Oregon · Nonprofit
Portland Urban Debate League
Portland Urban Debate League (Oregon) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $215,273 to it, the largest being THE COLLINS FOUNDATION ($64,300). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $108k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $215k
- Net assets
- $19k
What Portland Urban Debate League does
Mission
Mission Statement-Empowering students through competitive policy debate to become engaged learners and critical thinkers who are effective advocates for themselves and their communities. Program Service Accomplishments: The Portland Urban Debate League served 252 students by providing resources for equitable access to debate programs. The League hosted its first ever middle school level tournament and expanded distribution of middle school level curricular resources. PUDL produced low/no barrier tournaments for its partner schools and supported teams that traveled for state and national level competition. 144 students attended a tournament, completing 947 rounds of debate. One of PUDLs teams finished second at the National Association of Urban Debate League Championships.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Not described on the e-filed return.
$101,689 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $101,689.
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 $86k to $58k (−32%).
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.
99% of Portland Urban Debate League’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $10k → $54k.
2 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 Urban Debate League’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 Urban Debate League has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 75% · 2021 100% · 2022 37% · 2023 63% — 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
22% of Portland Urban Debate League's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 38% 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
82% of Portland Urban Debate League's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
Portland Urban Debate League's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Portland Urban Debate League receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$10k
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 Urban Debate League
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Portland Urban Debate League: 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 Urban Debate League?
- Portland Urban Debate League (Oregon) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $215,273 to it, the largest being THE COLLINS FOUNDATION ($64,300). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Portland Urban Debate League have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $215,273 in grants to Portland Urban Debate League, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Portland Urban Debate League?
- THE COLLINS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $64,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Portland Urban Debate League 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 13 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