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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.

$142k
Granted FY2023
8
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$27k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01FY2023 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $121,485, the rows itemized in this filing. The $141,859 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $20,374 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $116k
$15,160
Median grant
1
States reached
$151k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
GIRLS ON THE RUN$10,000
BRIDGE CITY SOCCER ACADEMY$10,000
MAURICE LUCAS FOUNDATION$5,500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SPECIAL OLYMPICS OREGON INC: $17k → 8%ADELANTE MUJERES: $25k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

1
Portland Youth Soccer Association

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…

Recreation & Sports
2
Fc Portland Soccer Academy

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.

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3
United Pdx Soccer Club

Develop young people for the challenges and opportunities of life through the game of soccer.

Recreation & Sports
4
Pacific Northwest Soccer Club

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.

Recreation & Sports
5
Albany Berkeley Girls Softball League

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…

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6
Portland Community Squash

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…

Recreation & Sports
7
Oregon Adaptive Sports

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…

Recreation & Sports
8
Absolute Blast Elite Youth Training and Playing Association

The organization annually fields highly competitive fastpitch teams at various age levels, with the end goal of placing our athletes in collegiate programs nationwide. By providing a safe and secure environment that aims to inspire and…

Recreation & Sports
9
Northwest Water Polo Club

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…

Recreation & Sports
10
North Portland Soccer Club

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…

Recreation & Sports
11
Eugene Rowing Club

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…

Recreation & Sports
12
Usta-Pacific Northwest Section

To promote the growth of tennis through engaging children, adults, and families in every neighborhood.

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How this is measured
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; 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.
03the grantee network

8 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ADELANTE MUJERES: $25,000 · Human ServicesADELANTE MUJERESCharity Navigator: $16,575 · Human ServicesCharity NavigatorFRIENDS OF BASEBALL: $27,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF BASEBALLMAURICE LUCAS FOUNDATION: $5,500 · Youth DevelopmentMAURICE LUCAS FOUNDATIONPORTLAND TENNIS & EDUCATION: $12,250 · Recreation & SportsPORTLAND TENNIS & EDUCATIONGirls on the Run of Portland Metro DBA Girls on the Run of Greater Oregon: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsGirls on the Run of Portland M…BRIDGE CITY SOCCER ACADEMY: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsBRIDGE CITY SOCCER ACADEMYADAPTIVE SPORTS NORTHWEST: $15,160 · OtherADAPTIVE SPORT…
Human Services$41,575Youth Development$32,500Recreation & Sports$32,250Other$15,160

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIENDS OF BASEBALL: $27,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetADELANTE MUJERES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCharity Navigator: $16,575 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetADAPTIVE SPORTS NORTHWEST: $15,160 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetPORTLAND TENNIS & EDUCATION: $12,250 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGirls on the Run of Portland Metro DBA Girls on the Run of Greater Oregon: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBRIDGE CITY SOCCER ACADEMY: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetMAURICE LUCAS FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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.

The Oregon Community …Multnomah Athletic Fo…The Autzen FoundationThe Jackson FoundationMarie Lamfrom Charita…Dick's Sporting Goods…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Oregon Community FoundationOR17× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Oregon Sports Authority Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Oregon Sports Authority Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 31%
  • Adelante Mujeres: 31% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
3report 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Oregon Sports Authority Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Oregon Sports Authority Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 8 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $118k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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