Oregon · Nonprofit
SKANNER FOUNDATION
SKANNER FOUNDATION (Oregon) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $181,750 to it, the largest being PROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES - OREGON ($71,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $94k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $182k
- Net assets
- $274k
What Skanner Foundation does
Mission
"challenging people to shape a better futurenow" is the cornerstone of the Skanner Foundation's mission. Oue scholarship program help students accomplish their educational goals to insure a bright and successful future within our communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Martin luther king prayer breakfast; conference & awards ceremony - several hundred people attended the conference. During the year ended may 31,2025 the Skanner Foundation provided scholarships to 59 individuals and made 10 donations to various other non-profit organizations.
$170,355 spentof which $158,050 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $170,355.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $293k to $274k (−6%).
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.
27% of SKANNER FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (77% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
Bernard Foster
Exec dir/cha
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $9k → $34k.
1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 SKANNER FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 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
SKANNER FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
72% 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 SKANNER FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 69% · 2022 58% · 2023 60% — 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.
Where its funders are
SKANNER FOUNDATION draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k 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
SKANNER FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 6,328 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,328 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding SKANNER FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $113k on record — $100k federal, $13k state.
- Department of Agriculture$100k
- AGENCY PROGRAM RELATED SERVICES$4k
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$3k
- INSTATE GROUND TRANSPORTATION$3k
- OTHER SERVICES$2k
- EMPLOYEE RECRUIT, WELLNESS & SAFETY$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 SKANNER 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
97% 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 SKANNER 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 SKANNER FOUNDATION?
- SKANNER FOUNDATION (Oregon) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $181,750 to it, the largest being PROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES - OREGON ($71,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SKANNER FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $181,750 in grants to SKANNER FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SKANNER FOUNDATION?
- PROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES - OREGON is the largest funder on record, with $71,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SKANNER 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.
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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 2021–2025), and the filings of 8 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