Oregon · Nonprofit
STREET ROOTS INC
STREET ROOTS INC (Oregon) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,124,190 to it, the largest being MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST ($871,110). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 63
- Grants received
- $4.1M
- Net assets
- $5.6M
What Street Roots Inc does
Mission
Street roots creates income opportunities for people experiencing homelessness and poverty by producing a newspaper and other media that are catalysts for individual and social change.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Vendor program- street roots vendor program engaged with 380 vendors, and together they sold an average of 5,250 papers per week for 273,000 papers for the year.. Vendors received low barrier access to income, as well as a sense of community, through their participation with street roots. In addition to earning income, vendors also obtained resource navigation to needed services in the community; accessed basic needs items (tents, socks, gloves, hygiene products); engaged in continued education related to creative writing and media; and co-created opportunities for peer support. Street roots also opened a shower and laundry facility for vendors in this fiscal year. In addition, the vendor program produced and distributed approximately 200,000 rose city resource guides, which provide critical information about local services and supports related to homelessness, housing instability, crisis services, and impacts of poverty. Editorial program - street roots editorial program produced a weekly paper, offering trusted, independent journalism to residents around the metro region. The street roots editorial team were recognized through the annual region 10 society of professional…
$1,988,573 spent$92,353 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,988,573.
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 2021 to 2022, from $840k to $4.5M (+436%).
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 17% · 2018 15% · 2019 18% · 2020 12% · 2021 7% · 2022 66% · 2023 47% · 2024 10% · 2025 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of STREET ROOTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
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.
Board chair
Nick Bjork
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $66k → $923k.
18 of 63 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 STREET ROOTS 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
STREET ROOTS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
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 STREET ROOTS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 66% · 2019 40% · 2020 18% · 2021 54% · 2022 37% · 2023 27% — 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
47% of STREET ROOTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
77% of STREET ROOTS 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. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
STREET ROOTS INC has grown faster than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding STREET ROOTS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $14k on record.
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$14k
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 STREET ROOTS 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
82% 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 STREET ROOTS 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 STREET ROOTS INC?
- STREET ROOTS INC (Oregon) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,124,190 to it, the largest being MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST ($871,110). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STREET ROOTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 63 organizations giving $4,124,190 in grants to STREET ROOTS INC, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STREET ROOTS INC?
- MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $871,110 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STREET ROOTS 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing