Oregon · Nonprofit
OREGON TUALATIN VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO COMMUNITY SERVICES
OREGON TUALATIN VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO COMMUNITY SERVICES (Oregon) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $228 to it, the largest being THE PFIZER FOUNDATION INC ($150). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $116k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $228
- Net assets
- $131k
What Oregon Tualatin Valley Amateur Radio Community Services does
Mission
To provide education, community services, emergency communication as well as amateur exam training and testing sessions for Amateur Radio.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
SEA-PAC Ham Convention is a community service event that provides educational opportunities for Amateur Radio. This includes workshops, seminars, guest speakers and local and national exhibitors who have a presence with Amateur Radio. In 2025 we had 1070 attendees.
$45,474 spent93% of program spendingEmergency Training and Field Day multiple times a year. These events are used for exercising our Emergency Preparedness skills and equipment. All of these events operate from a State or National Park with limited resources and on emergency power. The number of attendees at all three events was a total of 120.
$1,794 spent4% of program spendingVE Testing and Amateur Radio Education Classes. We conduct monthly testing session for Amateur Radio. This includes new licensees as well as those who are testing for upgrades to their existing license. Education classes teach radio, electronics, antennas, propagation, and band plans etc. topics that are directly related to the exams and responsible radio operations and FCC regulations. Over 100 persons were served. Increased expense this year are attributed to moving off paper testing to electronic testing.
$1,825 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $49,093.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2024 to 2025, from $98k to $131k (+33%).
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.
1% of OREGON TUALATIN VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO COMMUNITY SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $164 → $28.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 OREGON TUALATIN VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO COMMUNITY SERVICES’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 TUALATIN VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO COMMUNITY SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
34% 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 TUALATIN VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO COMMUNITY SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 91% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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
OREGON TUALATIN VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO COMMUNITY SERVICES draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $78 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
OREGON TUALATIN VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO COMMUNITY SERVICES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like OREGON TUALATIN VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO COMMUNITY SERVICES
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.
Public support
100%
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 TUALATIN VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO COMMUNITY SERVICES?
- OREGON TUALATIN VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO COMMUNITY SERVICES (Oregon) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $228 to it, the largest being THE PFIZER FOUNDATION INC ($150). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OREGON TUALATIN VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO COMMUNITY SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $228 in grants to OREGON TUALATIN VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO COMMUNITY SERVICES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OREGON TUALATIN VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO COMMUNITY SERVICES?
- THE PFIZER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OREGON TUALATIN VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO COMMUNITY SERVICES 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 2 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