Oregon · Nonprofit
Black Parent Initiative
Black Parent Initiative (Oregon) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,868,249 to it, the largest being MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST ($1,505,500). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $4.9M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Black Parent Initiative does
Mission
The Black Parent Initiative educates and mobilizes the parents and caregivers of black and multi-ethnic children to ensure they achieve success. Families of black and multi-ethnic children will break generational cycles, achieving financial, educational, health and spiritual success and well-being.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Bpi's together we can (first 1,000 days) home visiting program served 69 black parents and children with 212 virtual and in-person home visits and a robust array of virtual group offerings designed to both promote child development and build community among participating families. Sacred roots provided black pregnant women with education, emotional, technical and material support through virtual, in-person and group formats; services covered all periods of a woman's pregnancy journey, from prenatal through postpartum, including breastfeeding. Our sacred roots doula and mobile lactation services program supported 129 portland mothers delivering 133 babies. Our lactation services served 65 women and babies.
$1,970,894 spent58% of program spendingSawubona school program: community education, training and outreach. Focuses on literacy, culturally specific parenting and advocacy. Bpi achieved these goals through our work with parents and students at five portland public schools; programming included one-on-one literacy tutoring for elementary school students and student affinity groups and film-making projects for middle school students. These activities support literacy, positive cultural identity development and family/community connection.fy 2023-2024; focused on two strategies: 1) culturally specific family engagement and 2) cultural identity development and advocacy. Bpi served 116 students with direct services.
$911,907 spent27% of program spendingBlack family resource center provided educational resources and advocacy support, as well as covid-19 relief, housing support, rental assistance, basic needs support and employment services to help clients secure economic stability through employment search and placement. Bpi also provided mental health services to the community. The resource center served upwards of 500 individuals.
$515,035 spent15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,397,836.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2021 to 2022, from $1.1M to $1.9M (+75%).
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: 2017 64% · 2018 53% · 2019 76% · 2020 25% · 2021 72% · 2022 53% · 2023 70% · 2024 50% · 2025 90%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Black Parent Initiative’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Iris Bell
Interim Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $286k → $487k.
6 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 Black Parent Initiative’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 funders by total. 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
Black Parent Initiative has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
44% 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 Black Parent Initiative.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 47% · 2019 37% · 2020 23% · 2021 43% · 2022 40% · 2023 45% — 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
23% of Black Parent Initiative's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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
68% of Black Parent Initiative's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $979k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states 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
Black Parent Initiative has grown faster than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Black Parent Initiative receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.2M on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$4.2M
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$1.7M
- PAYMENTS TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$125k
- OTHER DISTRIBUTIONS TO SUBRECIPIENTS$115k
- OTHER DISTRIBUTION TO TAXABLE SUBRECIP$100k
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$30k
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 Black Parent Initiative
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Soulful Sips LLC · disregarded
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Black Parent Initiative: 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 Black Parent Initiative?
- Black Parent Initiative (Oregon) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,868,249 to it, the largest being MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST ($1,505,500). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Black Parent Initiative have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $4,868,249 in grants to Black Parent Initiative, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Black Parent Initiative?
- MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,505,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Black Parent Initiative 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 46 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