Oregon · Nonprofit
FOLK-TIME INC
FOLK-TIME INC (Oregon) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $364,454 to it, the largest being CAREOREGON INC ($235,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.8M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $364k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Folk-Time Inc does
Mission
Connecting people who share the experience of living with mental illness through peer support and community based activities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Expanding social programs: our social programs, including ftbm and oregon city, continue to provide vital spaces for connection, skill-building, and creative expression. Members socialize, make friends, learn new skills, and share their talents in a peer-led environment. Increased member engagement: we have successfully grown member participation and fostered a more diverse membership, ensuring a more inclusive community.launch of peer respite: in 2025, we established one of the first two peer respites in oregon. It offers non-clinical care in a residential space for those experiencing a self-identified mental health crisis, providing peer support 24/7/365 and allowing guests to navigate crises without the restrictive and often traumatic experience of a hospital visit. Guests can stay up to 2 weeks and have universally reported increased wellness and greater understanding of the underlying cause of their crisis.wellness & enrichment activities: our programs include nutritious lunches, art, chorus, writing groups, games, field trips, internet access, bowling, sing-alongs, karaoke, tai chi, yoga, and monthly birthday celebrations. Both our connection center and our peer respite have…
$1,215,631 spent$150,924 earned by the program50% of program spendingFolktime peer support specialists: play a vital role in community behavioral health programs and health centers, offering compassionate, peer-led support to individuals navigating mental health challenges. Folktime peers are embedded in two outpatient health centers and five community programs serving all of clackamas county, where they provide an alternative to traditional crisis care. By leveraging their own lived experiences, these trained specialists build trust, reduce stigma, and create a safe space for clients to seek help and connect with resources.one of their key contributions is supplementing clinical care with support based on their shared lived experience of mental health. Peers also conduct community outreach, engaging with county residents who have experienced chronic hospitalizations and working to provide meaningful, nonjudgmental support outside of clinical settings. As integral members of the treatment team, they collaborate closely with caseworkers and health providers to enhance client care.over the past year, folktime has deepend our work with clackamas county's behavioral health division, including embedding peers in their mobile crisis teams, their crisis…
$541,713 spent$56,081 earned by the program22% of program spendingThe folktime training center:has achieved significant success in expanding its offerings and impact across oregon. By bringing intentional peer support training in-house, the program has been able to provide more training opportunities, especially as pandemic restrictions eased. The center continues to offer these courses statewide, with both in-person and online options to increase accessibility.in the reporting time, the training center delivered over 25 trainings and technical assistance sessions, playing a crucial role in certifying peer support specialists and strengthening the behavioral health workforce. The program has also provided ongoing coreflections and supervision across the state, fostering professional development and peer collaboration.recognized for its expertise, the training center has been selected to host multiple continuing education opportunities and team-building initiatives, further supporting the growth and resilience of the peer workforce. Additionally, new funding has enabled the development of several new curricula, expanding culturally specific and responsive training opportunities to better serve diverse communities. Through these efforts, folktime…
$655,522 spent$70,282 earned by the program27% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,412,866.
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 2023 to 2024, from $776k to $2.1M (+167%).
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 91% · 2018 62% · 2019 60% · 2020 67% · 2021 62% · 2022 65% · 2023 62% · 2024 52% · 2025 84%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of FOLK-TIME INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Peter Starkey
Executive director
Board chair
Susan Palmer
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $15k → $283k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 FOLK-TIME INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
FOLK-TIME INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 FOLK-TIME INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 71% — diversifying over time.
“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.
Where its funders are
85% of FOLK-TIME INC's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $59k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
FOLK-TIME INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding FOLK-TIME INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.8M on record.
- OTHER SPECIAL PAYMENTS$1.9M
- OTHER DISTRIBUTION TO TAXABLE SUBRECIP$745k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$179k
- MEDICAL SERVICES$26k
- PAYMENTS TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$12k
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$7k
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 FOLK-TIME INC
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 FOLK-TIME INC: 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 FOLK-TIME INC?
- FOLK-TIME INC (Oregon) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $364,454 to it, the largest being CAREOREGON INC ($235,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOLK-TIME INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $364,454 in grants to FOLK-TIME INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOLK-TIME INC?
- CAREOREGON INC is the largest funder on record, with $235,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOLK-TIME INC 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.
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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 7 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