· Public charity
Worksystems Inc
The mission of the organization is to coordinate a regional workforce system that supports individual prosperity and business competitiveness.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $53k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $670k
- $250k+15 grants · $17M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IRCO | $3,606,999 |
| PORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $2,613,189 |
| SE WORKS | $1,952,537 |
| POIC | $1,620,541 |
| CENTRAL CITY CONCERN | $1,202,787 |
| PORTLAND YOUTH BUILDERS | $1,094,920 |
| MT HOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $1,017,213 |
| HUMAN SOLUTIONS | $871,462 |
| LATINO NETWORK | $857,297 |
| OREGON TRADESWOMEN | $444,873 |
| CONSTRUCTING HOPE | $353,358 |
| NEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH | $302,662 |
| THE MENTAL HEALTH & ADDICTION | $297,901 |
| URBAN LEAGUE OF PORTLAND | $281,004 |
| IMPACT NW | $264,795 |
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 (FY17–25, $4.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 60% 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 +92% since the first grant, against +51% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 13 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $742k 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
THE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION9× · 2017–2025 · $27M · revenue +138%
SE WORKS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $20M · revenue +9% · 69% of their budget- POPORTLAND OPPORTUNITIES INDUST CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $8.9M · revenue +109%
Funded once
- PPPUBLIC POLICY ASSOCIATESone grant, 2017 · $97k
- SUSEIU UNITED HEALTHCARE WORKERS WEST AND JOINT EMPLOYER EDUCATION FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $70k · revenue +142%
- WCWILLAMETTE CARPENTER TRAINING CENTER INCone grant, 2019 · $61k · revenue -2%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Native American Youth and Family Center and the most unlike its peers is Washington County Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
61 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. 61 of the 72 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 IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds SE WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND OPPORTUNITIES INDUST CENTER ↗
- Who funds HUMAN SOLUTIONS INC DBA OUR JUST FUTURE ↗
- Who funds Central City Concern ↗
- Who funds Portland YouthBuilders ↗
- Who funds Latino Network ↗
- Who funds Oregon Tradeswomen Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds NEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds WORKFORCE INVESTMENT COUNCIL OF CLACKAMAS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds IMPACT NW ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF PORTLAND INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON HUMAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds Constructing Hope Pre-Apprenticeship Program ↗
- Who funds Oregon Manufacturing Extension Partnership Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRO CULTURAL OF WASHINGTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE LAUNCHCODE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mental Health Association of Oregon ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Labors Community Service Agency Inc ↗
- Who funds NECA-IBEW ELECTRICAL TRAINING CENTER ↗
- Who funds Black Parent Initiative ↗
- Who funds Trash for Peace ↗
- Who funds LATINOBUILT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Rosewood Initiative ↗
- Who funds Division Midway Alliance for Community Improvement ↗
- Who funds SEIU UNITED HEALTHCARE WORKERS WEST AND JOINT EMPLOYER EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds All Ages Music Portland dba Friends of Noise ↗
- Who funds WILLAMETTE CARPENTER TRAINING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES TO CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds AIRWAY SCIENCE FOR KIDS 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 Collins Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Oregon Community Foundation · Careoregon Inc · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · United Way of the Columbia-Willamette · Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation · Juan Young Trust · Onpoint Community Credit Union · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Hillman Family Foundations
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 Worksystems 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Friends of Trees — 100% of income from government
- Airway Science for Kids Inc — 100% of income from government
- Workforce Investment Council of Clackamas County — 87% of income from government
- Oregon Manufacturing Extension Partnership Inc — 83% of income from government
- Community Action Organization — 67% of income from government
- Sickle Cell Anemia Foundation of Oregon Inc — 62% of income from government
- Pathfinders of Oregon — 57% of income from government
- Hacienda Community Development Corporation — 48% of income from government
- Oregon Tradeswomen Inc — 46% of income from government
- Black Parent Initiative — 45% of income from government
- Se Works Inc — 43% of income from government
- Mental Health Association of Oregon — 41% of income from government
- Bridges to Change Inc — 40% of income from government
- Oregon Human Development Corporation — 40% of income from government
- Portland Opportunities Indust Center — 38% of income from government
- Portland YouthBuilders — 35% of income from government
- Urban League of Portland Inc — 33% of income from government
- Metropolitan Family Service — 29% of income from government
- Center for Intercultural Organizing — 28% of income from government
- Native American Youth and Family Center — 23% of income from government
- New Avenues for Youth Inc — 20% of income from government
- Kairospdx — 19% of income from government
- Human Solutions Inc Dba Our Just Future — 17% of income from government
- Latino Network — 15% of income from government
- Cascade Aids Project — 13% of income from government
- Voz Workers Rights Education Project — 12% of income from government
- Central City Concern — 10% of income from government
- Impact Nw — 8% of income from government
- Bienestar Inc — 8% of income from government
- Community Development Corporation of Oregon — 7% of income from government
- Oregon Solar Energy Education Fund — 7% of income from government
- New Narrative — 6% of income from government
- Northwest Pilot Project — 6% of income from government
- Growing Gardens — 6% of income from government
- Washington County Historical Society — 4% of income from government
- The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization — 4% of income from government
- Girls Inc of the Pacific Northwest — 4% of income from government
- The Rosewood Initiative — 3% of income from government
- Verde Inc — 3% of income from government
- Friendly House Inc — 3% of income from government
- Constructing Hope Pre-Apprenticeship Program — 2% of income from government
- Trash for Peace — 2% of income from government
- Rose Community Development Corporat — 1% of income from government
- Latinobuilt Foundation — 1% of income from government
- All Ages Music Portland dba Friends of Noise — 1% of income from government
- Centro Cultural of Washington County — 0% of income from government
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.