Oregon · Nonprofit
SOMALI AMERICAN COUNCIL OF OREGON
SOMALI AMERICAN COUNCIL OF OREGON (Oregon) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $613,239 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($186,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $613k
- Net assets
- $591k
What Somali American Council of Oregon does
Mission
SACOO mission is to empower the Somali community by enhancing relationships between members of the community and between the community and state wide and/or federal agencies while also promoting cultural expression and diversity. In partnership with existing Somali community organizations, SACOO conducts outreach and promotes dialog on public policy issues. Somali American Council of Oregon (SACOO) is dedicated to improving our community an environment by creating of hope and unity. We promise to work tirelessly to improve conditions in our community and affect positive change in the world around us. We affirm the importance of working together to find solutions. SACOO will operate lawfully and respectfully in all matters. We will not profit from our endeavors. SACOO mission is to empower the Somali community by enhancing relationships between members of the community and between the community and state wide and/or federal agencies while also promoting cultural expression.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
1. OREGON DEPARPTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES SACOO is committed to supporting Afghan families as they adjust to life in the United States by providing rental assistance and housing support. As newly arrived families work to rebuild their lives, SACOO's efforts help ensure they remain safely housed and avoid the risks of eviction. By offering this essential support, SACOO is helping families build stability and focus on education, employment, and family well-being as they settle into their new communities. Goals Achieved Through October 2024 - June 30, 2025; Funding: 1. SACOO served 24 Afghan households across the Portland Metro area, ensuring families remained stably housed. 2. Rental assistance supported newly arrived Afghan families in securing stable housing and avoiding eviction, allowing them to adjust to life in the U.S. while focusing on education and family well-being.
$438,289 spentof which $438,289 as grants28% of program spendingOREGON EMPLOYMENT DEPARTMENT: Over the past year, SACOO has actively addressed unemployment challenges by assisting individuals with filing for Unemployment Insurance benefits and accessing Paid Leave Oregon. Additionally, SACOO has supported claimants in their job search efforts by providing guidance on resume building, job applications, and career readiness resources. SACOO proudly served across different backgrounds and communities. Reaching individuals of statuses to ensure inclusive access to financial empowerment and opportunity. With the support of our funding partners, SACOO successfully achieved the following goals: 1. Increased Community Awareness: Raised awareness and understanding of Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits and related resources within the Somali community. 2. Improved Access and Financial Stability: Delivered UI-related services and support to individuals, resulting in improved access to benefits and enhanced financial stability for community members. 3. Capacity Building for Staff and Advocates: Strengthened the skills and confidence of UI staff and community advocates, enabling them to more effectively engage with and support the Somali community while…
$310,824 spentof which $310,824 as grants20% of program spending3. CITY OF PORTLAND AC - EARTH ADVANTAGE - SACOO is committed to supporting the community during the summer by providing air conditioning units to individuals affected by extreme heat. As temperatures rise, especially during heat waves, SACOO's efforts help ensure vulnerable residents stay cool and safe. By offering this essential support, SACOO is helping reduce the risk of heat-related illnesses and improving overall well-being throughout the hot season. With the support of Earth Advantage, SACOO successfully achieved the following goals: 1. Provided over 700 air conditioners to individuals living within City of Portland. 2. To ensure comfort and safety during the heat wave, we are providing air conditioning in all common areas. Residents are encouraged to stay indoors and make use of these cooled spaces to avoid heat-related health risks.
$68,614 spentof which $291,200 as grants4% of program spendingTRILLIUM - PROJECT GURI 1. Addressing Rent and Utility Needs: With Trillium funding, SACOO directly supports Portland-area households struggling with housing instability. The funding provided critical rent and utility assistance to prevent evictions and ensure families could maintain stable housing throughout the year. Our approach prioritizes both financial aid and client-centered case management, with an emphasis on long-term stability and wraparound support. This effort helped reduce housing insecurity across vulnerable populations and ensured access to essential services during times of crisis. 2. Population Served: SACOO proudly provided rent assistance across the Portland metro area, reaching 758 individuals to help families remain housed and stable throughout the year. With the support of Trillium funding, SACOO successfully achieved the following goals: - Provided rent assistance to 147 households, supporting a total of 758 individuals across the Portland metro area. - Helped prevent housing displacement by prioritizing families at risk of eviction, with services concentrated in high-need ZIP codes.
$243,177 spent15% of program spendingHEALTH AUTHORITY- TOBACCO: In 2024-2025, with the support of the Public Health Equity grant, SACOO (Somali American Council of Oregon) significantly expanded its commercial tobacco prevention efforts, focusing on culturally responsive community outreach, education, and youth engagement. Our work centered on preventing tobacco use, especially the growing issue of e-cigarette and hookah/shisha consumption among youth and underserved communities. This report highlights our achievements, community impact, partnerships, and activities carried out from July through June 2025. - Community Events & Outreach; - Hosted 7 culturally tailored tobacco prevention events that brought together youth, parents, and community leaders. Events included interactive educational activities and presentations focusing on the dangers o tobacco and e-cigarette use. - Strengthened collaboration with key partners, including David Douglas School District, to promote tobacco-free environments and co-host prevention programming. - Supported policy change efforts, promoted best practices in tobacco prevention, and worked to build a sustainable movement for tobacco-free living. Collaborated with Co-imagine health…
$229,167 spentof which $229,167 as grants14% of program spendingOREGON HEALTH AUTHORITY- OHP: 1. Addressing Healthcare Access and Social Determinants of Health: Over the past year, SACOO has provided direct support to hundreds of community members through our Oregon Health Authority-funded initiative to enroll eligible individuals in the Oregon Health Plan (OHP). We expanded our efforts to include vital wraparound services that address the social determinants of health (SDOH). 2. Population Served: SACOO takes an equity-centered approach in working with marginalized and underserved communities across the Portland Metro area. 3. Goals Achieved Through 2024-2025 Funding: With support from the Oregon Health Authority, SACOO has achieved the following: a. Successfully enrolled and renewed 450+ individuals into the Oregon Health Plan, helping ensure access to critical health services such as primary care, preventive screenings, and mental health care. b. In addition to healthcare enrollment, clients received access to services targeting food insecurity, stable housing, employment, and legal assistance-addressing multiple barriers to health equity. c. Our team of multilingual, culturally competent navigators worked directly with clients to build…
$105,160 spentof which $105,160 as grants7% of program spendingWASHCO-CLACKAMAS COUNTY-TOBACCO: Commercial Tobacco Prevention
$49,780 spentof which $49,780 as grants3% of program spendingPORTLAND OIC: The Youth Gang Violence Prevention Project works to support youth who are at risk of gang affiliation, crime, and substance abuse in high-risk areas within the Somali and African Community. The initiatives in this program include community engagement through educational workshops for parents, support groups, and youth on topics such as youth crime, gang involvement, substance abuse, effective communication, and positive parenting strategies. The project initiatives also include case management and mentorship, and sports programs (which is currently being facilitated at East Port Community Center and Southwest Community Center two times a week). In the case management, we work directly with at-risk youth, which include middle school, high school, college students, youth who dropped out high school, youths who have recently been released from jail or prison, and youth who are currently on probation from previous criminal convictions. Each week, we work on-on-one with each of these youth through office and home visits. We have supported several of these youth to create resumes and secure employment, apply and guide with the process to get into GED programs, support with…
$30,000 spentof which $30,000 as grants2% of program spendingOREGON DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES - HRSN- ODSH: Health Related Social Needs Services; Rental and Utility Assistance Referrals; WASHCO-CLACKAMAS COUNTY-TOBACCO; OHA LINES FOR LIFE/SUICIDE PREVENTION Real Time Payment Credit
$105,470 spentof which $105,470 as grants7% of program spending
The 9 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,580,481.
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 2022 to 2023, from $212k to $482k (+128%).
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: 2024 99% · 2025 76%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of SOMALI AMERICAN COUNCIL OF OREGON’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Osman Aden
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $20k → $136k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 SOMALI AMERICAN COUNCIL OF OREGON’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
SOMALI AMERICAN COUNCIL OF OREGON leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
82% 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 SOMALI AMERICAN COUNCIL OF OREGON.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 60% · 2020 61% · 2021 73% · 2022 55% · 2023 55% — 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 SOMALI AMERICAN COUNCIL OF OREGON's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
83% of SOMALI AMERICAN COUNCIL OF OREGON's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $202k 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
SOMALI AMERICAN COUNCIL OF OREGON has grown faster than half of the 718 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 718 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding SOMALI AMERICAN COUNCIL OF OREGON receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.0M on record.
- PAYMENTS TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$1.2M
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$583k
- DISTRIBUTION TO INDIVIDUALS$388k
- OTHER DISTRIBUTION TO TAXABLE SUBRECIP$365k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$305k
- AGENCY PROGRAM RELATED SERVICES$47k
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.
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In Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 SOMALI AMERICAN COUNCIL OF OREGON: 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 SOMALI AMERICAN COUNCIL OF OREGON?
- SOMALI AMERICAN COUNCIL OF OREGON (Oregon) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $613,239 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($186,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOMALI AMERICAN COUNCIL OF OREGON have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $613,239 in grants to SOMALI AMERICAN COUNCIL OF OREGON, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOMALI AMERICAN COUNCIL OF OREGON?
- THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $186,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOMALI AMERICAN COUNCIL OF OREGON 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing