Oregon · Nonprofit
Portland Workforce Alliance
Portland Workforce Alliance (Oregon) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $930,213 to it, the largest being ONPOINT COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION ($236,500). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $818k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $930k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Portland Workforce Alliance does
Mission
PWA builds enduring partnerships between businesses and Portland-metro high schools. By providing students with career-learning opportunities, we enrich their academic knowledge, inspire them to graduate and help them make informed choices after high school. PWA helps young people find good careers and support the regions economic vitality.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
NW Youth Careers Expo-The NW Youth Careers Expo is the Northwests largest career-learning opportunity for high school students. It features approximately 200 booths hosted by employers and postsecondary partners in all industry sectors and attracts thousands of students from area high schools. Its purpose is to 1 educate students about the amazing range of career opportunities in our region and the skills/education needed to pursue those jobs, and 2 help Oregon employers build an educated, skilled and diverse workforce. Sponsors cover event costs and suppport our year-round work with students and employers. The March 2024 Expo attracted 240 exhibitor booths hosted by 175 different vendors, engaged 740 volunteers and drew 5,078 students and educators from 70 high schools.
$280,399 spent52% of program spendingPortland Workforce Alliance works year-round with high schools, employers, colleges and other postsecondary partners to create meaningful career-learning experiences that help high school students prepare for life after graduation. In the 2023-24 school year we served 8,867 students. We welcome all students, with extra outreach and support for students from underrepresented and marginalized communities. Every year, we create thousands of opportunities for high school students to discover their career aspirations. In a typical year, we provide Portland-area students with up to 10,000 career-learning experiences, including mentorships, career days, mock interviews, and the annual NW Youth Careers Expo.
$258,200 spent48% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $538,599.
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 2023 to 2024, from $774k to $1.1M (+44%).
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.
66% of Portland Workforce Alliance’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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
Susan Nielsen
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $26k → $382k.
2 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 Portland Workforce Alliance’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
Portland Workforce Alliance has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
57% 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 Portland Workforce Alliance.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 42% · 2019 47% · 2020 33% · 2021 27% · 2022 17% · 2023 29% — 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
44% of Portland Workforce Alliance's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
88% of Portland Workforce Alliance's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $113k 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
Portland Workforce Alliance holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Portland Workforce Alliance receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $150k on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$149k
- DUES/MEMBERSHIPS$250
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 Portland Workforce Alliance
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
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 Portland Workforce Alliance: 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 Portland Workforce Alliance?
- Portland Workforce Alliance (Oregon) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $930,213 to it, the largest being ONPOINT COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION ($236,500). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Portland Workforce Alliance have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $930,213 in grants to Portland Workforce Alliance, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Portland Workforce Alliance?
- ONPOINT COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION is the largest funder on record, with $236,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Portland Workforce Alliance 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 20 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