Oregon · Nonprofit
OREGON WORKER RELIEF
OREGON WORKER RELIEF (Oregon) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $615,000 to it, the largest being MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST ($500,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.5M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $615k
- Net assets
- $17M
What Oregon Worker Relief does
Mission
Oregon Worker Relief is organized exclusively for the promotion of social welfare. To provide disaster relief for oregonians that face economic and systemic hardship and do not qualify for traditional forms of relief or benefits.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The healthcare interpreter and the orgegon worker relief fund ceased conducting operations in 2024.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Universal representation - also known as equity corps of oregon, universal legal representation has enrolled and provided legal services to 5,564 oregonians.
$5,436,255 spentof which $300,338 as grants69% of program spendingClimate change fund - in 2024, the climate change fund has provided more than $875k to 719 agricultural workers who are experiencing economic hardship.
$992,700 spentof which $875,657 as grants13% of program spendingHome fund eviction prevention - in 2024, the home fund has provided more than $588k to 213 immigrant oregonians who are experiencing economic and housing hardship.
$926,383 spentof which $908,171 as grants12% of program spendingSee no stranger - in late 2023, Oregon Worker Relief was able to begin setting up the see no stranger program under the umbrella of multnomah county's funds to provide housing to unhoused oregonians.
$187,500 spentof which $127,500 as grants2% of program spendingImmigrant justice program - the immigrant justice program provides attorney access to immigrant oregonians facing deportation.
$168,607 spentof which $25,000 as grants2% of program spendingOregon Worker Relief fund - the Oregon Worker Relief fund has provided financial relief in every county in oregon. From 2020 to 2024, the Oregon Worker Relief fund has provided more than $123 million funds to 63,129 immigrant oregonians in need. In 2024, Oregon Worker Relief fund provided more $15 million to 6 thousand recipients.
$147,401 spent2% of program spendingRio indigenous languages fund - indigenous languages fund has been able to distribute $41k to 28 interpreters of indigenous languages.
$38,535 spentof which $38,372 as grants0% of program spendingHealthcare interpreter - from 2020 to 2024, the healthcare interpreter fund has distributed $500,000 for the services of 363 interpreters. In 2024, the healthcare interpreter fund has distributed more than $400 thousand for the services of 365 interpreters.
$167 spent0% of program spending
The 8 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,897,548.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $41M to $20M (−52%).
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: 2022 100% · 2023 92% · 2024 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of OREGON WORKER RELIEF’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (69% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 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.
Board chair
Martha Sonato
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 3 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.3M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Causa of Oregon). These are real filings, and they are not money OREGON WORKER RELIEF raised.
From the IRS filings of OREGON WORKER RELIEF’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
OREGON WORKER RELIEF leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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
97% of OREGON WORKER RELIEF's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $100k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
OREGON WORKER RELIEF holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 804 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 804 public safety & disaster nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding OREGON WORKER RELIEF receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $124.3M on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO OTHER GOVERNMENTS$75.0M
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$18.7M
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$16.1M
- OTHER SPECIAL PAYMENTS$14.0M
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$500k
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 OREGON WORKER RELIEF
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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OREGON WORKER RELIEF: 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 OREGON WORKER RELIEF?
- OREGON WORKER RELIEF (Oregon) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $615,000 to it, the largest being MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST ($500,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OREGON WORKER RELIEF have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $615,000 in grants to OREGON WORKER RELIEF.
- Who is the largest funder of OREGON WORKER RELIEF?
- MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OREGON WORKER RELIEF 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 FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 3 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