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Portland Regional Educational Telecommunications Corporation

PORTLAND REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION operates for "charitable, scientific and education and "social welfare" purposes within the meaning of sections 501(c)3 and 501(c)4, respectively, of the internal revenue code.

$524k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0164% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Civil Rights$408kArts & Culture$189kCommunity Improvement$176kHuman Services$160kEnvironment$150kPublic Benefit$75kEducation$42kPhilanthropy$31kHealth$20kOther$748k
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k17 grants · $424k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$7.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VOTE NO ON GERRYMANDERING$50,000
THIS LAND$50,000
LINN UNITED PAC$45,000
RURAL ORGANIZING PROJECT$44,000
NEXT UP ACTION FUND$40,000
SOUTHERN OREGON CLIMATE ACTION NOW$30,000
TIDES FOUNDATION$25,000
FAMILY FORWARD ACTION$25,000
350 DESCHUTES$25,000
TIDES ADVOCACY FORMERLY THE ADVOCACY FUND$25,000
ASHLAND CLIMATE COLLABORATIVE$25,000
HERE TOGETHER$25,000
OREGON INTERFAITH MOVEMENT FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE$25,000
OREGON ALLIANCE FOR GUN SAFETY$20,000
NORTHWEST HEALTH FOUNDATION FUND LL$20,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $160k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OUR OREGON: $30k → 12%OUR OREGON: $15k → 12%HERE TOGETHER: $25k → 12%HERE TOGETHER: $25k → 12%NEXT UP ACTION FUND: $40k → 12%NEXT UP ACTION FUND: $25k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OR
CA
CO
NM
SC
DC

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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 16 repeat orgs$704k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +65% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
19

Total granted

$1.3M
$405k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
0%

Still filing today

100%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $299k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Civil RightsCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesPublic 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

  • TA
    TIDES ADVOCACY
    6× · 2019–2025 · $189k · revenue +75%
  • H
    HERETOGETHER
    2× · 2024–2025 · $115k · revenue +2%
  • BP
    BUILDING POWER FOR COMMUNITIES OF COLOR
    5× · 2019–2023 · $113k · revenue +865% · 25% of their budget

Funded once

  • SS
    SAFE SCHOOLS SAFE COMMUNITIES OREGON
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • OR
    OREGON RURAL ACTION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +16%
  • C
    COLOROFCHANGEORG
    one grant, 2021 · $32k · revenue -68%

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 Justice Network

Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…

Human Services
2
Oregon Center for Public Policy

The oregon center for public policy's mission is to achieve economic justice for all oregonians through research, analysis, and advocacy. ocpp works to change policies that foster economic security and stability for all oregonians. we do…

Employment
3
American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon Inc

We believe that the freedoms of press, speech, assembly, and religion, and the rights to due process, equal protection and privacy, are fundamental to a free people. We advance civil liberties and civil rights by activities that include…

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4
Rogue Action Center

Our mission is to grow organizing power and leaders for a more just and thriving Southern Oregon.

Community Improvement
5
350PDX

Building a diverse grassroots movement to address the causes of climate disruption through justice-based solutions by inspiring, training and mobilizing people to act.

Environment
6
Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility

Guided by the values and expertise of health care and public health, Oregon PSR works to protect human life from the gravest threats to health & survival

Environment
7
Priority Oregon

To support public policies that will help oregon's economy and create new family supporting jobs in oregon.

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8
Oregonians in Action

Land Use Issues

Environment
9
Causa of Oregon

Causa works to improve the lives of latino immigrants and their families through advocacy, leadership development, civic engagement and coalition building. latino immirgants and their families are the heart of causa and inspire, implement…

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10
Northwest Progressive Institute

The Northwest Progressive Institute is a social welfare organization working to raise everyone's equality of life through insightful research and imaginative advocacy. NPI's projects and publications promote policy development based on…

Civil Rights
11
Earth Day Oregon
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12
Oregonians in Action Legal Center

To protect constitutional rights of landowners.

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Apano and the most unlike its peers is Human Rights Advocates of Coos County. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 20 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%3%<5yr13%19%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr19%42%20–35yr12%8%35–55yr16%3%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%3%<5yr13%27%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr19%42%20–35yr12%5%35–55yr16%4%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/46
the rest of the field
11%
2,771/25,385

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.

