Oregon · Nonprofit
KAIROSPDX
KAIROSPDX (Oregon) receives grants from 76 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,972,580 to it, the largest being MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST ($1,408,479). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.3M
- Funders on record
- 76
- Grants received
- $10.0M
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Kairospdx does
Mission
Kairospdx's singularly focused mission is to close the racial achievement and opportunity gaps by cultivating confident, creative, compassionate leaders exceeding academic standards at each developmental milestone from ages 0-10.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Kairospdx learning academy Kairospdx is an educational nonprofit organization operating a community school in the historic albina neighborhood of northeast portland, oregon. Founded in 2012, Kairospdx exists to disrupt long-standing educational inequities by serving children and families from historically underserved communities, with a particular focus on centering justice. Kairospdx learning academy serves children ages 3-11, from preschool through 5th grade. Approximately 83% of enrolled students identify as black or african american, reflecting the organization's commitment to advancing educational equity for those most impacted by systemic disparities. As one of the few black-founded, black-led, and black-serving educational organizations in the pacific northwest, Kairospdx centers a culturally responsive, whole- child educational model that prioritizes academic excellence, identity development, and social-emotional well-being. The organization's mission is to eliminate racial, achievement, and opportunity gaps by cultivating confident, creative, and compassionate leaders who exceed academic expectations at each developmental milestone. We are committed to building strong,…
$5,492,950 spent$7,528 earned by the program92% of program spendingPreschool Kairospdx early learning classrooms are in its third year as a site for the multnomah county preschool for all initiative, offering free preschool to families. The program currently serves 30 children, ages 3-4, across two classrooms. Integrated into the Kairospdx learning academy, the program follows a whole-child educational model that emphasizes academic readiness, identity development, and social-emotional growth. Culturally responsive learning experiences engage children in active exploration, fostering early autonomy, critical thinking, and a sense of responsibility to their communities.
$472,772 spent8% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,965,722.
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 2020 to 2021, from $3.6M to $6.2M (+75%).
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: 2017 55% · 2018 59% · 2019 51% · 2020 55% · 2021 48% · 2022 54% · 2023 49% · 2024 57% · 2025 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of KAIROSPDX’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Marsha Williams
CEO
Board chair
Tiffani Penson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $317k → $2.0M.
17 of 76 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 KAIROSPDX’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 76 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
KAIROSPDX has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
39% 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 KAIROSPDX.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 17% · 2019 24% · 2020 21% · 2021 37% · 2022 16% · 2023 45% — growing more concentrated.
“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 KAIROSPDX's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
75% of KAIROSPDX's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
KAIROSPDX has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding KAIROSPDX receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.8M on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$2.9M
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$628k
- OTHER DISTRIBUTION TO TAXABLE SUBRECIP$194k
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$15k
- INTERAGENCY LEASE PAYMENTS$6k
- OTHER SERVICES$2k
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 KAIROSPDX
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KAIROSPDX: 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 KAIROSPDX?
- KAIROSPDX (Oregon) receives grants from 76 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,972,580 to it, the largest being MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST ($1,408,479). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KAIROSPDX have?
- IRS filings report 76 organizations giving $9,972,580 in grants to KAIROSPDX, 44 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KAIROSPDX?
- MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,408,479 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KAIROSPDX 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 76 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