Oregon · Nonprofit
PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION (Oregon) receives grants from 157 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,659,819 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($9,077,362). 87 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $35M
- Funders on record
- 157
- Grants received
- $63M
- Net assets
- $201M
What Portland State University Foundation does
Mission
Portland State University Foundation is responsible for raising and managing private resources to advance psu's priorities and mission to be a leading urban university.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The foundation supports portland state university by providing scholarships, suppporting faculty research and instruction, enhancing facilities, and nurturing new programs. During the year ended june 30, 2025 the foundation awarded $18,466,770 to the university; $4,337,337 for scholarships and fellowships, $3,376,322 for capital projects, $10,509,005 for academic support, and $244,106 for administrative support.
$20,331,417 spentof which $19,529,615 as grants$6,651,019 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $20,331,417.
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 2020 to 2021, from $146M to $169M (+16%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Al Barkouli
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 32 funders to 63 funders, grant income rose $6.0M → $8.5M.
28 of 157 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.5M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Portland State University Alumni Association). These are real filings, and they are not money PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 157 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 STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
58% 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 STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 23% · 2019 22% · 2020 17% · 2021 21% · 2022 15% · 2023 31% — 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
39% of PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
69% of PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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.
Government funding PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $133k on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$102k
- TRAINING, EDUCATION OR INSTRUCTION SRVC$20k
- DISTRIBUTION TO INDIVIDUALS$3k
- PROF DEV INSTATE TUITION/REGISTRATION$3k
- PROF DEV OUT-OF-STATE GROUND TRANSPRTATN$3k
- AGENCY PROGRAM RELATED SERVICES$1k
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 PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
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
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Broadway Housing LLC · disregarded
- Psu Impact Ventures LLC · disregarded
- 2828 Corbett Inc · exempt
- Perpetual Income Trust (1) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: 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 STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION?
- PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION (Oregon) receives grants from 157 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,659,819 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($9,077,362). 87 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 157 organizations giving $62,659,819 in grants to PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION, 87 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $9,077,362 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 157 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing