Oregon · Nonprofit
RELIEF NURSERY INC
RELIEF NURSERY INC (Oregon) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,338,523 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,457,569). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.3M
- Funders on record
- 63
- Grants received
- $6.3M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Relief Nursery Inc does
Mission
Relief nursery prevents the cycle of child abuse and neglect through early intervention that focuses on building successful and resilient children, strengthening parents, and preserving families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Therapeutic early childhood program provides a unique combination of individualized classroom and home-based developmental experiences for children newborn to six years of age. All aspects of the program focus on the specific issues of children from multi-stressed families who have experienced trauma, abuse, and/or stress, or are at risk for such experiences. Multiple features contribute to the therapeutic nature of this program and its effectiveness in preventing child abuse and neglect. The curriculum and environment provided at relief nursery support the individual needs of each child. Teachers, specialists, and parents work together to establish individual goals for each child. The therapeutic classroom is part of a larger system providing comprehensive, ameliorating services to both child and family. To provide continuity between school and home, the child's classroom teacher is also the family's home visitor, helping to enhance parenting skills, promoting parent-child relationships, and creating a healthy and nurturing home environment. In this program, the focus is on the social and emotional development. There is a low ratio of adults to children in the classrooms.
$2,404,061 spent$364,026 earned by the program40% of program spendingAccessing success is a substance use disorder recovery support program for parents participating in other relief nursery programs. Accessing success provides peer support, parent for recovery support group and social skills activities to support parents in achieving and maintaining recovery. A unique aspect of accessing success is that it is staffed by peer support interventionists who are in recovery themselves, to provide mentoring and support for parents. The parents for recovery support group includes transportation, childcare and a light meal for parent and child.
$916,989 spent15% of program spendingThe outreach program provides "front-end" intake, enrollment and crisis response for families at initial contact. It uses a strength-based and creative approach, offering choices and support to families in a compassionate manner. In addition to intake and resource referrals, outreach provides respite childcare, home visits and access to other relief nursery services such as family literacy events, mental health counseling and substance use disorder recovery support.
$489,838 spent8% of program spendingMental health professionals help children and their families navigate the challenges of early childhood through a variety of therapeutic approaches tailored to each family's unique needs. These services are provided at no cost to relief nursery families including play-based therapy and counseling services.
$2,238,165 spent$888,972 earned by the program37% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,049,053.
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.
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 $9.8M to $11M (+15%).
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 53% · 2018 49% · 2019 55% · 2020 51% · 2021 50% · 2022 54% · 2023 58% · 2024 49% · 2025 62%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Sutherland Kelly
Executive director
Board chair
Hartley Dale
Chair personnel finance co
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $644k → $841k.
11 of 63 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 RELIEF NURSERY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 63 funders by total. 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
RELIEF NURSERY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
66% 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 RELIEF NURSERY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 30% · 2019 27% · 2020 30% · 2021 35% · 2022 30% · 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
54% of RELIEF NURSERY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
70% of RELIEF NURSERY 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. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Government funding RELIEF NURSERY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9.2M on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$7.3M
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$842k
- DISTRIBUTION TO CONTRACT SVC PROVIDER$673k
- OTHER SPECIAL PAYMENTS$295k
- OTHER DISTRIBUTION TO TAXABLE SUBRECIP$128k
- DISTRIBUTION TO INDIVIDUALS$650
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 RELIEF NURSERY 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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
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 RELIEF NURSERY 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 RELIEF NURSERY INC?
- RELIEF NURSERY INC (Oregon) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,338,523 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,457,569). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RELIEF NURSERY INC have?
- IRS filings report 63 organizations giving $6,338,523 in grants to RELIEF NURSERY INC, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RELIEF NURSERY INC?
- THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,457,569 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RELIEF NURSERY 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 63 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