Oregon · Nonprofit
JOURNEYS FOUNDATION
JOURNEYS FOUNDATION (Oregon) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $513,681 to it, the largest being PORTLAND OPPORTUNITIES INDUST CENTER ($246,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $95k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $514k
- Net assets
- $-2810
What Journeys Foundation does
Mission
Provide educational and recreational resources to youth and their families. Teach inner-city youth life skills and providing them with positive role models.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The organization has participated in the education process of inner-city youth by monitoring grades, counseling to select classes and providing tutorial sessions after school. The organization has also developed the athletic skills of inner-city youth encouraging participation in an organized inner-city basketball league, tournaments, related training and practice. The current level of service ranges from 2nd grade through college. Youth program served 50 kids, high school program served 60 kids and post high school served 40 kids with 15 kids moving to professional leagues.
$86,746 spent100% of program spendingThe organization has participated in the education process of inner-city youth by monitoring grades, counseling to select classes and providing tutorial sessions after school. The organization has also developed the athletic skills of inner-city youth encouraging participation in an organized inner-city basketball league, tournaments, related training and practice. The current level of service ranges from 2nd grade through college. Youth program served 50 kids, high school program served 60 kids and post high school served 40 kids with 15 kids moving to professional leagues.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $86,746.
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 2021 to 2022, from $70 to $19k (+26664%).
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: 2024 54% · 2025 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of JOURNEYS FOUNDATION’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. 6 of the last 8 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
Joel Andersen
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $1k → $306k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 JOURNEYS FOUNDATION’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
JOURNEYS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
93% 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 JOURNEYS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 80% · 2023 66% — 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
100% of JOURNEYS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $229k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
JOURNEYS FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,557 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,557 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like JOURNEYS FOUNDATION
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
91% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JOURNEYS FOUNDATION: 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 JOURNEYS FOUNDATION?
- JOURNEYS FOUNDATION (Oregon) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $513,681 to it, the largest being PORTLAND OPPORTUNITIES INDUST CENTER ($246,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JOURNEYS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $513,681 in grants to JOURNEYS FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JOURNEYS FOUNDATION?
- PORTLAND OPPORTUNITIES INDUST CENTER is the largest funder on record, with $246,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JOURNEYS FOUNDATION 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 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