· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
Five year local option levy for childrens safety services for Clackamas County Oregon
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…
Daycare for children ages 2 1/2 to 9, including a four year old Kindergarten program.
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…
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.
Children's institute's mission is to leverage research, practice, policy, and advocacy to shift systems toward justice for families so that all of oregon's children, prenatal to grade 5, have access to opportunity.
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…
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 484 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Micro Enterprise Services of Oregon funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Micro Enterprise Services of Oregon. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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