Oregon · Nonprofit
SOUTHWEST NEIGHBORHOODS INC
SOUTHWEST NEIGHBORHOODS INC (Oregon) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,493 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($13,075). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $18k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $37k
- Net assets
- $49k
What Southwest Neighborhoods Inc does
Mission
SWNI empowers citizen action to improve and maintain the livability of Southwest neighborhoods
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Southwest Neighborhoods, Inc. (SWNI) provides a safe, welcoming and inclusive means of addressing community livability issues. SWNI is the district coalition for 16 of Portland's 95 neighborhood associations. SWNI purchases Zoom licenses so each neighborhood can meet safely online to discuss livability issues. When conditions allow SWNI helps with safe in-person meetings such as outdoor picnic and concerts. SWNI has well ventilated meeting space when COVID conditions in Portland allow for indoor meetings. SWNI is an all volunteer run organization with over one hundred enthusiastic participants. SWNI is funded entirely by community contributions. In the fiscal Year 2022-2023 SWNI received donations from 55 individuals and a few small corporate donations. SWNI is the fiscal sponsor for many small neighborhood funds. One of SWNI's most important goals is inclusiveness and making sure everyone is welcomed. In September 2022 SWNI partnered in holding a Native American Beaver Festival that was well attended and reviewed. We are sponsoring another festival for September 2023. SWNI services include a web page and email lists for each neighborhood and committee to communicate with members…
$4,000 spent26% of program spendingSWNI published an online newspaper and website for Southwest Portland. The mailing list is over 2,000 and many others get it on the SWNI web page. Each neighborhood writes an article about neighborhood events There are articles about resources and events all over Portland. The newspaper has a very dedicated, mostly volunteer staff. The newspaper includes articles from other community organizations such as Neighborhood House and SWTrails.
$7,500 spent48% of program spendingSWNI sponsors several committees to work on livability issues. Equity & Inclusion Committee: The Equity & Inclusion Committee acts to improve and expand SWNI's engagement with under-represented communities and community-based organizations in Southwest Portland. More specifically, the committee: * Partners with diverse, self-identifying organizations * Works to support more representative governance to improve decision-making in government * Supports progressive change in the culture of civic engagement through education and outreach efforts * Provides policy recommendations and guidance to SWNI's NAs and standing committees on issues related to equity and inclusion Parks & Community Centers Committee: The Parks and Community Centers Committee acts as a forum in the community to promote parks, community centers; public spaces such as squares and monuments; open spaces of any types, including cemeteries, golf courses, and school fields; and recreational and educational programs of Portland Parks & Recreation (PP&R). More specifically, the committee: * Develops working relationships with PP&R that allow the community a voice in decisions that affect parks and park programs in SW…
$4,000 spent26% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $15,500.
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 2022 to 2023, from $73k to $60k (−17%).
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 87% · 2019 80% · 2021 57%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of SOUTHWEST NEIGHBORHOODS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (77% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 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 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $7k → $7k.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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 SOUTHWEST NEIGHBORHOODS INC’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
SOUTHWEST NEIGHBORHOODS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
98% 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 SOUTHWEST NEIGHBORHOODS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 91% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“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
98% of SOUTHWEST NEIGHBORHOODS INC'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 $600 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Oregon, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $37k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
SOUTHWEST NEIGHBORHOODS INC's revenue fell 97% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,376 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Government funding SOUTHWEST NEIGHBORHOODS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $300 on record.
- ADVERTISE, PUBLICITY, PUBLISH/PRINT SRVS$300
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 SOUTHWEST NEIGHBORHOODS 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.
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SOUTHWEST NEIGHBORHOODS INC?
- SOUTHWEST NEIGHBORHOODS INC (Oregon) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,493 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($13,075). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SOUTHWEST NEIGHBORHOODS INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $37,493 in grants to SOUTHWEST NEIGHBORHOODS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTHWEST NEIGHBORHOODS INC?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $13,075 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTHWEST NEIGHBORHOODS 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 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