Oregon · Nonprofit
Lift Urban Portland
Lift Urban Portland (Oregon) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,288,829 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($356,979). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $459k
What Lift Urban Portland does
Mission
Lift Urban Portland's mission is to reduce hunger and improve the lives of low-income residents of northwest and downtown portland.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Preston's pantrypreston's pantry is designed like a store, where clients can select what they want in the quantities they need. The program manager likes to remind our community that the food doesn't belong to lift up - it belongs to our clients, and we are just the conduit to food access. In order to counteract the emotional impacts of food insecurity, we strive to display an abundance of food so shoppers can trust that their needs will be met. A longtime lift up volunteer says this approach is important because, "when people see they can have more than just their next meal, it makes them feel more secure. Preston's pantry serves over 16,000 individuals each year.
$956,697 spent53% of program spendingAdopt a buildinglift up's adopt a building program matches community partners with residents of low-income housing buildings in downtown and northwest portland. Together, we facilitate low-barrier nutritious food access for residents experiencing food insecurity and we create authentic relationships among neighbors. Delivered food boxes are a monthly delivery to residents who are unable to access preston's pantry. Each delivery contains 45 pounds of fresh produce and pantry items. Adopted buildings also receive food to stock on-site emergency food closets to enable 24/7 access and meet urgent needs. Supper club is our healthy-eating workshops series that teaches culinary skills, provides nutritional information, and encourages community building.
$842,890 spent47% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,799,587.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $250k to $362k (+45%).
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: 2022 5% · 2023 1% · 2024 3% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $94k → $305k.
11 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 Lift Urban Portland’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 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
Lift Urban Portland has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
68% 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 Lift Urban Portland.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 35% · 2019 27% · 2020 44% · 2021 17% · 2022 45% · 2023 26% — 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
56% of Lift Urban Portland's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
54% of Lift Urban Portland's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.1M that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Government funding Lift Urban Portland receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $37k on record.
- OTHER DISTRIBUTION TO TAXABLE SUBRECIP$37k
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 Lift Urban Portland
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
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 Lift Urban Portland: 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 Lift Urban Portland?
- Lift Urban Portland (Oregon) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,288,829 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($356,979). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Lift Urban Portland have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $2,288,829 in grants to Lift Urban Portland, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Lift Urban Portland?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $356,979 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Lift Urban Portland 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 46 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