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OREGON ENTREPRENEURS FORUM
OREGON ENTREPRENEURS FORUM (Oregon) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $833,587 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($580,068). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $493k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $834k
- Net assets
- $566k
What Oregon Entrepreneurs Forum does
Mission
To provide support activities and mentoring to the entrepreneurial community to foster business growth and employment opportunities in oregon. We provide educational programs, technical assistance, network connections, and the opportunity for access to capital.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Oen hosted the oregon entrepreneurship awards as a presentation style event with over 415 attendees who gathered to celebrate 250+ nominees, 18 finalists and 6 winners in several areas of entrepreneurial success from across the state of oregon and sw washington.
$242,435 spent$13,881 earned by the program84% of program spendingOen executed angel oregon bio in partnership with ohsu, obi/otradi, onami and the oregon bioscience association to support oregon and sww-based life and bioscience startups. The proram offered capital literacy and investment readiness education to 23 local life and bioscience founders, angel investing education to approximately 15 angel investors, and helped raise an equity investment of $185,000 awarded to one startup, axia orthopedics. One finalist has since received an investment from a local seed fund and two finalists are in discussions with local funds for equity investments.
$22,963 spent$21,487 earned by the program8% of program spendingOen again executed angel oregon tech in 2024. Over 40 companies attended one of two 4-week capital literacy and investment readiness education series, 15 startups pitched to a live audience and 5 were ultimately finalists for the aotech investment fund. A $110,000 angel investment was made in dayo who went on to win additional investment at another local pitch competition for investors.
$5,869 spent$14,705 earned by the program2% of program spendingOen again executed oregon angel food, providing capital literacy and investment readiness education and introductions to investors. 35 entrepreneurs attended one of two 4-week capital literacy and investment readiness classes and 5 were ultimately finalists for the oregon angel foodinvestment fund. A $185,000 angel investment was made in mickelberry gardens who also received investment from a local fund as well as local angel investors.oen hosted 11 pubtalks in person during 2024. Over 1,000 attendees received an opportunity to network and five of these events took place outside of the portland metro region. Additionally, oen hosted 4 entrepreneur mixers for startup founders only to network and connect. Over 200 entrepreneurs connected through that program and oen took place outside the portland metro.
$16,684 spent$17,277 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $287,951.
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 2020 to 2021, from $329k to $678k (+106%).
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 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Cara Turano
President & executive director
Board chair
Mike Goetz
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $180k → $37k.
5 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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: $142k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Entrepreneurs Foundation of the Northwest). These are real filings, and they are not money OREGON ENTREPRENEURS FORUM raised.
From the IRS filings of OREGON ENTREPRENEURS FORUM’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
OREGON ENTREPRENEURS FORUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 OREGON ENTREPRENEURS FORUM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 94% · 2019 93% · 2020 70% · 2021 74% · 2022 64% · 2023 68% — 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 OREGON ENTREPRENEURS FORUM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 30% 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
76% of OREGON ENTREPRENEURS FORUM'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 $198k that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from funders outside Oregon, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $636k 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.
Government funding OREGON ENTREPRENEURS FORUM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $38k on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$20k
- AGENCY PROGRAM RELATED SERVICES$18k
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 OREGON ENTREPRENEURS FORUM
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
51% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 OREGON ENTREPRENEURS FORUM?
- OREGON ENTREPRENEURS FORUM (Oregon) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $833,587 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($580,068). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does OREGON ENTREPRENEURS FORUM have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $833,587 in grants to OREGON ENTREPRENEURS FORUM, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OREGON ENTREPRENEURS FORUM?
- THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $580,068 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OREGON ENTREPRENEURS FORUM 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 10 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