Oregon · Nonprofit
Oregon Sports Authority
Oregon Sports Authority (Oregon) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $202,020 to it, the largest being VISITOR DEVELOPMENT FUND INC ($71,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $202k
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Oregon Sports Authority does
Mission
The mission of the Oregon Sports Authority, dba Sport Oregon, is to drive economic growth and enhance quality of life in Oregon through sports. This is accomplished through our work with state and regional tourism bureaus, event promoters, facility managers and local sports organizing committees to attract a variety of national and international, amateur and professional sports events and related activities to the state. Sport Oregon serves a number of facets within the overall sports landscape of our state. Our day-to day responsibilities involve member solicitation, retainment and engagement; community impact work through our foundation; event planning and execution as well as the active recruitment of sports and related events to our state to generate economic impact, create and sustain jobs and boost the overall profile of Oregon as a sports destination. Sport Oregon is also active in working with local organizations in marketing existing arenas and stadiums, including Providence P
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
In 2023 osa assisted in the promotion and staging of sporting events, including the big swing golf tournament and the nascar, formula e, and indy car hospitality collectives. In doing so the Oregon Sports Authority has, and will continue to, accomplish its organizational mission listed on form 990, part iii, line 1.
$198,186 spent$254,773 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $198,186.
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 2018 to 2019, from $1.8M to $1.6M (−15%).
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 5% · 2023 11%. 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 5 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
James J Etzel
CEO
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $21k → $23k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $73k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Providence Health & Services - Oregon). These are real filings, and they are not money Oregon Sports Authority raised.
From the IRS filings of Oregon Sports Authority’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 Sports Authority leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
74% 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 Sports Authority.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 83% · 2019 50% · 2021 100% · 2023 76% — 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.
Where its funders are
90% of Oregon Sports Authority's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 Sports Authority receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$10k
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 Sports Authority
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.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Oregon Sports Authority Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Oregon Sports Authority: 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 Oregon Sports Authority?
- Oregon Sports Authority (Oregon) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $202,020 to it, the largest being VISITOR DEVELOPMENT FUND INC ($71,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Oregon Sports Authority have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $202,020 in grants to Oregon Sports Authority, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Oregon Sports Authority?
- VISITOR DEVELOPMENT FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $71,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Oregon Sports Authority 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 6 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