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Venture Portland
VENTURE PORTLAND means business.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $280,400 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $293,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $12,600 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $205k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JOHNS BOOSTERS | $50,000 |
| STADIUM DISTRICT BUSINESS ASSOCIATI | $47,730 |
| APANO COMMUNITIES UNITED FUND | $42,000 |
| RALEIGH HILLS BUSINESS ASSOCIATION | $36,450 |
| OLD TOWN COMMUNITY | $28,820 |
| FOSTER AREA BUSINESS ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| HISTORIC PARKROSE | $10,000 |
| HISTORIC MISSISSIPPI AVE | $10,000 |
| LLOYD COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIO | $10,000 |
| SOUL DISTRICT | $10,000 |
| NE BROADWAY BUSINESS ASSOCIATION | $8,000 |
| DIVISION CLINTON BUSINESS DISTRICT | $6,000 |
| HILLSDALE BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL | $6,000 |
| HAWTHORNE BLVD BUSINESS ASSOCIATION | $5,400 |
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 (FY25–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $142k 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
- CECENTRAL EASTSIDE INDUSTRIAL COUNCIL6× · 2017–2024 · $89k · revenue +48%
- SJST JOHNS BOOSTERS5× · 2021–2025 · $84k · revenue +129% · 34% of their budget
- LBLLOYD BID INC4× · 2019–2025 · $33k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- PDPEARL DISTRICT BUSINESS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2020 · $11k
- MVMULTNOMAH VILLAGE BUSINESS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2022 · $10k
- WWoodstockone grant, 2019 · $10k
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.
The Downtown Berkely Assocaition works to strengthen the Downtown as a vibrant and welcoming urban destination for arts, culture, and commerce through effective advocacy, prmotion and direct services.
Promoting the economic vitality by enhancing the experience, image & lifestyle of downtown bend.
To ensure the commercial vitality of the Central Area.
The Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce is dedicated to ensuring a healthy, vibrant, diverse, neighborhood business community. We partner with business owners, property owners, affordable housing providers, social service, arts and LGBTQ…
To support the East Central neighborhood of Spokane by preserving and improving its unique facilities, infrastructure and commercial interest.
The association strives to establish and open line of communcation between merchants, property owners, and the city. common goals defined and working relationship continues.
Promote economic interest in Severna Park, MD and Arnold, MD
To promote the Cooper-Young business district
The organization is a district management association established pursuant to General Municipal Law Sect. 980-M to carry out the activities of the business improvement district established by the Town of North Hempstead. The purpose of the…
Baker City Downtown (BCD) is an organization that strives to preserve and enhance the vitality and character of our community through the beautification, promotion and development of downtown Baker City.
To promote, foster, and improve business conditions in the city of san diego, in the area of hillcrest.
To join together local business professionals with ample opportunities to network and work collectively to further economic development and advocate for issues which concern our local community as well as neighboring communities in the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Eastside Industrial Council and the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale Community Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 33 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 CENTRAL EASTSIDE INDUSTRIAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds ST JOHNS BOOSTERS ↗
- Who funds HAWTHORNE BOULEVARD BUSINESS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds APANO COMMUNITIES UNITED FUND ↗
- Who funds LLOYD BID INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JOHNS CENTER FOR OPPORTUNITYS ↗
- Who funds Parkrose NPI ↗
- Who funds PEARL DISTRICT BUSINESS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds North-Northeast Business Association ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA CORRIDOR ASSOCIATION ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Venture Portland 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, a single department, or state — 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.