Oregon · Nonprofit
FUND FOR PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS
FUND FOR PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS (Oregon) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,622,511 to it, the largest being FRIENDS OF LINCOLN ($1,353,122). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $653k
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $4.6M
- Net assets
- $427k
What Fund for Portland Public Schools does
Mission
The mission of the Fund for Portland Public Schools (fund for pps) is to support portland public schools, the largest district in the state of oregon serving 44,000 students, by building a robust generosity network, stewarding strategic investments & partnerships, and managing the champion pps schools initiative. The fund for pps focuses on building and accelerating the identification, cultivation, and strengthening of strategic relationships with those who will serve as investment partners in a citywide movement to create a world-class public school system. Located within multnomah county, the organization's core function is to create, coordinate, and facilitate public, private, and philanthropic partnerships that foster equitable opportunities and benefits for pps students. The fund for pps serves all the students of portland public schools.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The fund for pps launched champion pps schools. The parent advisory committee (pac) for the distribution of donations for staffing, a group of nine parents and two students, analyzed priorities and ways to make the most impact. With $930,000 to allocate for the 2025-26 school year, the pac recommended the following investments that were then approved by the pps board of education on may 6, 2025: high impact tutoring $660,000; math supports for 9th and 10th graders distictwide $70,000; food pantries in 20 community schools $200,000.
$930,000 spentof which $930,000 as grants62% of program spendingThe fund for pps secured $354,144 from portland general electric (pge) electric school bus program. The school district will purchase an electric school bus with the award. This investment supports the climate crisis response policy of the board of education, and is paving the way for reducing ghg emissions and being carbon-neutral by 2040.
$354,144 spentof which $354,144 as grants23% of program spendingThe fund provided direct assistance in the amount of $226,100 to pps families facing extreme financial hardships through pps school social workers and student success advocates.
$38,500 spentof which $38,500 as grants3% of program spendingThe fund distributed 182,570 to portland public schools in support of various student centered programs. Funds were passed through to the district to address identified academic and enrichment needs.
$187,570 spentof which $182,570 as grants12% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,510,214.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2024 to 2025, from $5.0M to $1.7M (−65%).
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.
100% of FUND FOR PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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
Dr Christine Pitts
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 14 funders, grant income rose $16k → $1.2M.
8 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 FUND FOR PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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
FUND FOR PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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
95% 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 FUND FOR PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 40% · 2021 31% · 2022 31% · 2023 55% — 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
50% of FUND FOR PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
94% of FUND FOR PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS'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
FUND FOR PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS is better cushioned than half of the 17,450 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding FUND FOR PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $608k on record.
- OTHER DISTRIBUTION TO TAXABLE SUBRECIP$577k
- DISTRIBUTION TO INDIVIDUALS$31k
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 FUND FOR PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS
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
93%
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 FUND FOR PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS: 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 FUND FOR PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS?
- FUND FOR PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS (Oregon) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,622,511 to it, the largest being FRIENDS OF LINCOLN ($1,353,122). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FUND FOR PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $4,622,511 in grants to FUND FOR PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FUND FOR PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS?
- FRIENDS OF LINCOLN is the largest funder on record, with $1,353,122 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FUND FOR PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 32 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