Oregon · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF TENANTS
COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF TENANTS (Oregon) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,905,266 to it, the largest being MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST ($952,469). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $-283098
What Community Alliance of Tenants does
Mission
To educate and empower tenants to demand safe, stable and affordable rental homes. We believe that housing is the basis of a strong community. So we bring tenants together to organize and collectively advocate for fair and equal protections in housing practices and policies.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Tenant education program - the tenant education department served over 2,000 households in oregon through our renters' rights hotline. Staying true to our mission and values of serving the most vulnerable members of our communities, about 50% of the renters we served were extremely low income (0-30% mfi) and about 40% of them identified as having a disability. We would not have been able to help as many renters as we did without the many volunteers who helped us return calls on our hotline, helped present helpful information at community events such as fairs and workshops. In the education department, our amazing volunteers and members contributed over hundreds of hours to cat and our community. [continued in schedule o]we attended and hosted 50 community events providing tenants with renters education and advocacy information throughout the portland metropolitan area at public schools, partnering agencies, public libraries and at tenants' buildings. Cat maintained the program called the tenant protections team, which is a culturally specific program in partnership with apano, sei, and irco. Through the new program, our 3 staff members are able to work within the communities that…
$1,766,518 spentof which $75,000 as grants$161,337 earned by the program75% of program spendingOrganizing and leadership development (o&ld) program - the o&ld program organized multiple buildings: 1) in need of significant repairs, 2) facing building wide evictions, or 3) facing significant rent increases. We work with tenants, community based organizations, and appointed and elected government officials. We conduct renters rights, tenant power, and community building workshops. We also conduct direct action and advocacy events that call attention to the needs of vulnerable tenants statewide. We also conduct the tenant leadership council, which is a group of tenant leaders who actively engage in advocacy and organizing through the o&ld program.
$577,059 spentof which $34,968 as grants24% of program spendingHousing justice program (hjp) - convened stable homes for oregon families coalition, to run a tenant protections campaign to pass sb611 rent stabilization and rent assistance programs and resources. At the state legislature. 40% of oregon's population are renters, and are subject to no-cause evictions or sudden rent increases with no limits. We engaged thousands of tenants statewide, with advocacy opportunities to help change these statewide laws to better support tenants. We also conducted, press events, direct action, and advocacy opportunities to increase the number of tenant members participating with cat through renter week of action, through our partnership with the fairshot, stable homes, right to the city alliance and homes for all campaign at the national level.
$18,543 spent$8,334 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,362,120.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $1.6M to $165k (−90%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 37% · 2018 80% · 2019 67% · 2020 57% · 2021 78% · 2022 83% · 2023 91% · 2024 78% · 2025 84%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF TENANTS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Kim Mccarty
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $62k → $131k.
6 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF TENANTS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 16 of 17 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF TENANTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
40% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF TENANTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 39% · 2019 64% · 2020 27% · 2021 26% · 2022 63% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
33% of COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF TENANTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
84% of COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF TENANTS's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $357k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF TENANTS has grown faster than half of the 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF TENANTS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.4M on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$6.3M
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$90k
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$5k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF TENANTS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF TENANTS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF TENANTS?
- COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF TENANTS (Oregon) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,905,266 to it, the largest being MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST ($952,469). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF TENANTS have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $1,905,266 in grants to COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF TENANTS, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF TENANTS?
- MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $952,469 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF TENANTS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 17 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing