Social Venture Partners Portland

Analysis

Social Venture Partners Portland is a registered charity in United States, based in Portland, OR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 2005, 21 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Social Venture Partners Portland reported income of $1.6m and spending of $1.7m, spending 108% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.1m to $1.6m (+48%), an average of +10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 44%. Over the whole period it spent 85% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Social Venture Partners Portland sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile, and in the 85th percentile within OR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Highland Park Community Foundation ($1.6m), Community Impact Fund ($1.6m) and Edwards Foundation Inc ($1.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 90% and program service revenue 9.5% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $154k (9.0% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $352k. At year end it held assets of $1.9m against liabilities of $451k, net assets of $1.4m. It reported 7 employees.