Business for a Better Portland
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 814241889
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Portland, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5035586393
- Rating
- 94
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $151,846
- Expenses
- $182,909
- Assets
- $68,716
- Liabilities
- $70,400
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Bridgid Blackburn (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Stephen Green (Executive Dir.)
- Alicia Chapman (Director)
- Bryson Davis (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Organization's Primary Exempt Purpose: Business for a Better Portland makes a positive difference in the city we love by combining the strength of business advocacy with the power of technology and grassroots social change. Our goal is to insure Portland is anequitable city where prosperity can be shared by all.Program Service Accomplishments: By forging collaborative relationships between the business community, non-profit organiztions, and government, Business for a Better Portland (BBPDX) advocates for a Portland that is equitable and prosperous for all. BBPDX provides a platform for businesses in Portland, Oregon, to become educated on and discuss social and policy problems impacting their businesses, such as homelessness, transportation, and housing. Businesses affiliated with BBPDX believe that by engaging on social issues they will improve quality of life for Portlanders, which will in turn provide a stronger customer base for their businesses. BBPDX coordinates monthly policy f
What it reported doing in 2025
Program Service Accomplishments: By forging collaborative relationships between the business community, non-profit organiztions, and government, Business for a Better Portland (BBPDX) advocates for a Portland that is equitable and prosperous for all. BBPDX provides a platform for businesses in Portland, Oregon, to become educated on and discuss social and policy problems impacting their businesses, such as homelessness, transportation, and housing. Businesses affiliated with BBPDX believe that by engaging on social issues they will improve quality of life for Portlanders, which will in turn provide a stronger customer base for their businesses. BBPDX coordinates monthly policy focal points, such as housing, transportation, and homelessness, to facilitate collective action by affiliated businesses.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 15
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -20.5%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.38; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.02; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 18.4%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.9% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $183K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.