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Self Enhancement Inc

Self enhancement, inc. (sei) is dedicated to providing opportunity for all youth to realize their full potential. Working with schools, families and partner community organizations, sei provides support, guidance, and opportunities to achieve personal and academic success. Sei brings hope to individual young people and enhances the…

$7.4M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Itemized grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2020
100%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Itemized, FY2025
$1.8M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$233,079
Largest grant, FY2025
$807,467
Organizations funded a year
1 to 3
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$54M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 100% of the organizations Self Enhancement Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20
Human ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving8$1.8M88%
FY20201$33k100%
FY20192$35k0%
FY20183$98k100%
FY20172$645kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$1.7MEducation$458kYouth Development$296kPhilanthropy$74kHousing & Shelter$65kEnvironment$34kCivil Rights$33k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Self Enhancement Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Latino Network$807,46712%
The Sei Academy$435,865149%
Urban League of Portland Inc$365,11131%
Metropolitan Family Service$285,09912%
The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization$233,07910%
Neighborhood House Inc$208,93713%
Native American Youth and Family Center$86,70110%
United Way of the Columbia-Willamette$73,52010%
Portland Community Reinvestment Initiatives Inc$65,00020%
Camp Fire Columbia$33,83811%
Imagine Black Futures$32,55714%
Together We Are Greater Than$22,18811%
Fmyi Inc$7,5001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Self Enhancement Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLatino Network: $807,467 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetThe Sei Academy: $435,865 over 1y, 49% of budgetUrban League of Portland Inc: $365,111 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetMetropolitan Family Service: $285,099 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetThe Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization: $233,079 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNeighborhood House Inc: $208,937 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetNative American Youth and Family Center: $86,701 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUnited Way of the Columbia-Willamette: $73,520 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPortland Community Reinvestment Initiatives Inc: $65,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCamp Fire Columbia: $33,838 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetImagine Black Futures: $32,557 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetTogether We Are Greater Than: $22,188 over 1y, 1.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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 Collins FoundationOR21.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Collins Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · United Way of the Columbia-Willamette · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Careoregon Inc · Juan Young Trust · Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Worksystems Inc · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust

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.

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About Self Enhancement Inc

How much does Self Enhancement Inc give?
Self Enhancement Inc reported 8 itemized grants totaling $1,847,003, out of $7,375,972 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does Self Enhancement Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (64%), Education (17%), Youth Development (11%).
Who are Self Enhancement Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Latino Network ($807k), The Sei Academy ($436k), Urban League of Portland Inc ($365k).
Does Self Enhancement Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Self Enhancement Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Collins Foundation, Meyer Memorial Trust, United Way of the Columbia-Willamette.
Where is Self Enhancement Inc based?
Self Enhancement Inc is based in OR.

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 13 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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