Oregon · Nonprofit
MULTNOMAH ATHLETIC FOUNDATION
MULTNOMAH ATHLETIC FOUNDATION (Oregon) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,172,318 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,089,741). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $374k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $3.5M
What Multnomah Athletic Foundation does
Mission
To provide community grants for youth athletic activites and to provide scholarships for student athletes based on need and/or merit.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The foundation awards scholarships to individuals who demonstrate academic and athletic accomplishments and who have financial need in pursuing their education. The scholarship funds are awarded in memory of several inspirational employees and athletes of the multnomah athletic club. We provided the joe loprinzi, fay sasser, houser, mel fox scholarships, johnson, swanson family and michael s. Miller to 30 recipients in amount ranging from $1,000 to $10,000. We provided the james f. And marion l. Miller scholar athlete scholarship up to thirty high school seniors from the portland oregon metropolitan area. Each recipient receives a $1,500 award to the college or university of their choice. The houser scholarship awards $20,000 annually.
$224,246 spentof which $152,500 as grants56% of program spendingThe foundation provides community grants to nonprofit organizations and their programs. From july 2024 to june 2025, we awarded 15 grants to support youth athletic participation for those with limited access and opportunities. Our mission and funding strive to support of youth athletics, which promote discipline, leadership, and skill development.in 2024-2025, our grants supported general program funding as well as activities in basketball, bicycling, track and field, racquet sports, skating, soccer, outdoor programming, aquatics, hiking, summer camps, and afterschool athletic and educational programs.the foundation also continued its youth grant initiative, a grantmaking program for 7th and 8th graders that introduces them to philanthropy. Established in 2018, the program provided 10 youth with hands-on experience in grantmaking, awarding $5,000 in funding under the foundation board's oversight.
$172,897 spentof which $113,776 as grants44% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $397,143.
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 $2.7M to $3.5M (+29%).
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: 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of MULTNOMAH ATHLETIC FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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.
Chief executive
Lisa Bendt
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $90k → $147k.
5 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $66k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Multnomah Athletic Club). These are real filings, and they are not money MULTNOMAH ATHLETIC FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of MULTNOMAH ATHLETIC 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
MULTNOMAH ATHLETIC FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 MULTNOMAH ATHLETIC FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 93% · 2021 86% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% — 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 MULTNOMAH ATHLETIC FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 29% 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
96% of MULTNOMAH ATHLETIC FOUNDATION'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 $46k that is directly attributable, 63% of it comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
MULTNOMAH ATHLETIC FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MULTNOMAH ATHLETIC 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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MULTNOMAH ATHLETIC FOUNDATION?
- MULTNOMAH ATHLETIC FOUNDATION (Oregon) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,172,318 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,089,741). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MULTNOMAH ATHLETIC FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,172,318 in grants to MULTNOMAH ATHLETIC FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MULTNOMAH ATHLETIC FOUNDATION?
- THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,089,741 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MULTNOMAH ATHLETIC 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.
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 14 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