· Public charity
Micro Enterprise Services of Oregon
Our mission is to elevate the cultural tapestry of under-resourced and excluded entrepreneurs to build resilience and thriving communities through access to capital tailored business assistance and education.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $159k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $2.2M
- $250k+7 grants · $10.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NENES CHILDCARE & LEARNING CENTER LLC (P) | $2,552,898 |
| PUDDLETOWN SCHOOL (P) | $2,540,398 |
| FRIENDLY HOUSE INC (P) | $1,418,530 |
| HIGHER ELEVATIONS LEARNING PLACE INC | $1,083,023 |
| SOLID FOUNDATION ACADEMY (P) | $1,001,659 |
| LEAP PAD DAY CARE | $757,650 |
| YURIS CERTIFIED CHILDCARE | $610,000 |
| MAGIC SHAPES CHILDCARE LLC (P) | $238,000 |
| SELLWOOD BILINGUAL SCHOOL PFA LLC | $219,670 |
| THE PORTLAND MONTESSORI SCHOOL | $192,340 |
| HARMONY MONTESSORI SCHOOL | $180,610 |
| SHEILAS TINEE TOTZ | $176,258 |
| HUMMINGBIRD SCHOOL - NE 18TH | $150,000 |
| COLOR WINGS PRESCHOOL LLC | $141,948 |
| GOATENBERG LLC | $137,520 |
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 (FY22–25, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% 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.
12 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.9M 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
- NCNENES CHILDCARE & LEARNING CENTER LLC (P)2× · 2024–2025 · $2.6M
- PEPEQUEOS EXPLORADORES SPANISH IMMERSION DAYCARE LLC2× · 2023–2024 · $913k
- LPLEAP PAD DAY CARE2× · 2023–2025 · $901k
Funded once
- PDPEQUENITOS DAY CAREone grant, 2023 · $922k
- PPPIONEER PRESCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $872k
- MMMELODY'S MUNCHKINS 2 LLCone grant, 2023 · $818k
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.
Five year local option levy for childrens safety services for Clackamas County Oregon
Daycare for children ages 2 1/2 to 9, including a four year old Kindergarten program.
In 2025, the Children's Discovery Museum (CDM) continued to grow, solidifying its role as a free and accessible educational and recreational resource for families in Cowlitz County and surrounding areas. This year, CDM expanded its…
Holistic enrichment programs for children who are preschool through Grade 8.
Clackamas service center is an inclusive, "one-stop" community center for individuals and families seeking food relief and resources for improved health, dignity, and stability.
Mother & child education center (mcem) is a nonprofit in portland, oregon, providing compassionate, judgment-free support to families navigating pregnancy, parenting, and early childhood. mcec builds strong connections in historically…
Cascades academy is an engaged, vibrant community that weaves challenging academics with experiential learning to inspire socially responsible individuals ready for a diverse and changing world.
Multnomah Playschool's purpose is to provide preschool education through play-based learning with a commitment to celebrating diversity. The school is a parent cooperative preschool providing service to enrolled children ages 3-5 years and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Men's Christian Association of Columbia-Willamette and the most unlike its peers is Working Bikes. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 484 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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: The Contingent · Provider Services Fund · Seeding Justice · Juan Young Trust · The Oregon Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Micro Enterprise Services of Oregon 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.
- Harmony Montessori School Inc — 15% of income from government
- Loveone — 12% of income from government
- The Portland Montessori School — 10% of income from government
- Friendly House Inc — 3% of income from government
- Young Men's Christian Association of Columbia-Willamette — 1% 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.