The Portland Foundation
Portland, IN · EIN 35-6028362. Reported 60 grants totalling $6,107,516 to 36 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For The Portland Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T31).
- How spread out its giving is. 36 distinct organizations, with 68% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- How much its list changes. 71% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $20,500. Half of what it reported fell between $11,306 and $50,365; the smallest was $8,500 and the largest $3,598,456. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
11 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $380,584 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portland Foundation Building Corporation Inc | Portland, IN | $4,181,883 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Arts Place Inc | Portland, IN | $236,254 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Arts Place Inc | Portland, IN | $231,037 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| John Jay Center for Learning | Portland, IN | $183,525 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| John Jay Center for Learning Inc | Portland, IN | $163,441 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Asbury United Methodist Church | Portland, IN | $145,573 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Jay County Boys Club Inc | Portland, IN | $102,229 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Jay County Community Center | Portland, IN | $92,775 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Jay County Baseball Club Inc | Portland, IN | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jay County Drug Prevention Coaliation | Portland, IN | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Pennville Community Center Inc | Pennville, IN | $49,185 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Jay County Historical Society Incorporated | Portland, IN | $48,703 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Jay County Historical Society | Portland, IN | $42,030 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| A Better Life-Briannas Hope | Portland, IN | $42,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Jay County 4-H Club | Portland, IN | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Trustees of Purdue University | West Lafayette, IN | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| West Jay Community Center Inc | Dunkirk, IN | $27,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Jay County Public Library | Portland, IN | $25,983 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Jay County Fair Association Inc | Portland, IN | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Redkey Junior League | Portland, IN | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Purdue University | West Lafayette, IN | $23,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Jay Randolph Developmental Services | Portland, IN | $22,708 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Glass Days Inc | Dunkirk, IN | $22,482 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Jay - Randolph Developmental Services Inc Rfd 3 | Portland, IN | $21,635 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Glass Museum of Dunkirk | Dunkirk, IN | $21,393 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| United Way of Jay County Inc | Portland, IN | $20,750 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| United Way of Jay County | Portland, IN | $20,040 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Jay County Drug Prevention Coalition | Portland, IN | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| West Jay Community Center | Dunkirk, IN | $17,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Cincinnatus League Inc | Portland, IN | $16,978 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jay County Pee Wee Football Inc | Portland, IN | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jay County Public Library | Portland, IN | $13,536 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jay School Corporation | Portland, IN | $12,800 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Youth Service Bureau of Jay County Inc | Portland, IN | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Midwest Pet Refuge | Portland, IN | $11,076 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Jay County 4TH of July Committeeinc | Portland, IN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
23 of 36 (64%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Arts Place Inc
ENHANCE THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR THE PEOPLE OF JAY COUNTY, INDIANA, NOW AND FOR GENERATIONS TO COME, BY BUILDING COMMUNITY ENDOWMENT
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 13 of 36 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 14 | $428,045 | $17,786 |
| 2022 | 11 | $380,584 | $13,411 |
| 2023 | 16 | $1,108,927 | $22,592 |
| 2024 | 19 | $4,189,960 | $21,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $20,500 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Indiana.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Portland Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 16 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 3 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 107 S Meridian Street, Portland, IN, 47371.
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