Oregon · Nonprofit
SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS PORTLAND
SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS PORTLAND (Oregon) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,650,567 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,409,330). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $991k
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $4.7M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Social Venture Partners Portland does
Mission
Svp contributes financial resources, professional expertise, and connections to mission-driven organizations in order to strengthen their operations, grow their capacity, and expand their impact in our community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The primary mission of svp portland is to provide capacity-building support to the community grantees we call community partners. In 2025, the partnership of 86 individuals invested $444,652 in cash grants and 4,357 hours (a non-cash value of $1,089,250) and together, these represent a value of $72,500 of community investments into a portfolio of 14 community organizations and collaborative projects that are focused on ensuring that all children regardless of race, ethnicity, wealth, religion, gender, or zip code have access to high-quality, culturally-relevant early learning experiences.
$370,080 spentof which $98,642 as grants66% of program spendingSvp portland runs a cohort accelerator program called ready to grow that supports early childhood leaders with the skills and business expertise they need to foster growth and expansion within their organizations, thereby expanding access to high-quality early childhood education in multnomah & washington counties. Our 2025 cohorts supported 26 participants across 23 early learning organizations, collectively serving nearly 700 children and employing over 100 teachers.
$164,758 spent$50,000 earned by the program30% of program spendingAs part of svp portland, the encore fellows program provides a source of new talent for community organizations, helps individuals transition into social-impact work, and gives corporations and foundations a new way to positively impact their communities. Encore fellows are carefully matched with their host community organizations for a time-limited project after retiring from a professional career. This program ended in 2025.
$23,329 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $558,167.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2020 to 2021, from $1.3M to $1.9M (+49%).
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: 2020 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS PORTLAND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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
Lauren Johnson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $143k → $724k.
15 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS PORTLAND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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
SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS PORTLAND 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
62% 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 SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS PORTLAND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 29% · 2019 20% · 2020 43% · 2021 56% · 2022 27% · 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
43% of SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS PORTLAND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
61% of SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS PORTLAND's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.8M that is directly attributable, 70% of it comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.8M 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
SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS PORTLAND runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,505 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,505 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS PORTLAND
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
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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 SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS PORTLAND: 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 SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS PORTLAND?
- SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS PORTLAND (Oregon) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,650,567 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,409,330). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS PORTLAND have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $4,650,567 in grants to SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS PORTLAND, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS PORTLAND?
- THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,409,330 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS PORTLAND 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 34 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