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Venture Portland at a glance

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Venture Portland

VENTURE PORTLAND means business.

$293k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $280,400, the rows itemized in this filing. The $293,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $12,600 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $205k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$600k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
HISTORIC MISSISSIPPI AVE$10,000
LLOYD COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIO$10,000
HISTORIC PARKROSE$10,000
FOSTER AREA BUSINESS ASSOCIATION$10,000
SOUL DISTRICT$10,000
NE BROADWAY BUSINESS ASSOCIATION$8,000
HILLSDALE BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL$6,000
DIVISION CLINTON BUSINESS DISTRICT$6,000
HAWTHORNE BLVD BUSINESS ASSOCIATION$5,400
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SOUL DISTRICT: $10k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$934k · 21 repeat orgs$197k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
7

Total granted

$934k
$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
0%

Still filing today

29%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $142k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementReligionHuman ServicesOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CE
    CENTRAL EASTSIDE INDUSTRIAL COUNCIL
    6× · 2017–2024 · $89k · revenue +48%
  • SJ
    ST JOHNS BOOSTERS
    5× · 2021–2025 · $84k · revenue +129% · 34% of their budget
  • LB
    LLOYD BID INC
    4× · 2019–2025 · $33k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • PD
    PEARL DISTRICT BUSINESS ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2020 · $11k
  • MV
    MULTNOMAH VILLAGE BUSINESS ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • W
    Woodstock
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Downtown Berkeley Association

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.

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2
Downtown Bend Business Association

Promoting the economic vitality by enhancing the experience, image & lifestyle of downtown bend.

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3
Central Area Collaborative

To ensure the commercial vitality of the Central Area.

Community Improvement
4
Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce

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…

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5
East Spokane Business Association

To support the East Central neighborhood of Spokane by preserving and improving its unique facilities, infrastructure and commercial interest.

Community Improvement
6
Coos Bay Downtown Association

The association strives to establish and open line of communcation between merchants, property owners, and the city. common goals defined and working relationship continues.

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7
Greater Severna Park and Arnold Chamber of Commerce

Promote economic interest in Severna Park, MD and Arnold, MD

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8
Cooper-Young Business Association

To promote the Cooper-Young business district

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9
Greater Port Washington Business Improvement District Association

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…

Community Improvement
10
Baker City Downtown

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.

Community Improvement
11
Hillcrest Business Improvement Association

To promote, foster, and improve business conditions in the city of san diego, in the area of hillcrest.

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12
The Parkville-Carney Business Association Inc

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Eastside Industrial Council; 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.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/11
Grantees still filing
4/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WILLIAMS VANCOUVER BUSINESS ASSOCIATION: $109,594 · OtherWILLIAMS VANCOUVER BUSINESS ASSOCIATIONOLD TOWN COMMUNITY: $105,546 · OtherOLD TOWN COMMUNITYHAWTHORNE BOULEVARD BUSINESS ASSOCIATION: $72,618 · OtherHAWTHORNE BOULEVARD BUSINESS ASSOCIATIONHISTORIC MISSISSIPPI AVE: $57,130 · OtherHISTORIC MISSISSIPPI AVEFOSTER AREA: $52,067 · OtherFOSTER AREANORTHWEST INDUSTRIAL BUSINESS ASSOC: $50,500 · OtherNORTHWEST INDUSTRIAL BUSINESS ASSOCSTADIUM DISTRICT BUSINESS ASSOCIATI: $47,730 · OtherSTADIUM DISTRICT BUSINESS ASSOCIATIAPANO COMMUNITIES UNITED FUND: $42,000 · OtherNORTH EAST BROADWAY BUSINESS ASSOCIATION: $39,000 · OtherRALEIGH HILLS BUSINESS ASSOCIATION: $36,450 · OtherGateway Area Business Assoc: $35,000 · OtherLLOYD BID INC: $33,000 · OtherKenton Business Assoc: $31,500 · Other+13 more: $176,900 · Other+13 moreCENTRAL EASTSIDE INDUSTRIAL COUNCIL: $89,000 · Community ImprovementCENTRAL EASTSIDE INDU…ST JOHNS BOOSTERS: $84,000 · Community ImprovementST JOHNS BOOSTERSHILLSDALE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,926 · Community ImprovementHILLSDALE COMMUNITY F…Parkrose NPI: $16,000 · Community ImprovementParkrose NPI+1 more: $6,000 · Community ImprovementST JOHNS CENTER FOR OPPORTUNITYS: $16,000 · ReligionNorth-Northeast Business Association: $10,000 · Human Services
Other$889,035Community Improvement$215,926Religion$16,000Human Services$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCENTRAL EASTSIDE INDUSTRIAL COUNCIL: $89,000 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetST JOHNS BOOSTERS: $84,000 over 5y, 34% of budgetHAWTHORNE BOULEVARD BUSINESS ASSOCIATION: $72,618 over 4y, 81% of budgetAPANO COMMUNITIES UNITED FUND: $42,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetLLOYD BID INC: $33,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetParkrose NPI: $16,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetST JOHNS CENTER FOR OPPORTUNITYS: $16,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetPEARL DISTRICT BUSINESS ASSOCIATION: $10,500 over 1y, 19% of budgetNorth-Northeast Business Association: $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetCOLUMBIA CORRIDOR ASSOCIATION: $6,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 Parkrose NPI ↗
  • Who funds ST JOHNS CENTER FOR OPPORTUNITYS ↗
  • Who funds PEARL DISTRICT BUSINESS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds North-Northeast Business Association ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBIA CORRIDOR ASSOCIATION ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Venture Portland funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Venture Portland. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 33 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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