Oregon · Nonprofit
SELF ENHANCEMENT INC
SELF ENHANCEMENT INC (Oregon) receives grants from 95 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,695,275 to it, the largest being 1803 FUND ($5,050,000). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $36M
- Funders on record
- 95
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $51M
What Self Enhancement Inc does
Mission
Self enhancement, inc. (sei) is dedicated to providing opportunity for all youth to realize their full potential. Working with schools, families and partner community organizations, sei provides support, guidance, and opportunities to achieve personal and academic success. Sei brings hope to individual young people and enhances the quality of community life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Youth servicesSelf Enhancement Inc. Is one of the nation's most comprehensive and successful youth development organizations. Self enhancement has a 44 year history serving the portland community. Over 90% of the program participants have overcome significant barriers to success such as poverty, family substance abuse, gang involvement, absent parents, and low academic achievement. These students have gone on to become positive contributing citizens, which is defined by self enhancement as at least 2 years of post-secondary education or living wage employment. The core program services are based on the relationship model in which adults take on the roles of teacher, parent, and mentor. (cont on sch o)self enhancement services are offered within a culture of success; are comprehensive (summer, in-school, and after-school); and offered on a continuum (serving students from age 8 through 25). Each student is assigned to a coordinator who monitors the student's attendance, behavior, and academic achievements.an individual success plan is created for each student that sets academic, personal, and social goals. Academic support, arts experiences, recreation activities, community service…
$9,863,500 spentof which $2,216,441 as grants38% of program spendingExtended day servicesself enhancement serves nearly 5,000 youth each year, through a variety of programs. Self enhancement manages 17 schools uniting neighborhoods (sun) community schools and provides social and support services for educational success under the multnomah county sun service system for both region 2 and african american target outreach population. Self enhancement also provides services to youth under multnomah county's school attendance initiative and portland children's levy after-school program.
$5,056,855 spentof which $393,871 as grants19% of program spendingCommunity + family programs self enhancement recognizes that at-risk youth most often come from at-risk families. The positive work sei does with young people during the day and after-school can easily be unraveled by an unhealthy situation in the home. For this reason, self enhancement's programs include outreach services to families including case management, parenting classes, energy assistance, job placement, and referrals to outside resources. Self enhancement provides culturally competent support services through the in-home safety and reunification program, the domestic and sexual violence prevention program, the parent-child development program, the healthy homes program, and the community works program. Self enhancement also provides assistance (cont on sch o) with basic needs such as housing and energy assistance. Self enhancement currently serves over 9,000 individuals and families for all age groups through community and family programs.in addition to direct youth and family services, sei advances its mission through the development and longterm stewardship of affordable housing and community assets. Sei's programs are supported by stable, missionaligned housing assets…
$10,544,835 spentof which $4,765,660 as grants$465,295 earned by the program40% of program spendingOther programming includes capacity building programs.
$639,356 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $26,104,546.
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 2021 to 2022, from $28M to $44M (+58%).
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 74% · 2018 79% · 2019 58% · 2020 82% · 2021 49% · 2022 54% · 2023 74% · 2024 69% · 2025 61%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of SELF ENHANCEMENT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (25% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Trent Aldridge
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $607k → $1.2M.
17 of 95 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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: $15M from 11 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Self Enhancement Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money SELF ENHANCEMENT INC raised.
From the IRS filings of SELF ENHANCEMENT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 95 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
SELF ENHANCEMENT INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% 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
63% 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 SELF ENHANCEMENT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 33% · 2019 15% · 2020 19% · 2021 19% · 2022 24% · 2023 28% — 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
25% of SELF ENHANCEMENT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
87% of SELF ENHANCEMENT INC's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
SELF ENHANCEMENT INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 102 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 102 unclassified nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding SELF ENHANCEMENT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $63.1M on record — $49.4M federal, $13.7M state.
- Department of Education$27.9M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$20.8M
- Department of Justice$673k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$10.0M
- OTHER DISTRIBUTIONS TO SUBRECIPIENTS$1.1M
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$1.1M
- OTHER SPECIAL PAYMENTS$638k
- PAYMENTS TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$615k
- DISTRIBUTION TO CONTRACT SVC PROVIDER$150k
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 SELF ENHANCEMENT INC
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
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 8 related entities
- Sei - Strong Development · disregarded
- Self Enhancement Foundation · exempt
- Self Enhancement Growth Alumni Partnership Fund · exempt
- 5020 Aa Limited Partnership · partnership
- Alberta Alive Limited Partnership · partnership
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SELF ENHANCEMENT INC?
- SELF ENHANCEMENT INC (Oregon) receives grants from 95 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,695,275 to it, the largest being 1803 FUND ($5,050,000). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SELF ENHANCEMENT INC have?
- IRS filings report 95 organizations giving $15,695,275 in grants to SELF ENHANCEMENT INC, 48 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SELF ENHANCEMENT INC?
- 1803 FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,050,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SELF ENHANCEMENT INC 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 95 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