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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Public Benefit$669kCivil Rights$668kEnvironment$225kEducation$104kArts & Culture$88kHousing & Shelter$75kYouth Development$50kHuman Services$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
FAMILY FORWARD ACTION$25,000
350 DESCHUTES$25,000
HERE TOGETHER$25,000
TIDES ADVOCACY FORMERLY THE ADVOCACY FUND$25,000
OREGON INTERFAITH MOVEMENT FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE$25,000
ASHLAND CLIMATE COLLABORATIVE$25,000
TIDES FOUNDATION$25,000
NORTHWEST HEALTH FOUNDATION FUND LL$20,000
OREGON ALLIANCE FOR GUN SAFETY FOUNDATION$20,000
02The need
03

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 (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 its 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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OR
CA
CO
NM
SC
DC
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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%
  • WF
    WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $32k · revenue +42%
How this is measured

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

04Its 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
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.

—
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
—
12
Oregonians in Action Legal Center

To protect constitutional rights of landowners.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Apano; 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.
04the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 46 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetCOMMON CAUSE: $70,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetOregon Alliance to Prevent Gun Violence: $70,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetSOUTHERN OREGON CLIMATE ACTION NOW: $60,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetOREGON PROGRESSIVE FUND INC: $55,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetASHLAND CLIMATE COLLABORATIVE: $50,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetOREGON RURAL ACTION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetFAMILY FORWARD ACTION: $50,000 over 2y, 7.6% 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 budgetWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC: $32,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND INC: $32,250 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCOLOROFCHANGEORG: $32,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPEOPLE'S ACTION: $32,250 over 1y, 1.6% 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 budgetRogue Climate: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNEW PROGRESSIVE NETWORK: $10,000 over 1y, 8.5% 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
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.

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

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 Portland Regional Educational Telecommunications Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Portland Regional Educational Telecommunications Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 170%6%23%51%90%funder's 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
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.
05Through Plinth

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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 46 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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