Oregon · Nonprofit
IMAGINE BLACK FUTURES
IMAGINE BLACK FUTURES (Oregon) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,845,321 to it, the largest being MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST ($1,509,488). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $4.8M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Imagine Black Futures does
Mission
Imagine Black Futures helps portland's black community imagine the alternatives we deserve, builds our political participation and supports leadership to achieve those alternatives.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Focus: cultural work campaign (community building, wellness, content, storytelling)Imagine Black Futures made significant strides in advancing our mission through our cultural work campaign, which emphasizes community building and cultural organizing. In 2023, we successfully launched the black possibilities mobile app, now serving 580 users, and hosted 3 virtual workshops, 24 live streams, and a series of video events focused on wellness and strengthening community connections. Through our afro-ecology initiative, we united the community in visioning sessions, storytelling events, and nature gatherings, fostering deeper connections and shared aspirations for a more equitable future. Additionally, we conducted a comprehensive survey on black environmental justice needs, receiving nearly 600 responses. These insights are proving invaluable as we shape our advocacy efforts and future programming.
$200,758 spentof which $40,615 as grants18% of program spendingFocus: black radical imagination campaign (visioning and leadership development)Imagine Black Futures made significant progress with our black radical imagination campaign, emphasizing community visioning and leadership development. Within our black leadership academy, we piloted the black seeds school curriculum and successfully graduated ten participants in cohort 7, including one who was recently elected to the portland city council. In collaboration with the rosewood initiative, black community of portland, and the national black worker center, we began laying the groundwork for oregon's first black worker centera transformative initiative designed to empower black oregonians by improving working conditions, building civic power, and advocating for workers' rights. To further this mission, we launched a comprehensive survey to better understand the challenges faced by black workers in oregon, gathering essential insights to shape future programming. We also hosted 16 virtual workshops focused on racial equity, fostering spaces for education, dialogue, and community building. Lastly, we initiated plans for our upcoming community book clubs to deepen collective learning and…
$233,750 spentof which $28,399 as grants21% of program spendingFocus: civic engagement Imagine Black Futures proudly advanced its mission through our civic power campaign, childcare campaign, public safety campaign, and just transitions campaignall focused on deepening civic engagement. This year, we successfully recruited a staff member to serve on the metro regional government committee on racial equity and deployed our civic engagement 101 curriculum. We hosted the parent & provider activist summit at our center for black radical imagination in old town, portland, and recruited two members to the metro transportation alternatives committee. Our staff played pivotal roles on key advisory boards, including the historic albina advisory board (haab), kaiser permanente's black health community advisory council, and the oregon health authority's state health assessment steering committee. We facilitated 3 virtual workshops focused on civic engagement and community organizing and maintained participant involvement in the multnomah county health department budget advisory committee. Additionally, our policy staff engaged extensively in the metro regional transportation plan and identified future opportunities for involvement in projects such as…
$151,809 spent14% of program spendingAll other program service
$506,992 spent$175,847 earned by the program46% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,093,309.
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 2020 to 2021, from $477k to $1.2M (+145%).
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: 2020 26% · 2021 5% · 2022 30% · 2023 14% · 2024 33%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of IMAGINE BLACK FUTURES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Joy Alise Davis
Executive director
Board chair
Rosalie Lee-Washington
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $37k → $319k.
8 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 IMAGINE BLACK FUTURES’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
IMAGINE BLACK FUTURES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% 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
54% 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 IMAGINE BLACK FUTURES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 22% · 2021 34% · 2022 38% · 2023 39% — 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
25% of IMAGINE BLACK FUTURES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
88% of IMAGINE BLACK FUTURES's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M 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
IMAGINE BLACK FUTURES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like IMAGINE BLACK FUTURES
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
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 IMAGINE BLACK FUTURES: 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 IMAGINE BLACK FUTURES?
- IMAGINE BLACK FUTURES (Oregon) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,845,321 to it, the largest being MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST ($1,509,488). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does IMAGINE BLACK FUTURES have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $4,845,321 in grants to IMAGINE BLACK FUTURES, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IMAGINE BLACK FUTURES?
- MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,509,488 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IMAGINE BLACK FUTURES 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 27 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