Oregon · Public charity
Venture Portland
VENTURE PORTLAND means business. The organization invests in the smart, strategic growth of portland's 50 unique neighborhood business districts through grants, training, and promotion. Together, neighborhood business districts contain 19,200 businesses and provide 270,000 jobs, playing a vital role in portland's economy. VENTURE…
- $293k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $280k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $600k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Venture Portland funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Community ImprovementReligionOther
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 year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 14 | $280k | 36% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $333k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $86k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $78k | 44% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $57k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $76k | 22% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $103k | 36% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $62k | 38% |
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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 2025.
Community Improvement$957kArts & Culture$97kHuman Services$52kFood & Nutrition$15kYouth Development$10k
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Williams Vancouver Business Association | $109,594 | 8 | n/a |
| Old Town Community | $105,546 | 5 | n/a |
| Central Eastside Industrial Council | $89,000 | 6 | 5% |
| St Johns Boosters | $84,000 | 5 | 34% |
| Hawthorne Boulevard Business Association | $72,618 | 4 | 81% |
| Historic Mississippi Ave | $57,130 | 4 | n/a |
| Foster Area | $52,067 | 6 | n/a |
| Northwest Industrial Business Assoc | $50,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Stadium District Business Associati | $47,730 | 1 | n/a |
| Apano Communities United Fund | $42,000 | 1 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Williams Vancouver Business Association | $109,594 | 8 | n/a |
| Old Town Community | $105,546 | 5 | n/a |
| Central Eastside Industrial Council | $89,000 | 6 | 5% |
| St Johns Boosters | $84,000 | 5 | 34% |
| Hawthorne Boulevard Business Association | $72,618 | 4 | 81% |
| Historic Mississippi Ave | $57,130 | 4 | n/a |
| Foster Area | $52,067 | 6 | n/a |
| Northwest Industrial Business Assoc | $50,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Stadium District Business Associati | $47,730 | 1 | n/a |
| Apano Communities United Fund | $42,000 | 1 | 1% |
| North East Broadway Business Association | $39,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Raleigh Hills Business Association | $36,450 | 1 | n/a |
| Gateway Area Business Assoc | $35,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Lloyd Bid Inc | $33,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Kenton Business Assoc | $31,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Midway Business Association | $27,050 | 3 | n/a |
| Lents Grown Business Association | $24,200 | 3 | n/a |
| 82nd Avenue Business Association | $20,950 | 2 | n/a |
| Hillsdale Community Foundation | $20,926 | 3 | n/a |
| Montavillaeast Tabor | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Parkrose NPI | $16,000 | 2 | 7% |
| St Johns Center for Opportunitys | $16,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Foster Area Business Association | $15,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Northwest Business Association | $14,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Pearl District Business Association | $10,500 | 1 | 19% |
| Multnomah Village Business Association | $10,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Woodstock | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| North-Northeast Business Association | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Parkrose Business Assoc | $6,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Columbia Corridor Association | $6,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Divisionclinton | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Division Clinton Business District | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Beaumont Business Association | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Venture Portland supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 10.
About Venture Portland
- How much does Venture Portland give?
- Venture Portland reported 14 itemized grants totaling $280,400, out of $293,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Venture Portland fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (85%), Arts & Culture (9%), Human Services (5%).
- Who are Venture Portland's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Williams Vancouver Business Association ($110k), Old Town Community ($106k), Central Eastside Industrial Council ($89k).
- Does Venture Portland fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Where is Venture Portland based?
- Venture Portland is based in OR.
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