Tennessee · Nonprofit
PORTLAND PAY IT FORWARD
PORTLAND PAY IT FORWARD (Tennessee) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $521,420 to it, the largest being THE LITTLE PANTRY THAT COULD ($505,459). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $676k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $521k
- Net assets
- $593k
What Portland Pay It Forward does
Mission
Portland Pay It Forward strives to meet the basic needs of our local community with a non-judgmental attitude & no questions asked policy. During our biweekly food giveaways, we provide produce, meat, dry goods,& other food items free of charge to any portland resident in need.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
During 2023, we provided meals to roughly 275 families each month, as well as provided hygiene products, baby and elder care supplies, and hosted a facebook page where residents can request and/or offer free items to each other. In addition, local businesses and schools have held toy, canned food, and winter coat drives allowing Portland Pay It Forward to pass out these items to those in need.
$670,846 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $670,846.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $596k to $593k (−0%).
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.
97% of PORTLAND PAY IT FORWARD’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 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
Ashley Anderson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $44 → $290.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 PAY IT FORWARD’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 5 funders by total. 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 PAY IT FORWARD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% 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
97% 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 PAY IT FORWARD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of PORTLAND PAY IT FORWARD's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $961 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
PORTLAND PAY IT FORWARD's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,856 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like PORTLAND PAY IT FORWARD
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PORTLAND PAY IT FORWARD: 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 PAY IT FORWARD?
- PORTLAND PAY IT FORWARD (Tennessee) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $521,420 to it, the largest being THE LITTLE PANTRY THAT COULD ($505,459). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PORTLAND PAY IT FORWARD have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $521,420 in grants to PORTLAND PAY IT FORWARD, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PORTLAND PAY IT FORWARD?
- THE LITTLE PANTRY THAT COULD is the largest funder on record, with $505,459 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PORTLAND PAY IT FORWARD find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2022–2023), and the filings of 5 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