7,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetYOUTH ORGANIZED & UNITED HELP: $6,500 over 1y, 4.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Meyer Memorial TrustThe Collins FoundationThe Oregon Community …Onpoint Community Cre…Seeding JusticeMarie Lamfrom Charita…Umpqua Bank Charitabl…James F & Marion L Mi…Ninety-Nine Girlfrien…OCF Joseph E Weston P…Portland Opportunitie…The Harold & Arlene S…
Meyer Memorial TrustOR56.7× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization 1803 Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from 1803 Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 19%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to 1803 Fund?

Find your warmest path to 1803 Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 35 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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