Oregon · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF SELLWOOD COMMUNITY HOUSE
FRIENDS OF SELLWOOD COMMUNITY HOUSE (Oregon) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $913,032 to it, the largest being SELLWOOD MORELAND IMPROVEMENT LEAGUE ($713,507). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $913k
- Net assets
- $282k
What Friends of Sellwood Community House does
Mission
Sellwood community house is a non-profit community center that offers affordable, accessible classes and programming for all ages, rental space, special events and opportunities for community engagement.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
During the year, sellwood community house (sch) experienced significant program growth while simultaneously navigating ongoing insurance claim challenges related to facility impacts. Despite these complexities, sch sustained and expanded high-quality, community-driven programming across all ages and stages of life. Services included early childhood education with universal preschool speech assessments to support equitable developmental access, robust after-school and youth enrichment programming, and a wide range of adult and intergenerational activities designed to reduce isolation and strengthen community connection. Sch further expanded its impact through the launch of two major initiatives: the playlab, a dedicated indoor early learning and play space for children ages 05 and their caregivers, and the shack at sellwood park, a free, outdoor summer recreation program that significantly increased access to community-based play and engagement in southeast portland. Across all offerings, sch remained responsive to evolving community needs, reinforcing its role as a vital, community-supported hub for connection, learning, and wellbeing.
$1,318,139 spent$1,435,072 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,318,139.
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 2022 to 2023, from $328k to $1.2M (+266%).
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 4% · 2022 30% · 2023 8% · 2024 0% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
11% of FRIENDS OF SELLWOOD COMMUNITY HOUSE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 3 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.
Board chair
Julie Currin
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $66k → $46k.
6 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 FRIENDS OF SELLWOOD COMMUNITY HOUSE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 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
FRIENDS OF SELLWOOD COMMUNITY HOUSE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 FRIENDS OF SELLWOOD COMMUNITY HOUSE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 92% · 2023 86% — 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
99% of FRIENDS OF SELLWOOD COMMUNITY HOUSE's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $195k 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
FRIENDS OF SELLWOOD COMMUNITY HOUSE has grown faster than three-quarters 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 FRIENDS OF SELLWOOD COMMUNITY HOUSE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $475k on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$250k
- OTHER SPECIAL PAYMENTS$206k
- DISTRIBUTION TO CONTRACT SVC PROVIDER$18k
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 FRIENDS OF SELLWOOD COMMUNITY HOUSE
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
49% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
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 FRIENDS OF SELLWOOD COMMUNITY HOUSE: 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 FRIENDS OF SELLWOOD COMMUNITY HOUSE?
- FRIENDS OF SELLWOOD COMMUNITY HOUSE (Oregon) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $913,032 to it, the largest being SELLWOOD MORELAND IMPROVEMENT LEAGUE ($713,507). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF SELLWOOD COMMUNITY HOUSE have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $913,032 in grants to FRIENDS OF SELLWOOD COMMUNITY HOUSE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF SELLWOOD COMMUNITY HOUSE?
- SELLWOOD MORELAND IMPROVEMENT LEAGUE is the largest funder on record, with $713,507 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF SELLWOOD COMMUNITY HOUSE 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 8 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