Oregon · Nonprofit
BE BLAC FOUNDATION
BE BLAC FOUNDATION (Oregon) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $984,722 to it, the largest being WILLAMETTE WORKFORCE PARTNERSHIP ($408,203). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $428k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $985k
- Net assets
- $-3079
What Be Blac Foundation does
Mission
Our mission is to develop and grow the black community through generational leadership, partnering and supporting black-owned, run, and operated businesses/nonprofits, and strengthening black families. Our vision: community where black leadership impacts every area of the community and where no decisions are made without our community's direct influence.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Business development: supporting new and existing black-owned businesses through community, support, education, and capacity building. The be-blac foundation provided 45,000.00 in mini grants to 7 black led-bipoc businesses within marion and polk counties. Through this funding, businesses participated in quarterly workshops around financial management, non-profit leadership, business development and hiring practices and completed mini grant applications voted by panel to receive funding. The be-blac foundation launched the black business directory that currently holds 40 businesses, hosted over 30 business-focused gatherings (including monthly coffee business club and biannual business bootcamps), and provided consulting for 30 businesses.
$143,416 spentof which $45,000 as grants28% of program spendingYouth and education development: elevate and advance the academic support for our next generation. The be-blac foundation served a total of 1,260 youth served across all foundation initiatives. The be-blac foundation purchased remaining black history 365 curriculum for elective offering at the highschool level for the african american history course to launch during the 2026 school year, sponsored busses and registration for 130 students to attend the african american youth leadership conference, and supported 8 black staff to attend the national alliance of black school educators conference. In addition, the be-blac foundation provided literacy boxes to scott elementary students to help with reading literacy over the summer and made kindle readers available for students to read through the year.
$327,873 spent65% of program spendingCommunity network: organizing be-blac community gatherings and acting as a connecting hub for black-initiated community events. The be-blac foundation provided 327 free books by black and brown authors and stories, hosted 4 family night events and 2 community affinity nights with 198 attendees including parents, students, and staff. In addition, the be-blac foundation strengthened partnerships with salvation army kroc center, salem keizer public schools (skps), world beat gallery, kalapuya elementary school, and church at the park.
$32,262 spent6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $503,551.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $292k to $224k (−23%).
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: 2024 26% · 2025 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of BE BLAC FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 BE BLAC FOUNDATION’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
BE BLAC FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
77% 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 BE BLAC FOUNDATION.
“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.
Where its funders are
97% of BE BLAC FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $245k 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.
Against its field
BE BLAC FOUNDATION receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $985k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 904 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding BE BLAC FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $181k on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$87k
- DISTRIBUTION TO FOR-PROFIT SUBRECIPIENT$53k
- PAYMENTS TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$42k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BE BLAC FOUNDATION
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 BE BLAC FOUNDATION: 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 BE BLAC FOUNDATION?
- BE BLAC FOUNDATION (Oregon) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $984,722 to it, the largest being WILLAMETTE WORKFORCE PARTNERSHIP ($408,203). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BE BLAC FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $984,722 in grants to BE BLAC FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BE BLAC FOUNDATION?
- WILLAMETTE WORKFORCE PARTNERSHIP is the largest funder on record, with $408,203 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BE BLAC FOUNDATION 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 9 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