Oregon · Nonprofit
PORTLAND FRUIT TREE PROJECT
PORTLAND FRUIT TREE PROJECT (Oregon) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $257,501 to it, the largest being THE ALBERTSONS COMPANIES FOUNDATION ($88,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $336k
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $258k
- Net assets
- $10k
What Portland Fruit Tree Project does
Mission
To increase equitable access to healthful food and strengthen communities by empowering neighbors to share in the harvest and care of city-grown produce.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Portland Fruit Tree Project another record year in 2024, harvesting 108 times and over 15,000 lbs of fruit that went to communities experiencing food insecurity. The organization also provided tree care for services for more households than in any past year and deepened the care provided to five community orchard spaces resulting in healthier and more productive trees around the region. With support from a partnership with Oregon State University Technical Assistance, we hosted 12 paid teen interns in a seasonal orchard care program where they learned work skills as well as how to tend fruit trees and use the fruit produced. For many, this was their first paid work experience. All of the participants lived in, or went to school in, East Portland - a region with lower tree canopy, more food deserts, and fewer opportunities for young people to find employment.
$282,884 spentof which $31,723 as grants$56,325 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $282,884.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $118k to $81k (−31%).
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 15% · 2022 32% · 2023 46% · 2024 18%. 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 4 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
Heather Keisler Fornes
Executive Director
Board chair
Kathy Kornei
Chair, Board Member
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $4k → $39k.
4 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 PORTLAND FRUIT TREE PROJECT’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
PORTLAND FRUIT TREE PROJECT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
55% 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 PORTLAND FRUIT TREE PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 100% · 2020 85% · 2021 44% · 2022 68% · 2023 26% — 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
17% of PORTLAND FRUIT TREE PROJECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 31% 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
PORTLAND FRUIT TREE PROJECT draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $43k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Organizations like PORTLAND FRUIT TREE PROJECT
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
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 PORTLAND FRUIT TREE PROJECT: 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 PORTLAND FRUIT TREE PROJECT?
- PORTLAND FRUIT TREE PROJECT (Oregon) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $257,501 to it, the largest being THE ALBERTSONS COMPANIES FOUNDATION ($88,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PORTLAND FRUIT TREE PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $257,501 in grants to PORTLAND FRUIT TREE PROJECT, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PORTLAND FRUIT TREE PROJECT?
- THE ALBERTSONS COMPANIES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $88,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PORTLAND FRUIT TREE PROJECT 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 26 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