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The Portland Foundation Inc

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.

$4.3M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
12
Itemized grants FY2024
16
Organizations funded FY2023
38%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$3.9M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$23,196
Largest grant, FY2024
$3,598,456
Organizations funded a year
8 to 16
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$26M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 38% of the organizations The Portland Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’23
HealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureEnvironmentAnimalsOther
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
FY2024still arriving12$3.9M17%
FY202316$253k38%
FY202111$209k27%
FY20208$191k13%
FY201910$354k20%
FY201810$148k50%
FY20178$188kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$3.8MReligion$461kRecreation & Sports$352kArts & Culture$195kHealth$166kHuman Services$158kPhilanthropy$27kYouth Development$27kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Portland Foundation$3,598,456173%
Jay County Boys Club Inc$210,35388%
John Jay Center for Learning Inc$129,11584%
Jay County Fair Association Inc$123,999820%
Arts Place Inc$117,69566%
Jay County School Corp$71,7213n/a
A Better Life Briannas Hop$63,537440%
Indiana University Health Jay Inc$62,30820%
West Jay Community Center Inc$62,279619%
Jay-Randolph Developmental Services Inc$61,32270%
Show all 21 grantees
All grantees of The Portland Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Portland Foundation$3,598,456173%
Jay County Boys Club Inc$210,35388%
John Jay Center for Learning Inc$129,11584%
Jay County Fair Association Inc$123,999820%
Arts Place Inc$117,69566%
Jay County School Corp$71,7213n/a
A Better Life Briannas Hop$63,537440%
Indiana University Health Jay Inc$62,30820%
West Jay Community Center Inc$62,279619%
Jay-Randolph Developmental Services Inc$61,32270%
Jay County Drug Prevention Coalition Inc$40,60323%
Jay County Historical Society Incorporated$38,425417%
United Way of Jay County Inc$26,950113%
Kansas Center for Entrepreneurship Inc$21,5001n/a
JAY COUNTY 4th OF JULY COMMITTEE INC$20,000351%
Dunkirk Historical Society Inc$18,5701n/a
Pennville Community Gym Inc$17,8151n/a
Jay County 4-H Club Inc$15,870214%
Jay County Robotics$7,0001n/a
Jay County Conservation Club Inc$6,5001n/a
Jay County Humane Society Inc$6,03429%

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($524k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Portland Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Portland Foundation: $3,598,456 over 1y, 73% of budgetJay County Boys Club Inc: $210,353 over 8y, 7.6% of budgetJohn Jay Center for Learning Inc: $129,115 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetJay County Fair Association Inc: $123,999 over 8y, 20% of budgetArts Place Inc: $117,695 over 6y, 6.2% of budgetA Better Life Briannas Hop: $63,537 over 4y, 40% of budgetIndiana University Health Jay Inc: $62,308 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWest Jay Community Center Inc: $62,279 over 6y, 19% of budgetJay-Randolph Developmental Services Inc: $61,322 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetJay County Drug Prevention Coalition Inc: $40,603 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetJay County Historical Society Incorporated: $38,425 over 4y, 17% of budgetUnited Way of Jay County Inc: $26,950 over 1y, 13% of budgetJAY COUNTY 4th OF JULY COMMITTEE INC: $20,000 over 3y, 51% of budgetJay County 4-H Club Inc: $15,870 over 2y, 14% of budgetJay County Humane Society Inc: $6,034 over 2y, 8.7% 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 15.

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 Portland FoundationIN32.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Portland Foundation · International Associations of Lions Portland · 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.

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Find your warmest path to The Portland Foundation Inc 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.

About The Portland Foundation Inc

How much does The Portland Foundation Inc give?
The Portland Foundation Inc reported 12 itemized grants totaling $3,901,837, out of $4,341,952 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Portland Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (73%), Religion (9%), Recreation & Sports (7%).
Who are The Portland Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Portland Foundation ($3.6M), Jay County Boys Club Inc ($210k), John Jay Center for Learning Inc ($129k).
Does The Portland Foundation Inc 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 Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Portland Foundation, International Associations of Lions Portland, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Portland Foundation Inc based?
The Portland Foundation Inc is based in IN.

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 27 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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