WinCo Foods Portland Open donates $725,000 to local charities

In its first year, the WinCo Foods Portland Open made plenty of headlines on the course. Now off the course the event still is in the news. WinCo Foods CEO Steven Goddard announced that the tournament generated $725,000 for local charities, the second-highest charitable contribution for a first-year event in the 25-year history of the Web.com Tour.

WinCo Foods will distribute the charitable funds through the WinCo Foods Foundation, which focuses on giving back in the areas of youth well being and education, military veterans and their families, and continuing efforts to fight the battle against hunger. Over 100 charities in Oregon and Southwest Washington will receive financial support from the WinCo Foods Portland Open through the WinCo Foods Foundation.

Contributing to this charitable outcome, WinCo Foods donated the entire gate back to the local community, and for the first time in Oregon Professional Sports history, 100% of the revenue from every ticket sold was given to charity through the Nabisco Tickets Fore Charity™ program. This program gave over 100 Portland-area non-profit organizations the opportunity to sell tournament tickets and keep 100% of all the proceeds from their ticket sales. $164,522 in tickets were sold to the event, and Portland Youth For Christ led the way with over $35,000 in ticket sales. Nabisco was also generous enough to provide a $50,000 Bonus Pool to reward the non-profits for their efforts, bringing the 2014 Tickets Fore Charity™ grand total to $214,522.

Next year’s WinCo Foods Portland Open presented by Kraft will be played August 24-30, 2015.