Funding search · EIN 830809479 · Portland, OR

Ninety-Nine Girlfriends

A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.

41
grants reported
$1.5M
total given
2022–2025
filing years
$35,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 20222025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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Top recipients

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  • Wisdom of the Elders1 grant · $70,000
  • Black Food Sovereignty Coalition1 grant · $70,000
  • Voz Workers Rights Education Project1 grant · $70,000
  • Project Lemonade1 grant · $65,000
  • Camp Elso1 grant · $65,000
  • All Ages Music2 grants · $65,000
  • Poic1 grant · $65,000
  • Path Home1 grant · $65,000
  • Working Theory Farm1 grant · $65,000
  • Albina Vision Trust1 grant · $65,000

Giving over time

$520,000
2022
$357,500
2023
$300,000
2024
$300,000
2025

Grant history

All 41 reported grants, largest first.

  • $70,000

    Black Food Sovereignty Coalition · Portland, OR · 2022

    To support mission in igniting black and brown communities to participate as owners and movement leaders within food systems, placemaking, and economic development.

  • $70,000

    Voz Workers Rights Education Project · Portland, OR · 2022

    To support programs advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in working with marginalized and under-resourced communities.

  • $70,000

    Wisdom of the Elders · Portland, OR · 2022

    To support its mission to record, preserve and share the oral history, cultural arts, language concepts and traditional ecological knowledge of native american elders, storytellers, and scientists in collaboration with read all
  • $65,000

    Albina Vision Trust · Portland, OR · 2025

    To support mission of organization

  • $65,000

    Crag Law Center · Portland, OR · 2025

    To support mission of organization

  • $65,000

    Poic · Portland, OR · 2025

    To support mission of organization

  • $65,000

    Project Lemonade · Portland, OR · 2025

    To support mission of organization

  • $65,000

    Camp Elso · Portland, OR · 2024

    To support mission of organization

  • $65,000

    Finability · Portland, OR · 2024

    To support mission of organization

  • $65,000

    Path Home · Portland, OR · 2024

    To support mission of organization

  • $65,000

    Working Theory Farm · Hillsboro, OR · 2024

    To support mission of organization

  • $50,000

    All Ages Music · Portland, OR · 2023

    To continue providing different platforms for young people of color and lgbtq+ youth and access to the music industry.

  • $50,000

    Cares Northwest · Portland, OR · 2023

    To assist in stopping child abuse and neglect through multidisciplinary prevention, medical evaluation, and ongoing treatment in partnership with the community.

  • $50,000

    Community Energy Project · Portland, OR · 2023

    To support empowering people with information and tools and facilitating connections to resources.

  • $50,000

    North By Northeast Community Center · Portland, OR · 2023

    Support clinic work devoted to african american/black health.

  • $50,000

    Oregon Tradeswoman · Portland, OR · 2023

    Support commitment to help women achieve economic independence through training, career education, advocacy and leadership development in the skilled trades.

  • $45,000

    Bravo Youth Orchestra · Portland, OR · 2022

    To help build a strategic capital reserve to six months of operating expenses.

  • $45,000

    Poic Rahs · Portland, OR · 2022

    General operating to help focus on infrastructure, stability, processes and procedures of organization to meet growth.

  • $45,000

    Trash for Peace · Portland, OR · 2022

    Operation support with goal of growing sustainability and collectivity, hire ground score worker for ongoing training.

  • $42,500

    Womenfirst Transition & Referral Ctr · Gresham, OR · 2023

    To support continued services to mostly black women, justice-involved women, and women in recovery and raise wages of staff to align with current cost of living.

  • $35,000

    Psu Foundation Dr Mlk Jr School · Portland, OR · 2023

    To help achieve goals to grow visiting artist audience to entire school, partner graduate students in a mentor/mentee relationship and expand offerings like ksmoca to serve students in the albina neighborhood through gr read all
  • $35,000

    Psu Foundation for Dr Mlk Jr School Museum of Contemp Art · Portland, OR · 2022

    To help achieve goals to grow visiting artist audience to entire school, partner graduate students in a mentor/mentee relationship and expand offerings like ksmoca to serve students in the albina neighborhood through gr read all
  • $35,000

    Womenfirst Transition & Referral Center · Gresham, OR · 2022

    To support continued services to mostly black women, justice-involved women, and women in recovery and raise wages of staff to align with current cost of living.

  • $30,000

    Constructing Hope · Portland, OR · 2022

    To help expand training facility for more construction training graduates.

  • $15,000

    All Ages Music · Portland, OR · 2022

    To continue providing different platforms for young people of color and lgbtq+ youth and access to the music industry.

  • $15,000

    Communities United for People · Portland, OR · 2022

    To support we rise program, a 6 month online cohort model bringing organizers together to build and learn together.

  • $15,000

    Northwest Instituto Latino · Portland, OR · 2022

    To continue serving latinx community through culturally specific peer support and educational programs.

  • $15,000

    Rosewood Initiative · Portland, OR · 2022

    Continue to build safe, healthy & vibrant community where neighbors can thrive together and to help put down roots at new location in hopes of future ownership.

  • $15,000

    Wild Diversity · Portland, OR · 2022

    To support creating a personal connection to the outdoors for black, indigenous, people of color, queer and trans communities through outdoor adventures and education.

  • $10,000

    Bienestar · Hillsboro, OR · 2025

    To support mission of organization

  • $10,000

    Center for Black Excellence · Portland, OR · 2025

    To support mission of organization

  • $10,000

    The Blueprint Foundation · Portland, OR · 2025

    To support mission of organization

  • $10,000

    Xcelerate Women · Portland, OR · 2025

    To support mission of organization

  • $10,000

    Community Doula Alliance · Portland, OR · 2024

    To support mission of organization

  • $10,000

    Depave · Portland, OR · 2024

    To support mission of organization

  • $10,000

    Self Enhancement · Portland, OR · 2024

    To support mission of organization

  • $10,000

    Taking Ownership Pdx · Portland, OR · 2024

    To support mission of organization

  • $7,500

    Bark · Portland, OR · 2023

    To support transforming mt hood national forest into a place where natural processes prevail, wildlife thrives and where local communities have a social, cultural, and economic investment in its restoration & preservati read all
  • $7,500

    Black Parent Initiative · Portland, OR · 2023

    To support helping families achieve financial, educational and spiritual success.

  • $7,500

    Open Signal · Portland, OR · 2023

    To assist in nurturing the change-making power of community media

  • $7,500

    Voz Workers' Rights Education Project · Portland, OR · 2023

    To support programs advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in working with marginalized and under-resourced communities.

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Source: IRS Form 990, Schedule I, as filed by this organization. These are grants already paid. Grants paid directly to individuals are reported to the IRS only as totals, so they do not appear as named lines here.