Oregon · Nonprofit
City Club of Portland
City Club of Portland (Oregon) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $709,487 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($419,026). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $272k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $709k
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What City Club of Portland does
Mission
To inform its members and the community in public matters and to arouse in them the realization of the obligations of citizenship.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
Membership city clubs membership totaled 656 at year-end. Frequent communication keeps members apprised of events and research. The website pdxcityclub.org provides current information.
$88,957 spent54% of program spendingForumscity club holds events to educate its members and the community, including speakers, panels, debates, and state of speeches from elected officials. During 2025-26, 25 events were held, all hybrid in-person and virtual. The new leaders council and the issue committees held 20 programs as well.
$72,395 spent$21,109 earned by the program44% of program spendingResearch & advocacycity club is the last city club in the country conducting community based research, with 1,000+ reports completed. During 202526 one study was completed and one more launched. Advocacy efforts began on the topic of ross island.
$4,914 spent3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2026 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $166,266.
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 2020 to 2021, from $901k to $1.3M (+45%).
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 22% · 2022 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
69% of City Club of Portland’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 10 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 narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $61k → $25k.
6 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 City Club of Portland’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
City Club of Portland leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
68% 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 City Club of Portland.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 44% · 2019 49% · 2020 93% · 2021 83% · 2022 58% · 2023 85% — 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
7% of City Club of Portland's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 23% 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
64% of City Club of Portland's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $256k that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $453k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
City Club of Portland runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 284 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 284 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Government funding City Club of Portland receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $795 on record.
- OTHER SERVICES$500
- AGENCY PROGRAM RELATED SERVICES$295
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 City Club of Portland
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
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 City Club of Portland: 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 City Club of Portland?
- City Club of Portland (Oregon) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $709,487 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($419,026). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does City Club of Portland have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $709,487 in grants to City Club of Portland, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of City Club of Portland?
- THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $419,026 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like City Club of Portland 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 22 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