Oregon · Public charity
Trail Blazers Foundation
The TRAIL BLAZERS FOUNDATION is dedicated to positively impacting the lives of individuals from communities that have been historically underserved or marginalized with a focus on where youth live, learn, and play.
- $784k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
Read this first · the figures below need context
71% of Trail Blazers Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Oregon Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 18 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Itemized, FY2025
- $709k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,200
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 34
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $846k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Trail Blazers Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 18 | $209k | 56% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $157k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $219k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $232k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $200k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $312k | 82% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $232k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Youth Organized & United Help | $117,423 | 5 | 20% |
| Learn Fresh Education Co | $115,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Word Is Bond | $107,129 | 5 | 17% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Portland Metropolitan Area | $59,734 | 2 | 1% |
| NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc | $56,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Chinese Progressive Association | $47,000 | 2 | 0% |
| National Black Justice Coalition Inc | $47,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Positive Coaching Alliance | $41,853 | 2 | 0% |
| Klamath County School District | $39,050 | 4 | n/a |
| Nixyawii Community School | $30,750 | 3 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Youth Organized & United Help | $117,423 | 5 | 20% |
| Learn Fresh Education Co | $115,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Word Is Bond | $107,129 | 5 | 17% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Portland Metropolitan Area | $59,734 | 2 | 1% |
| NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc | $56,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Chinese Progressive Association | $47,000 | 2 | 0% |
| National Black Justice Coalition Inc | $47,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Positive Coaching Alliance | $41,853 | 2 | 0% |
| Klamath County School District | $39,050 | 4 | n/a |
| Nixyawii Community School | $30,750 | 3 | 1% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs Portland Metro | $30,283 | 2 | n/a |
| Jefferson County School District No 509j | $28,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Beyond Black | $27,117 | 2 | n/a |
| Portland Public Schools | $27,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Alliance for Global Justice Corp | $26,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Mitchell Booster Club | $25,450 | 3 | n/a |
| Oakland School District #1 | $25,450 | 3 | n/a |
| Oregon Food Bank | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Phoenix-Talent School District #4 | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities of Oregon and Southwest Washington | $19,693 | 3 | 0% |
| Clatskanie School District | $18,400 | 2 | n/a |
| Maurice Lucas Foundation | $17,435 | 3 | 1% |
| Gervais School District | $16,650 | 3 | n/a |
| Hood River County School District | $15,600 | 2 | n/a |
| Fund for Portland Public Schools | $15,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of Zenger Farm | $15,414 | 1 | n/a |
| Kairospdx | $15,278 | 2 | 0% |
| Forest Grove School District | $15,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Warrenton Sd | $14,900 | 2 | n/a |
| Beaverton School District | $14,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Grants Pass School District 7 | $14,400 | 2 | n/a |
| Four Rivers Community School Inc | $13,150 | 2 | 0% |
| Betties3sixty | $11,337 | 1 | n/a |
| Imbler FFA | $10,400 | 1 | n/a |
| Kids Unlimited of Oregon | $10,400 | 1 | 0% |
| Crane Elementary School | $10,300 | 1 | n/a |
| Morrow County School District | $10,300 | 1 | n/a |
| Camas Valley Charter School | $10,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Grant School District No 3 | $10,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Greater Albany Public Schools | $10,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Salem Keizer Public Schools | $10,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Eddyville Charter School | $10,150 | 1 | 0% |
| Centennial School District | $10,100 | 1 | n/a |
| Fort Vancouver High School Booster Club | $10,100 | 1 | 4% |
| Reynolds School District | $10,100 | 1 | n/a |
| Dayton School District | $10,050 | 1 | n/a |
| Powder Valley Charter School | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Native American Youth and Family Center | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| North Medford High School | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Scappoose School District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Central School District 13j | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| New Avenues for Youth -1220 | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Latino Network | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Urban Gleaners | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors Inc | $9,610 | 1 | 0% |
| Adaptive Sports Northwest | $9,380 | 1 | 5% |
| Lgbtq Community Center Fund | $9,286 | 1 | 2% |
| Adelante Mujeres | $9,193 | 1 | 0% |
| Elevate Oregon | $8,973 | 1 | 1% |
| Siuslaw School Dist Num 97J | $8,850 | 1 | n/a |
| Womens Foundation of Oregon | $8,231 | 1 | 1% |
| Girls Build | $8,004 | 1 | 1% |
| Vibes Public Charter School | $7,800 | 1 | 0% |
| Gresham-Barlow School District | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Folds of Honor Foundation | $7,301 | 1 | 0% |
| The Brian Grant Foundation | $7,290 | 1 | n/a |
| Milwaukie El Puente PTO | $7,100 | 1 | n/a |
| Rose Haven Cic | $6,989 | 1 | 0% |
| David Douglas School District | $6,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Culver School District | $6,400 | 1 | n/a |
| Junior Achievement of Oregon and Sw Washington Inc | $6,352 | 1 | 0% |
| PTA Oregon Congress | $6,100 | 1 | n/a |
| Clackamas Education Service Distric | $6,100 | 1 | n/a |
| Hacienda Community Development Corporation | $5,399 | 1 | 0% |
| Causa of Oregon | $5,358 | 1 | 0% |
| Burns Hines School District | $5,350 | 1 | n/a |
| Quadriplegics United Against Dependency Inc | $5,306 | 1 | 0% |
| Douglas County School District #32 | $5,300 | 1 | n/a |
| Sunny Wolf Charter School | $5,300 | 1 | 0% |
| Condon School District | $5,150 | 1 | n/a |
| North Bend School District #13 | $5,150 | 1 | n/a |
| Ke Kukui Foundation | $5,119 | 1 | 1% |
| Cesar Chavez PTA | $5,100 | 1 | n/a |
| North Clackamas School District | $5,100 | 1 | n/a |
| Centro Cultural of Washington County | $5,097 | 1 | 0% |
| Holla School | $5,050 | 1 | 1% |
| Friends of Trees | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| St Mary's Home | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Schoolhouse Supplies Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Roosevelt PTSA | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Trail Blazers Foundation supplied at peak.
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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 Oregon Community Foundation · Oea Choice Trust · Meyer Memorial Trust · Schoolhouse Supplies Inc · The Collins Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Onpoint Community Credit Union · The Ford Family Foundation · Juan Young Trust · The Autzen Foundation · GenYOUTH Incorporated
How this is measured
About Trail Blazers Foundation
- How much does Trail Blazers Foundation give?
- Trail Blazers Foundation reported 19 itemized grants totaling $708,520, out of $784,180 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 34 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Trail Blazers Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (53%), Education (12%), Environment (8%).
- Who are Trail Blazers Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Youth Organized & United Help ($117k), Learn Fresh Education Co ($115k), Word Is Bond ($107k).
- Does Trail Blazers Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Trail Blazers Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Oregon Community Foundation, Oea Choice Trust, Meyer Memorial Trust.
- Where is Trail Blazers Foundation based?
- Trail Blazers Foundation is based in OR.
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