Oregon · Nonprofit
Portland YouthBuilders
Portland YouthBuilders (Oregon) receives grants from 83 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,283,885 to it, the largest being Worksystems Inc ($5,876,195). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.3M
- Funders on record
- 83
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $3.8M
What Portland YouthBuilders does
Mission
To support young people who are committed to changing their lives to become self-sufficient, contributing members of the workforce and their community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Vocational training - pyb students elect to participate in one of two vocational tracks that build skills toward qualification for living-wage jobs.construction programs: led by trained professionals, construction students gain a firm grounding in all aspects of construction, from pouring foundations to installing interior finishes. Working with clients such as habitat for humanity, they produce housing for low-income families in the community. Pyb offers two construction training programs - the intensive 9-week bridge program for high school graduates, and a full year program for youthbuild students working toward high school completion.computer technology program: in 2001, pyb was selected as one of four youthbuild sites around the country to receive funding for a pilot computer technology program. Today, students at pybs technology worksite are trained in computer coding, it services, and manufacturing basics. They provide technical support to nonprofit organizations and teach basic computer skills classes at senior centers, libraries, and the local worksource center.
$1,790,158 spent$127,512 earned by the program54% of program spendingStudent support - pyb provides the following support services to students:counseling and support services: pyb is committed to supporting each students personal growth and stability. Upon arrival at pyb, students are assigned counselors who meet regularly with them to discuss barriers, help set and monitor personal and career goals, and provide crisis intervention, mediation, and referrals to community resources.financial assistance: youthbuild students receive a monthly stipend to assist with living expenses. All participants earn performance-based incentives for achieving certifications, maintaining excellent attendance and meeting other program benchmarks. Need-based assistance is also available via cross-departmental case management teams, which review student progress weekly. Graduate services: pyb is committed to students long term success. After students complete the core pyb program, counselors and career coaches continue to meet with them individually, providing a minimum of one year of intensive follow-up support. Students in college or apprenticeship programs receive multiple year graduate support until they complete their post-secondary goals.
$703,337 spent$50,095 earned by the program21% of program spendingAcademic education - pyb students earn their high school diplomas or ged certificates. Academic teachers instruct students in small groups and one-on-one, using project-based curricula that prepare students for college level work and successful enrollment in post-secondary education and training programs.
$531,014 spent$37,829 earned by the program16% of program spendingOutreach and recruitment - pybs thorough, multi-step selection process reflects the importance placed on enrolling young people who meet the eligibility criteria and are likely to benefit from and succeed in the program. Outreach strategies include referrals from a large network of youth serving organizations, social media, mailings, and community presentations.
$268,115 spent$19,091 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,292,624.
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. 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 2018 to 2019, from $1.7M to $2.5M (+47%).
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: 2017 49% · 2018 55% · 2019 40% · 2020 53% · 2021 62% · 2022 60% · 2023 72% · 2024 66% · 2025 68%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of Portland YouthBuilders’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 39 funders, grant income rose $608k → $1.7M.
11 of 83 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 YouthBuilders’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 83 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 YouthBuilders leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
78% 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 YouthBuilders.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 46% · 2019 32% · 2020 35% · 2021 34% · 2022 33% · 2023 41% — 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
40% of Portland YouthBuilders's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
78% of Portland YouthBuilders's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 YouthBuilders's funding base is broadening — from 17 funders to 39 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,152 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Portland YouthBuilders receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.9M on record — $5.6M federal, $2.3M state.
- Department of Labor$5.6M
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$1.2M
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$766k
- DISTRIBUTION TO INDIVIDUALS$144k
- OTHER DISTRIBUTIONS TO SUBRECIPIENTS$144k
- DISTRIBUTION TO COMM COLLEGE DISTRICTS$51k
- PAYMENTS TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$3k
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 YouthBuilders
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 YouthBuilders: 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 YouthBuilders?
- Portland YouthBuilders (Oregon) receives grants from 83 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,283,885 to it, the largest being Worksystems Inc ($5,876,195). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Portland YouthBuilders have?
- IRS filings report 83 organizations giving $13,283,885 in grants to Portland YouthBuilders, 57 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Portland YouthBuilders?
- Worksystems Inc is the largest funder on record, with $5,876,195 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Portland YouthBuilders 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 83 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