Portland Chinese Scholarship Foundation

Analysis

Portland Chinese Scholarship Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Portland, OR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1965, 61 years ago. 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, Portland Chinese Scholarship Foundation reported income of $81k and spending of $36k, leaving 55% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $42k to $81k (+94%), an average of +18% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 300%. Over the whole period it spent 29% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Portland Chinese Scholarship Foundation sits at the 31st percentile: it is larger than about 31% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 31st percentile, and in the 31st percentile within OR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Oregon Science Teachers Association ($81k), The Arc Wayne County ($81k) and Guernsey County Feed My People Inc ($81k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 64% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.3m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.3m.