· Public charity
Multnomah Athletic Foundation
To provide community grants for youth athletic activites and to provide scholarships for student athletes based on need and/or merit.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 15 grants below total $97,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $266,276 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $169,276 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GIRLS ON THE RUN OF PORTLAND METRO | $7,000 |
| AC PORTLAND | $7,000 |
| FRIEND OF EXPLORER POST 58 | $7,000 |
| ADAPTIVE SPORTS NORTHWEST | $7,000 |
| COMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL | $7,000 |
| ELITE SPORTS ACADEMY | $7,000 |
| PORTLAND TENNIS & EDUCATION | $7,000 |
| NORTHWEST DISABILITY SUPPORT | $6,000 |
| NORTHWEST ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND ATHLETES | $6,000 |
| CHILDREN'S COURSE INC | $6,000 |
| REBORN BIKES (WASHCO BIKES) | $6,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BASEBALL | $6,000 |
| STEPS FOR YOUTH | $6,000 |
| PORTLAND COMMUNITY FOOTBALL CLUB | $6,000 |
| LIFE EXPANDING ADVENTURE PROGRAM | $6,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 58% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 8 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, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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
- ESElite Sports Academy5× · 2020–2025 · $35k · revenue +248%
- PCPARROTT CREEK CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES4× · 2020–2023 · $31k · revenue +633%
ADAPTIVE SPORTS NORTHWEST4× · 2020–2025 · $29k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- SHSPECIAL HOOP CAMP INCORPORATEDone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +8%
KAIROSPDXone grant, 2021 · $7k · revenue +4%- BCBRIDGE CITY SOCCER ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue +26%
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.
To provide the youth of Portland area communities with the opportunity to experience the joy and thrill of soccer in a player centered environment. The main focus is on FUN and DEVELOPMENT with age appropriate training and coaching where…
Fc portland is an inclusive, community-minded, world-class development club which, through the best overall coach and player soccer programs, provides youth with personal growth, on and off the field.
Eugene Rowing Club strives to build a team-oriented program. Our student athletesdevelop personal character, time management skills, an ethic of cooperation, and physical fitness with a team culture of crew and rowing. Athletes learn to…
David Douglas Soccer Club, Inc is a volunteer-led, non profit organization offering recreational soccer opportunities for players in in K though 8th grade The recreation program is designed for players to continue learning the basic skills…
Develop young people for the challenges and opportunities of life through the game of soccer.
Portland activities & athletics league (paal) builds partnerships among youth, the law enforcement community, service professionals, and the community at large. paal fosters an environment of safety, trust and belonging as we inspire youth…
Oregon adaptive sports exists to provide life-changing outdoor recreation experiences to individuals with physical and cognitive disabilities and concurrently to provide their families with the education and skills to enjoy these…
Flow provides the mentorship, resources, and community support that allow young athletes to thrive across every field, court and classroom. Our purpose at Flow Athletics is to prepare the next generation of student-athletes for life on and…
To help children develop skills necessary for success in school and life through learning chess.
Our mission and purpose is to empower our players to be successful tomorrow. our goal is to teach young athletes fundamental football skills while building character, confidence, integrity, sportsmanship, and work ethic.
Apex is dedicated to enriching the lives of youth through hands-on activities and outdoor adventure, while fostering meaningful mentorships in an environment where every child feels safe and valued.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ac Portland and the most unlike its peers is Inner City Basketball. 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 19 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 27 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 Elite Sports Academy ↗
- Who funds PARROTT CREEK CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ADAPTIVE SPORTS NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BASEBALL ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE OREGON ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND COMMUNITY FOOTBALL CLUB ↗
- Who funds AC PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds ADELANTE MUJERES ↗
- Who funds INNER CITY BASKETBALL ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER WE ARE GREATER THAN ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL HOOP CAMP INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Girls on the Run of Portland Metro DBA Girls on the Run of Greater Oregon ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND TENNIS & EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds KAIROSPDX ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF EXPLORER POST 58 ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE CITY SOCCER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CAMP FIRE COLUMBIA ↗
- Who funds Steps For Youth ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST DISABILITY SUPPORT ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY BICYCLE TRANSPORT ↗
- Who funds PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED ↗
- Who funds LIFE EXPANDING ADVENTURE PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS COURSE INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON YOUTH SAILING FOUNDATION ↗
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 Oregon Community Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Collins Foundation · The Jackson Foundation · Juan Young Trust · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Silver Family Foundation · Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund
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 Multnomah Athletic Foundation 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.
- Adelante Mujeres — 31% of income from government
- Elevate Oregon — 28% of income from government
- Parrott Creek Child and Family Services — 20% of income from government
- Kairospdx — 19% of income from government
- Ac Portland — 14% of income from government
- Community Transitional School — 7% of income from government
- Together We Are Greater Than — 5% of income from government
- Steps for Youth — 2% 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.