Oregon · Nonprofit
CULTIVATE INITIATIVES
CULTIVATE INITIATIVES (Oregon) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,802,599 to it, the largest being AMERICAS FOUNDATION INC ($700,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.6M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $5.9M
What Cultivate Initiatives does
Mission
The organization collectively works alongside those on the margins to empower individuals and communities through an inclusive range of services and support in east portland.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Workforce development:the organization's workforce development initiative is designed to create meaningful, paid opportunities that help community members move toward stability and long-term employment. We know that many of our neighbors experiencing homelessness or financial hardship want to get back on their feet through purposeful work, and this program provides a structured pathway to do just that. (see continuation on schedule o).at the heart of this initiative is the internship program, which offers participants five days of paid, hands-on experience shadowing our beautification teams. After completing the internship, participants meet with an employment specialist and may continue on through the employment pathways program. This program provides individualized support such as resume building, interview preparation, job applications, and access to additional training.employment pathways has two tracks: external pathway - focused on preparing participants for careers in various trades and training outside of Cultivate Initiatives. Internal pathway - offers time-limited trainee and apprenticeship positions within the organization. Graduates of the internship program are…
$2,807,103 spent$573,187 earned by the program36% of program spendingSupportive sheltering:the organization provides supportive sheltering services to people experiencing houselessness and housing insecurity. The organization operates the menlo park village through the city of portland's safe rest village program. This is a low-barrier transitional emergency shelter that provides case management, peer support services, connection to mh/sud resources, all while providing the community enough support to ensure a transformative experience. In fiscal year 2025, the origanization broke ground on the development of the workforce village, a 20 unit low-barrier, transitional emergency shelter. (see continuation on schedule o.)once completed, the workforce village will provide a safe space for neighbors to receive case management, peer support services, connections to employment resources, health services, barrier removal support, and community development. Additionally, the organization operates cooling and warming shelters when the weather meets extreme weather thresholds as determined by multnomah county emergency management services.
$2,459,332 spent32% of program spendingHousing and homemaking:this initiative helps individuals experiencing homelessness or living in shelters transition into supportive housing, providing retention services and guidance towards long-term stability. The organization partners with multnomah county and other funding sources to provide houseless individuals access to housing. We offer a range of supports to meet different circumstances. Our rapid re-housing programs, including housing multnomah now and oregon all in, provide short-term financial assistance for individuals to quickly exit homelessness or retain their current housing. (see continuation on schedule o).the supportive leasing program enables high-barrier individuals with opportunities for housing while building landlord relationships and positive rental history. The in-reach program is dedicated to support individuals moving directly from shelter into supportive housing. Beyond financial support, the homemaking team plays a critical role in ensuring long-term success for rehoused individuals. Homemaking specialists work one-on-one with participants to help them acclimate to their new living environments, teaching essential skills such as budgeting, home…
$2,378,652 spent$133,966 earned by the program31% of program spendingThe organization's community health initiative aims to address basic needs, offer preventative care, and promote healthy living within the community. By providing critical community health services directly to houseless neighbors, cultivate addresses various barriers such as transportation, lack of trust, and the impact of financial burdens. The mobile shower and hygiene response program ensures daily access to free showers and hygiene services for neighbors. Furthermore, cultivate collaborates with volunteer health professionals and health education programs, including concordia university nursing, to offer health screenings, covid-19 screenings, wound care, and other nursing services in addition to the mobile shower and hygiene response.
$143,634 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,788,721.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $3.6M to $6.4M (+77%).
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: 2022 94% · 2023 96% · 2024 96% · 2025 77%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of CULTIVATE INITIATIVES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 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
Caleb Coder
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $50k → $400k.
5 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 CULTIVATE INITIATIVES’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
CULTIVATE INITIATIVES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
41% 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 CULTIVATE INITIATIVES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 38% · 2023 31% — 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.
Where its funders are
CULTIVATE INITIATIVES draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $251k 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
CULTIVATE INITIATIVES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CULTIVATE INITIATIVES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.0M on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$3.0M
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$8k
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 CULTIVATE INITIATIVES
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
84% 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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Cultivate Commons LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CULTIVATE INITIATIVES: 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 CULTIVATE INITIATIVES?
- CULTIVATE INITIATIVES (Oregon) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,802,599 to it, the largest being AMERICAS FOUNDATION INC ($700,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CULTIVATE INITIATIVES have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,802,599 in grants to CULTIVATE INITIATIVES, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CULTIVATE INITIATIVES?
- AMERICAS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $700,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CULTIVATE INITIATIVES 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 19 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