Oregon · Nonprofit
ISAAC'S ROOM
ISAAC'S ROOM (Oregon) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,516,725 to it, the largest being RALPH HULL FOUNDATION ($232,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Isaac's Room does
Mission
Isaac's Room exists to help divested young people build the capacity to rise to the challenges of life. We provide experiences that build character, confidence, and skills and a community of people who support the quest to be the hero of your story and a contributor in society. We focus on building critical work skills in a team concept through a working internship at the ike box coffee shop, the family business of Isaac's Room. We also provide one-on-one mentorship, housing options, personal wellness training, financial literacy, and enrichment in support of the workforce training. Divested means powerless. In the life of a divested young person, it refers to the state of being powerless to face the challenges of life with any confidence or effectiveness. Youth can be divested by external factors: foster care, disrupted education, poverty, addiction, incarceration or as a consequence of their own destructive choices. Either way, these are the kids who, on their current trajectory.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The ike box is the downtown salem home of Isaac's Room. It is a spacious coffee house located in a delightfully quirky 100 year old building that beautifully reflects the organization's mission of transformation. The building itself symbolizes how a place, or a person, once considered beyond help or hope can be restored and become a valued part of the community. The ike box serves the mission strategically as a social enterprise, operating as a business that generates both financial and social benefits. As the family business of Isaac's Room, it provides opportunities for youth to gain work experience, develop new skills, and interact with the broader community, while also creating a source of self funding that strengthens and sustains the organization.
$1,552,259 spent79% of program spendingIsaac's Room serves divested youth, with a particular focus on low income youth, those in foster care, youth involved in the juvenile justice system, and those who have become disengaged from education. Many of these young people are viewed as a growing burden on social systems, yet they represent an enormous and often untapped resource for their communities. A divested young person is someone who feels powerless to face life's challenges with confidence or effectiveness. Whether they are victims of difficult circumstances or experiencing the consequences of their own destructive choices, many are on a path toward adulthood without the skills or support needed to succeed, creating significant personal and societal costs. Behind those circumstances are young people with names, stories, and dreams. They may appear tough on the outside, but many are simply children in adult bodies who are uncertain and afraid about what their future holds. Isaac's Room is committed to changing that trajectory by inspiring youth to invest in meaningful relationships, embrace challenging opportunities, and participate in experiences that build character, practical skills, and self confidence. The goal…
$149,882 spent8% of program spendingIke quest is a program of Isaac's Room that provides these opportunities to divested youth and has demonstrated success in engaging them in the pursuit of making life better by transforming their thinking, developing healthier habits, and ultimately changing the trajectory of their lives. Ike quest is built on a strength based philosophy that emphasizes building capacity rather than simply fixing problems. Challenges become more manageable when paired with the confidence that comes from unconditional support and the motivation of a meaningful purpose. These young people need practical resources like food, shoes, and job skills, but even more importantly, they need the ability and confidence to obtain those things for themselves. Through proven best practices, ike quest helps participants move from being perceived as liabilities to becoming valuable assets within their communities. As a result, youth are getting off probation and court rosters, achieving and maintaining sobriety, improving their overall wellness, returning to and completing school, securing employment, and becoming active contributors to both commerce and culture.
$256,658 spent13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,958,799.
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 2017 to 2018, from $698k to $1.5M (+122%).
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: 2020 31% · 2021 39% · 2022 50% · 2023 58% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
35% of ISAAC'S ROOM’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 11 funders, grant income rose $5k → $265k.
8 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 ISAAC'S ROOM’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
ISAAC'S ROOM has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
51% 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 ISAAC'S ROOM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 46% · 2019 27% · 2020 47% · 2021 42% · 2022 23% · 2023 26% — 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
50% of ISAAC'S ROOM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
76% of ISAAC'S ROOM's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $463k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
ISAAC'S ROOM has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding ISAAC'S ROOM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $486k on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$486k
- CATERING SERVICES$50
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 ISAAC'S ROOM
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
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 ISAAC'S ROOM: 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 ISAAC'S ROOM?
- ISAAC'S ROOM (Oregon) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,516,725 to it, the largest being RALPH HULL FOUNDATION ($232,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ISAAC'S ROOM have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $1,516,725 in grants to ISAAC'S ROOM, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ISAAC'S ROOM?
- RALPH HULL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $232,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ISAAC'S ROOM 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 28 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