04the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 46 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/41
Grantees still filing
24/41
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TIDES ADVOCACY — $189,420 · OtherTIDES ADVOCACYUNITE OREGON ACTION — $89,050 · OtherUNITE OREGON ACTIONCOMMON CAUSE — $70,000 · OtherCOMMON CAUSESAFE SCHOOLS SAFE COMMUNITIES OREGON — $50,000 · OtherSAFE SCHOOLS SAFE COMMUNITIES OREGONTHIS LAND — $50,000 · OtherTHIS LANDVOTE NO ON GERRYMANDERING — $50,000 · OtherVOTE NO ON GERRYMANDERINGLINN UNITED PAC — $45,000 · OtherLINN UNITED PACPUBLIC COMMUNICATORS INC — $38,600 · OtherCOLOROFCHANGEORG — $32,250 · OtherCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND INC — $32,250 · Other+11 more — $195,000 · Other+11 moreBUILDING POWER FOR COMMUNITIES OF COLOR — $112,640 · Civil RightsBUILDING POWER FOR COMM…Oregon Alliance to Prevent Gun Violence — $70,000 · Civil RightsOregon Alliance to Prev…OREGON PROGRESSIVE FUND INC — $55,000 · Civil RightsOREGON PROGRESSIVE FUND…IMAGINE BLACK — $46,590 · Civil RightsIMAGINE BLACKRURAL ORGANIZING PROJECT — $44,000 · Civil RightsRURAL ORGANIZING PROJEC…WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC — $32,250 · Civil RightsWORKING FAMILIES ORGANI…Oregon Interfaith Movement for Immigrant Justice — $25,000 · Civil RightsOregon Interfaith Movem…+4 more — $23,000 · Civil Rights+4 moreACCION POLITICA PCUNISTA DBA PCUN — $100,745 · Arts & CultureACCION POL…APANO — $88,210 · Arts & CultureAPANOLatino Network Action Fund — $90,460 · Community ImprovementLatino Ne…FAMILY FORWARD ACTION — $50,000 · Community ImprovementFAMILY FO…PEOPLE'S ACTION — $32,250 · Community ImprovementPEOPLE'S …+1 more — $3,000 · Community ImprovementHERETOGETHER — $115,000 · Human ServicesHERETOGET…OUR OREGON — $45,000 · Human ServicesOUR OREGO…SOUTHERN OREGON CLIMATE ACTION NOW — $60,000 · EnvironmentASHLAND CLIMATE COLLABORATIVE — $50,000 · EnvironmentBeyond Toxics — $30,000 · EnvironmentOREGON PROGRESS FORUM — $10,000 · EnvironmentOREGON RURAL ACTION INC — $50,000 · Public Benefit350 DESCHUTES 350Deschutes — $25,000 · Public Benefit
Other$841,570Civil Rights$408,480Arts & Culture$188,955Community Improvement$175,710Human Services$160,000Environment$150,000Public Benefit$75,000

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$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTIDES ADVOCACY — $189,420 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHERETOGETHER — $115,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetBUILDING POWER FOR COMMUNITIES OF COLOR — $112,640 over 5y, 25% of budgetACCION POLITICA PCUNISTA DBA PCUN — $100,745 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetUNITE OREGON ACTION — $89,050 over 4y, 65% of budgetAPANO — $88,210 over 4y, 18% of budgetOregon Alliance to Prevent Gun Violence — $70,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE — $70,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTHERN OREGON CLIMATE ACTION NOW — $60,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetOREGON PROGRESSIVE FUND INC — $55,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetFAMILY FORWARD ACTION — $50,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetASHLAND CLIMATE COLLABORATIVE — $50,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetOREGON RURAL ACTION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetIMAGINE BLACK — $46,590 over 2y, 10% of budgetRURAL ORGANIZING PROJECT — $44,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetPUBLIC COMMUNICATORS INC — $38,600 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCOLOROFCHANGEORG — $32,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND INC — $32,250 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPEOPLE'S ACTION — $32,250 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC — $32,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBeyond Toxics — $30,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budget350 DESCHUTES 350Deschutes — $25,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetCOMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF LANE COUNTY — $25,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetOregonians United Against Profiling — $20,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetNEW PROGRESSIVE NETWORK — $10,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetRogue Climate — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetOregon Student Association — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCATES OF COOS COUNTY — $7,000 over 1y, 75% of budgetCAPITA SOCIAL INC — $6,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetWAY TO WIN ACTION FUND INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPROTEUS ACTION LEAGUE — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Seeding JusticeInstructional Telecom…United Way of the Col…The Collins FoundationMeyer Memorial TrustNorthwest Health Foun…Northwest Health Foun…The Oregon Community …Service Employees Int…Chicago Instructional…Inatai FoundationSixteen Thirty Fund
Seeding JusticeOR33.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seeding Justice · Instructional Telecommunications Foundation Inc · United Way of the Columbia-Willamette · The Collins Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Northwest Health Foundation · Northwest Health Foundation Fund II · The Oregon Community Foundation · Service Employees International Union · Chicago Instructional Technology Foundation Inc · Inatai Foundation · Sixteen Thirty 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 Portland Regional Educational Telecommunications Corporation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 170%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Northwest Health Foundation Fund Ii — 81% of income from government
  • Southern Oregon Climate Action Now — 30% of income from government
  • Beyond Toxics — 13% of income from government
  • Rogue Climate — 7% of income from government
  • Community Alliance of Lane County — 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
17get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Portland Regional Educational Telecommunications Corporation?

Find your warmest path to Portland Regional Educational Telecommunications Corporation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 46 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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