Oregon · Nonprofit
BLACK UNITED FUND OF OREGON
BLACK UNITED FUND OF OREGON (Oregon) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,060,348 to it, the largest being MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST ($2,303,300). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 47
- Grants received
- $6.1M
- Net assets
- $4.2M
What Black United Fund of Oregon does
Mission
Black United Fund of Oregon's primary exempt purpose is to assist in the social & economic development of oregon's disadvantaged communities by providing financial & management assistance to non-profit agencies & coordinating important community initiatives to stimulate growth & development in low-income neighborhoods.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education/training - buf provides professional training to community based organizations in the areas of non-profit management board development, social issues, organizational efficiency & skill & leadership development. Buf also operates a non-profit resource library & computer resource center to be used by non-profit groups, provide support to non-profit organizations. During the year ended june 30, 2025, 340 youth and young adults were served through postsecondary programming, and through community impact, 60 youth were served through leadership development, college scholarships, support for college applications and more.
$1,219,192 spent69% of program spendingCommunity development/philantrophy - buf partners with neighborhood organizations & residents to initiate community problem solving efforts that identify unmet social economic development needs in oregon's low income communities. The issues are addressed thru a wide range of collaborative programs that include healthcare, education, economic development & neighborhood revitalization. Thru educational & outreach initiatives, buf increases awareness to social, economic & cultural significance of philantrophy, builds the capacity of individuals to give & encourage greater philantropic awareness. During the year ended june 30, 2025, 880 grantees received culturally-specific support, small nonprofits to help.
$557,421 spent31% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,776,613.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $2.2M to $4.9M (+120%).
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 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of BLACK UNITED FUND OF OREGON’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $72k → $478k.
10 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 UNITED FUND OF OREGON’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 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 UNITED FUND OF OREGON leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
43% 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 UNITED FUND OF OREGON.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 54% · 2019 51% · 2020 31% · 2021 37% · 2022 53% · 2023 22% — diversifying over time.
“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
65% of BLACK UNITED FUND OF OREGON's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
96% of BLACK UNITED FUND 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. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 UNITED FUND OF OREGON's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 17 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding BLACK UNITED FUND OF OREGON receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.3M on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$800k
- OTHER SPECIAL PAYMENTS$387k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$86k
- PAYMENTS TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$6k
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 UNITED FUND 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
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 BLACK UNITED FUND 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 BLACK UNITED FUND OF OREGON?
- BLACK UNITED FUND OF OREGON (Oregon) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,060,348 to it, the largest being MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST ($2,303,300). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLACK UNITED FUND OF OREGON have?
- IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $6,060,348 in grants to BLACK UNITED FUND OF OREGON, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLACK UNITED FUND OF OREGON?
- MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $2,303,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLACK UNITED FUND 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 47 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing