· Public charity
Building Power for Communities of Color
BUILDING POWER FOR COMMUNITIES OF COLOR (bpcc) is affiliated with the coalition of communities of color (ccc), a 501(c)(3) coalition of 19 culturally specific member organizations.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of BUILDING POWER FOR COMMUNITIES OF COLOR’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $300k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOBILIZE OREGON VOTES | $250,000 |
| NEXT UP ACTION FUND | $75,000 |
| LATINO NETWORK ACTION FUND | $75,000 |
| WASHINGTON COUNTY IGNITE ACTION FUND | $75,000 |
| EAST COUNTY RISING ACTION FUND | $75,000 |
| APANO ACTION FUND | $25,000 |
| ACCION POLITICA PCUNISTA | $25,000 |
| PEOPLE'S INDEPENDENT COMMISSION | $10,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
Support measure to bring ranked choice voting to Oregonians
Next up amplifies the voice and leadership of diverse young people to achieve a more just and equitable oregon.
Support ballot measure
Promote economic and social fairness by working in coalition open a broad range of issues and activities in the public arena
unite oregon action works across urban and rural divides to build a unified political, intercultural movement for justice in oregon. we are led by people of color, immigrants and refugees, rural communities, and people experiencing poverty.
Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…
Support state ballot measure
Support passage of state ballot Measure 112
Connect immigrants to legal, social, and interpretation services.
Support passage of Portland City Charter reform
The jewish coalition builds a jewish voice in the pacific northwest advancing immigrant justice and domestic policy, following the leadership of impacted community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Apano and the most unlike its peers is People's Independent Commission. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 11 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 Mobilize Oregon Votes ↗
- Who funds NEW PROGRESSIVE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds EAST COUNTY RISING ACTION FUND ↗
- Who funds Latino Network Action Fund ↗
- Who funds COALITION OF COMMUNITIES OF COLOR ↗
- Who funds Latino Network ↗
- Who funds ACCION POLITICA PCUNISTA DBA PCUN ↗
- Who funds APANO ↗
- Who funds People's Independent Commission ↗
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: Northwest Health Foundation · Northwest Health Foundation Fund II · Portland Regional Educational Telecommunications Corporation · Progressive Multiplier Fund · Seeding Justice
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 Building Power for Communities of Color 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.
- Latino Network — 15% of income from government
- Coalition of Communities of Color — 15% 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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