· Public charity
Oregon Sports Authority Foundation
Oregon Sports Authority Foundation intends to raise funds for amature athletic and sporting organizations within the state of oregon and to give under-privileged youth opportunities to play sports.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $121,485 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $141,859 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $20,374 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 · FY2023
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $116k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF BASEBALL | $27,000 |
| ADELANTE MUJERES | $25,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS OREGON INC | $16,575 |
| ADAPTIVE SPORTS NORTHWEST | $15,160 |
| PORTLAND TENNIS & EDUCATION | $12,250 |
| BRIDGE CITY SOCCER ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| GIRLS ON THE RUN | $10,000 |
| MAURICE LUCAS FOUNDATION | $5,500 |
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 (FY23–23, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
Develop young people for the challenges and opportunities of life through the game of soccer.
PacNW offers top-level soccer training and development opportunities for players aged U8 through U19, all of whom are trained using the club's deliberate, integrated, long-term plan for player development.
The Albany Berkeley Girls Softball League offers recreational and competitive fastpitch softball for players in kindergarten through 9th grade. We are a nonprofit, all-volunteer league focused on providing a positive athletic experience…
Portland Community Squash (PCS) aims to build an accessible community center that holistically supports and unites its members. We envision a community with enough social and human capital to overcome everchanging societal challenges and…
Northwest water polo club is an educational organization that teaches. leadership, teamwork, and water polo to athletes of all ages and skill levels in the seattle area. nwpc is the premier seattle area water polo club. it is a nonprofit…
To promote the growth of tennis through engaging children, adults, and families in every neighborhood.
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…
North Portland Soccer Clubs mission is to serve our diverse community through building interest in youth soccer and making it more accessible. We provide a safe and fun environment for players to develop skills that help them find…
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…
To help children develop skills necessary for success in school and life through learning chess.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls on the Run of Portland Metro Dba Girls on the Run of Greater Oregon and the most unlike its peers is Charity Navigator. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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.
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 FRIENDS OF BASEBALL ↗
- Who funds ADELANTE MUJERES ↗
- Who funds Charity Navigator ↗
- Who funds ADAPTIVE SPORTS NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND TENNIS & EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Girls on the Run of Portland Metro DBA Girls on the Run of Greater Oregon ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE CITY SOCCER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MAURICE LUCAS 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 · Multnomah Athletic Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · The Jackson Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Oregon Sports Authority 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
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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