Indiana · Community foundation
The Portland Foundation
Enhance the quality of life for the people of jay county, indiana, now and for generations to come, by building community endowment, effecting significant impact through grantmaking and providing leadership on key community issues.
- $4.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 19
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $4.2M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $21,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $3,598,456
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 16
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $25M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 38% of the organizations The Portland Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 63% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $696k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 19 | $4.2M | 21% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $1.1M | 38% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $428k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $442k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $240k | 14% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $442k | 56% |
| FY2017 | 4 | $464k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Portland Foundation Building Corporation Inc | $4,181,883 | 2 | 100% |
| Arts Place Inc | $919,345 | 8 | 32% |
| John Jay Center for Learning Inc | $513,737 | 7 | 17% |
| Jay County Fair Association Inc | $313,312 | 5 | 29% |
| Jay County Historical Society Incorporated | $183,500 | 7 | 43% |
| Jay County Boys Club Inc | $102,229 | 2 | 8% |
| Jay County Baseball Club Inc | $75,000 | 1 | 50% |
| A Better Life Briannas Hop | $71,463 | 4 | 38% |
| Jay Patriot Band Boosters Inc | $66,000 | 1 | 61% |
| Jay-Randolph Developmental Services Inc | $63,220 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 24 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($416k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Portland Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Portland Foundation Inc · International Associations of Lions Portland · United Way of Jay County Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Portland Foundation
- How much does The Portland Foundation give?
- The Portland Foundation reported 19 itemized grants totaling $4,189,960, out of $4,534,814 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Portland Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (66%), Arts & Culture (17%), Recreation & Sports (7%).
- Who are The Portland Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Portland Foundation Building Corporation Inc ($4.2M), Arts Place Inc ($919k), John Jay Center for Learning Inc ($514k).
- Does The Portland Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Portland Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Portland Foundation Inc, International Associations of Lions Portland, United Way of Jay County Inc.
- Where is The Portland Foundation based?
- The Portland Foundation is based in IN.
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