· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $3,901,837 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,341,952 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $440,115 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k9 grants · $190k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $114k
- $250k+1 grant · $3.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE PORTLAND FOUNDATION TRUST | $3,598,456 |
| JAY SCHOOL CORPORATION | $57,298 |
| IU HEALTH JAY HOSPITAL | $56,283 |
| ARTS PLACE | $34,481 |
| JOHN JAY CENTER FOR LEARNING | $23,499 |
| JAY COMMUNITY CENTER | $23,196 |
| WEST JAY COMMUNITY CENTER | $21,619 |
| ASBURY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $19,276 |
| JAY COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION | $19,000 |
| DUNKIRK HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $18,570 |
| PRAISES AND PATHWAYS DAYCARE MINIST | $15,424 |
| JAY-RANDOLPH DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES | $14,735 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $124k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.6M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- JCJAY COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $124k · revenue +412%
- ABA BETTER LIFE BRIANNAS HOP4× · 2018–2022 · $64k · revenue +360% · 40% of their budget
- IUIndiana University Health Jay Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $62k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF JAY COUNTY INCone grant, 2021 · $27k · revenue -4%
- KCKANSAS CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP INCone grant, 2019 · $22k
- PCPENNVILLE COMMUNITY GYM INCone grant, 2023 · $18k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Encourage business to originate, expand current facilities, or relocate to areas within jay county, indiana, in order to expand job opportunities of the residents of jay county, indiana
Provide medical payments for cancer victims
We provide community outreach, education and recreation for Bertie County youth and adults. We are committed to working with the community to inform and improve the quality of
At the jay county clubhouse, our mission is to inspire and support the development of athletes of all ages and skill levels through year-round access to high-quality training, play, and fellowship. rooted in our love for baseball and…
Providing opportunities in which to promote individual capabilities of a person while also promoting goodwill in the community
The jackson county education coalition is a county wide partnership of education, industry, and community leaders focused on aligning and integrating the county's learning system with economic growth and a high quality of life in jackson…
Restore and preserve the 1838 peter augustus jay house, the 1907 carriage house and grounds for use as a center for public education with a focus on american history; arts and achitecture; landscape, and the legacy of john jay and the…
Providing christmas for underprivileged families in jay county, indiana.
Support community growth and activities
Our mission is to provide a safe, inclusive, and positive environment where youth can learn, play, and grow through the game of baseball. we are committed to facilitating teamwork, sportsmanship, and personal development, while promoting…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jay County Boys Club Inc and the most unlike its peers is A Better Life Briannas Hop. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 27 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE PORTLAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JAY COUNTY BOYS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN JAY CENTER FOR LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds JAY COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds A BETTER LIFE BRIANNAS HOP ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Health Jay Inc ↗
- Who funds WEST JAY COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JAY-RANDOLPH DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds JAY COUNTY DRUG PREVENTION COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds JAY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF JAY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds JAY COUNTY 4th OF JULY COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds JAY COUNTY 4-H CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds JAY COUNTY CONSERVATION CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds JAY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Portland Foundation · International Associations of Lions Portland · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 The Portland Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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