Oregon · Nonprofit
IMMIGRANT STORY
IMMIGRANT STORY (Oregon) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $226,324 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($71,679). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $206k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $226k
- Net assets
- $339k
What Immigrant Story does
Mission
Our mission is to foster empathy and build a more inclusive community by sharing immigrants' stories. We envision a compassionate world that celebrates immigrants and values diversity. We share stories with live storytelling events, exhibits around the Portland/Metro area, stories posted to our website, and podcasts to name a few. The stories told by immigrants showcase their experiences, hurdles they encountered, and their successes.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
We shared immigrants' stories through The Immigrant Story Live events. These events take place 3-4 times per year at various locations. For 2025, the main event was held at the Patricia Reser Center for the Arts. The other events were held at two universities and Portland Center Stage.
$61,034 spentof which $61,034 as grants86% of program spendingWe award small scholarships to students majoring in journalism or a related field where students write stories about immigrants or participate in podcast production. Each student is assigned a mentor who coaches the student in the art of writing, publishing articles, and creating a portfolio.
$2,600 spentof which $2,600 as grants4% of program spendingThe organization produces several podcasts each year in it's Many Roads To Here program. For 2025, eight podcasts were produced featuring success stories and what hurdles were overcome.
$6,152 spentof which $6,152 as grants9% of program spendingThe Immigrant Story had two other minor programs during 2025. We published a book in a prior year and sold a number of copies. Costs related to the project were $869. We also worked on a Food Cart project to see if it would be a viable way to feature immigrants who ran food cart businesses and the kinds of foods they sold. Costs related to this project were $43.
$912 spentof which $697 as grants$2,157 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $70,698.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $201k to $339k (+69%).
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: 2025 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of IMMIGRANT STORY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $6k → $26k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 IMMIGRANT STORY’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
IMMIGRANT STORY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
50% 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 IMMIGRANT STORY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 58% · 2022 19% · 2023 42% — 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.
How long its funders stay
20% of IMMIGRANT STORY's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 64% 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
87% of IMMIGRANT STORY's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $97k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
IMMIGRANT STORY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding IMMIGRANT STORY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $75k on record — $10k federal, $65k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$33k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$32k
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 IMMIGRANT STORY
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
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 IMMIGRANT STORY: 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 IMMIGRANT STORY?
- IMMIGRANT STORY (Oregon) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $226,324 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($71,679). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does IMMIGRANT STORY have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $226,324 in grants to IMMIGRANT STORY, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IMMIGRANT STORY?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $71,679 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IMMIGRANT STORY 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 11 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing