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Oregon Sports Action Inc

Development of Olympic Sports in Oregon through financial support to sports organizations.

$195k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Recreation & Sports$637kPhilanthropy$7k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 8 grants below total $159,230 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $195,046 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $35,816 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.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $153k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Oaks Park Community Boathouse$35,000
Portland Bocce League Assoc$30,000
Sport Oregon$25,400
Adaptive Sports Nothwest$25,000
Oregon Sports Hall of Fame$17,100
Portland Lawn Bowling Club$10,000
Obukan Judo Dojo$10,000
PIL Foundation$6,730
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 50% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 8%Oregon Sports Hall of Fame: $40k → 8%Mt Hood Ski Education Found: $30k → 8%Oaks Park Community Boathouse: $35k → 12%Adaptive Sports Nothwest: $36k → 8%Mt Hood Ski Education Found: $25k → 8%Portland Lawn Bowling Club: $10k → 12%Adaptive Sports Nothwest: $35k → 8%Mt Hood Ski Education Found: $15k → 8%Portland Lawn Bowling Club: $6k → 12%Oregon Sports Hall of Fame: $31k → 8%Obukan Judo Dojo: $25k → 12%Adaptive Sports Nothwest: $25k → 8%Obukan Judo Dojo: $10k → 12%Adaptive Sports Nothwest: $20k → 8%Obukan Judo Dojo: $10k → 12%Oregon Sports Hall of Fame: $17k → 8%PIL Foundation: $7k → 12%Adaptive Sports Nothwest: $17k → 8%Obukan Judo Dojo: $10k → 12%Oregon Sports Hall of Fame: $15k → 8%Sport Oregon: $25k → 12%Adaptive Sports Nothwest: $15k → 8%Sport Oregon: $21k → 12%Adaptive Sports Nothwest: $15k → 8%Sport Oregon: $18k → 12%Adaptive Sports Nothwest: $15k → 8%Oregon Sports Authority: $8k → 12%Oregon Sports Hall of Fame: $13k → 8%Portland Bocce League Assoc: $30k → 12%Oregon Sports Hall of Fame: $11k → 8%Portland Bocce League Assoc: $20k → 12%Oregon Sports Hall of Fame: $11k → 8%Oregon Nordic Ski Foundation: $14k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$571k · 7 repeat orgs$73k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
3

Total granted

$571k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+74%

Still filing today

71%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsArts & CulturePublic BenefitOther

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

  • ADAPTIVE SPORTS NORTHWEST
    8× · 2017–2025 · $178k · revenue +61%
  • MH
    MT HOOD SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · $70k · revenue +4%
  • OJ
    Obukan Judo Dojo Inc
    4× · 2021–2025 · $55k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • ON
    Oregon Nordic Ski Foundation
    one grant, 2019 · $14k · revenue -100% · 79% of their budget
  • TU
    TrackTown USA Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +208%
  • OS
    Oregon Sports Authority Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue +74%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Oregon Amateur Sports Foundation

The Oregon Amateur Sports Foundation educates, promotes and provides opportunities for all Oregonians to improve their lives through physical fitness and sports.

2
Xc Oregon

Elite development of cross-country skiers.

Recreation & Sports
3
Oregon Track Club Elite Inc
4
Oregon Association of Rowers

To practice and promote the sport of rowing in the south willamette valley

5
Portland Olympic Club Inc

Training men and women as competitors in World Olympics.

Recreation & Sports
6
Outdoor Sports Foundation

To support young athletes who are training for the Olympics in alpine ski racing

Recreation & Sports
7
Oregon City Swim Team

Organized and operated solely to promote and coach amateur swimmers which includes sponsoring or traveling to swimming competitions.

8
Oregon Interscholastic Snowboard Association

Facilitate Oregon High School Snowboard Team competitions through state championships.

Recreation & Sports
9
Oregon Fencing Alliance

Oregon Fencing Alliance was formed to promote the Olympic sport of Sabre Fencing by providing education, facilities and supplies, as well as competitive opportunities

10
Special Olympics Oregon Inc

Provide sports training and athletic competition for individuals with intellectual disabilities.

11
Oregon Skating Council Inc

To promote amateur figure skating.

Recreation & Sports
12
Frozen Ice Sports

Frozen Ice Sports is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded to provide support and sustainability for ice sports in Lane County.FIS supports local government develop, improve, and maintain public facilities that provide opportunities…

Recreation & Sports

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is State of Oregon Sports Hall of Fame and the most unlike its peers is Obukan Judo Dojo Inc. 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

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 12 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ADAPTIVE SPORTS NORTHWEST — $177,550 · OtherADAPTIVE SPORTS NORTHWESTMT HOOD SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $70,000 · OtherMT HOOD SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATIONOregon Sports Authority — $63,520 · OtherOregon Sports AuthorityPORTLAND BOCCE LEAGUE ASSOCIATION — $50,000 · OtherPORTLAND BOCCE LEAGUE ASSOCIATIONPortland Lawn Bowling Club — $15,850 · OtherOregon Nordic Ski Foundation — $13,799 · Other+1 more — $6,730 · OtherState of Oregon Sports Hall of Fame — $138,624 · Arts & CultureState of Oregon Sports H…Obukan Judo Dojo Inc — $55,000 · Recreation & SportsObukan Judo …TrackTown USA Inc — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsTrackTown US…Oregon Sports Authority Foundation — $7,500 · Recreation & SportsOregon Sport…OAKS PARK COMMUNITY BOATHOUSE — $35,000 · Public Benefit
Other$397,449Arts & Culture$138,624Recreation & Sports$72,500Public Benefit$35,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetADAPTIVE SPORTS NORTHWEST — $177,550 over 8y, 23% of budgetState of Oregon Sports Hall of Fame — $138,624 over 7y, 57% of budgetMT HOOD SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $70,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetOregon Sports Authority — $63,520 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetObukan Judo Dojo Inc — $55,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetOAKS PARK COMMUNITY BOATHOUSE — $35,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetOregon Nordic Ski Foundation — $13,799 over 1y, 79% of budgetTrackTown USA Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA1.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Oregon Sports Action Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2023
202122232425
no gov · 80%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    8get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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