Oregon · Nonprofit
AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM OF OREGON
AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM OF OREGON (Oregon) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,169,183 to it, the largest being MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST ($403,500). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $518k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $316k
What American Leadership Forum of Oregon does
Mission
The purpose of the American Leadership Forum of Oregon is to join and strengthen leaders in order to better serve the public good. It enhances leadership by building on the strengths of diversity and by promoting collaborative problem solving within and among communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Oregon fellows program: the american leadership forum (alf) of oregon is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that brings a diverse range of corporate, public and non-profit leaders together to build effective networks of collaboration, service and community throughout the state. By creating a network of leaders with established bonds of trust and mutual support, alf strengthens the commitment of leaders to utilize collaborative approaches to dealing with emergent and complex community and statewide issues. Alf oregon hosts two cohorts each year of talented, proven leaders who commit to meeting together once a month from august to may. Each month, the cohort members ("fellows") learn about and contemplate challenges facing different oregon communities while also digging into the alf oregon curriculum.
$367,131 spentof which $119,834 as grants$295,666 earned by the program96% of program spendingSenior fellows engagement: alf oregon hosts regular convenings for the senior fellow network (alf oregon graduates) to continue to meet, connect, and learn from one another about timely issues. This year, we hosted the following events that were inspired by and led by senior fellows: * 6 affinity groups that met monthly or quarterly. * 2 dialogue and informational events (one on land use policies impact on affordable housing + evolution and struggles of leaders of color in portland and willamette valley).
$15,926 spent4% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $383,057.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $742k to $465k (−37%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 18% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Sarah Greenman
Executive director
Board chair
Berk Nelson
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income fell $109k → $107k.
1 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM OF OREGON’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM OF OREGON leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
25% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM OF OREGON.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 86% · 2019 68% · 2020 41% · 2021 29% · 2022 27% · 2023 70% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
100% of AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM OF OREGON's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
97% of AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM OF OREGON's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $210k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM OF OREGON
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
53%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM OF OREGON: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM OF OREGON?
- AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM OF OREGON (Oregon) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,169,183 to it, the largest being MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST ($403,500). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM OF OREGON have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $1,169,183 in grants to AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM OF OREGON, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM OF OREGON?
- MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $403,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM OF OREGON find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 17 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing