Oregon · Nonprofit
PDX HACKERSPACE
PDX HACKERSPACE (Oregon) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $175,209 to it, the largest being Shelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund Inc ($145,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
PDX HACKERSPACE receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $175k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,089 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Regional Arts & Culture Councillocalportfolio match
- Travel Portlandlocalportfolio match
- The Larson Legacylocalportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $175k → $178.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 PDX HACKERSPACE’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
PDX HACKERSPACE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 83% · 2021 100% · 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
PDX HACKERSPACE draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Regional Arts & Culture Councillocalportfolio matchOR · funds 208 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Travel Portlandlocalportfolio matchOR · funds 28 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Larson Legacylocalportfolio matchOR · funds 97 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- 1803 Fundlocalportfolio matchOR · funds 29 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Collins Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchOR · backs 43 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trustshared fundersportfolio matchOR · backs 47 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Onpoint Community Credit Unionshared funderslocalOR · backs 29 organizations that share your funders · funds 147 organizations near you
- James F & Marion L Miller Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Reser Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Autzen Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Amateur Radio Digital Communicationsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Kinsman Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like PDX HACKERSPACE
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PDX HACKERSPACE: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds PDX HACKERSPACE?
- PDX HACKERSPACE (Oregon) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $175,209 to it, the largest being Shelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund Inc ($145,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PDX HACKERSPACE have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $175,209 in grants to PDX HACKERSPACE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PDX HACKERSPACE?
- Shelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund Inc is the largest funder on record, with $145,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PDX HACKERSPACE 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 5funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing