Oregon · Nonprofit
Central City Concern
Central City Concern (Oregon) receives grants from 112 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,697,463 to it, the largest being CAREOREGON INC ($10,328,206). 63 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $200M
- Funders on record
- 112
- Grants received
- $48M
- Net assets
- $209M
What Central City Concern does
Mission
The mission of Central City Concern (CCC) is to provide comprehensive solutions for ending homelessness and achieving self-sufficiency. Founded in 1979, CCC has developed a comprehensive continuum of affordable housing options integrated with direct social services, including healthcare, recovery, and employment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Central City Concern maintains healthcare and recovery services, integrated with agency housing, to meet the primary and behavioral healthcare, drug, and alcohol treatment and recovery needs of low-income or chronically homeless clients in the Portland metropolitan area. In 2023, CCC served 9,283 health patients across 12 Federally Qualified Health Center sites. Services ranged from integrated primary and behavioral healthcare, community mental health services, subacute detoxification, inpatient and outpatient recovery services, acupuncture and naturopathic treatments, to pharmacy.The Recovery Mentor Program provides housing and an assigned mentor to help clients adhere to a recovery plan of action. The Community Engagement Program (CEP) provides housing and services to people with long histories of homelessness, addiction, and mental health challenges.Central City Concern provides housing, supportive services, and alternatives to these individuals. The Hooper Detoxification Stabilization Center provides drug and alcohol detox services, serving a public safety function in Portland. The Letty Owings Center is a residential drug and alcohol treatment program for low-income,…
$106,508,319 spent$97,369,053 earned by the program63% of program spendingCentral City Concern Housing provides a variety of affordable housing options where individuals who might otherwise be homeless can live comfortably, securely, and safely. We own, lease, or manage 29 buildings, providing nearly 2,186 units of housing throughout the Portland metropolitan area. This housing is available to single adults and families, and includes both transitional and permanent options, market-rate and subsidized units. It serves people in recovery, those living with HIV/AIDS, individuals living with mental illness, people living on Social Security and disability incomes, and those gaining employment skills or returning to work. Of the nearly 2,186 units of housing, more than 50% are Alcohol and Drug-Free Community (ADFC) housing for adults; 88 units are ADFC units for families in recovery.
$47,961,451 spent$15,556,305 earned by the program28% of program spendingEmployment and social enterprises include: - Clean Start is a six-month "homeless to work" job training and mentorship program that fills cleaning and maintenance needs throughout Portland. - Central City Bed sells a durable, sustainable, contemporary, bed bug-resistant furniture line highly suited for affordable housing developments, shelters, and dormitories. - Central City Staffing is a training program providing valuable work experience for formerly homeless individuals while also meeting the need for 24/7 front desk coverage at CCC buildings.This business offers employment opportunities to people living on no or very low incomes. All participants have multiple barriers to employment, such as homelessness or chemical dependency. The enterprise provides on-the-job training that increases job skills and employability, leading to better-than-minimum wage incomes and helping people move from dependency to self-sufficiency.Employment Access Center is a job resource center with specialized programs to assist homeless individuals, or those at risk of becoming homeless, in achieving self-sufficiency by teaching the vocational and social skills needed to find and sustain full-time…
$14,767,366 spentof which $1,530,736 as grants$2,230,755 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $169,237,136.
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 2018 to 2019, from $150M to $181M (+20%).
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 7% · 2018 3% · 2019 3% · 2020 1% · 2021 25% · 2022 28% · 2023 23% · 2024 21% · 2025 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
35% of Central City Concern’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (1% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Andrew Mendenhall MD
CEO
Board chair
Jonathan Radmacher
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 21 funders to 44 funders, grant income rose $6.6M → $8.7M.
18 of 112 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $4.1M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest CCC Eastside QALICB). These are real filings, and they are not money Central City Concern raised.
From the IRS filings of Central City Concern’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 112 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
Central City Concern has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
93% 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 Central City Concern.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 34% · 2019 21% · 2020 30% · 2021 78% · 2022 37% · 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
50% of Central City Concern's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
77% of Central City Concern's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
Central City Concern runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,256 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,256 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding Central City Concern receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $114.2M on record — $79.1M federal, $35.1M state.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$33.7M
- Department of Health and Human Services$33.1M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$12.2M
- OTHER SPECIAL PAYMENTS$20.6M
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$5.2M
- DISTRIBUTION TO CONTRACT SVC PROVIDER$3.6M
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$2.2M
- OTHER DISTRIBUTION TO TAXABLE SUBRECIP$1.9M
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$1.6M
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 Central City Concern
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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Part of a family of 36 related entities
- Central City Investor Inc · disregarded
- CCC-8 NW 8th LLC · disregarded
- Ccc - Hotel Alder LLC · disregarded
- Central City Housing LLC · disregarded
- CCC Estate LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Central City Concern: 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 Central City Concern?
- Central City Concern (Oregon) receives grants from 112 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,697,463 to it, the largest being CAREOREGON INC ($10,328,206). 63 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Central City Concern have?
- IRS filings report 112 organizations giving $47,697,463 in grants to Central City Concern, 63 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Central City Concern?
- CAREOREGON INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,328,206 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Central City Concern 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 112 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