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TORUS

TORUS (Oregon) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $181,750 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($70,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$166k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$182k
Net assets
$74k
4/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 70%
01What it does

What Torus does

Mission

Language education and cultural exchange

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Torus mobile application. In 2025, Torus published a working version of the app which serves as a comprehensive repository of English language learning materials and other teaching tools with an integrated messaging platform.

    $13,918 spent
    16% of program spending
  2. Virtual 1-to-1 and group English classes. Torus provided free remote English classes to those of all backgrounds, but directed its services to immigrant, refugee, and low-income populations residing in the Portland Metro area. Torus had 2,327 virtual one-on-one class visits and 164 virtual group/multi learner class visits.

    $37,744 spent
    42% of program spending
  3. In-person English group classes in Portland, OR metro area. Torus provided free in-person English classes to people living in the Portland metro area. Torus primarily served immigrant, refugee, and low-income populations and had 1,270 in-person class visits.

    $37,744 spent
    42% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $89,406.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($302k) Expenses 100 ($243k) Net assets 100 ($102k)2022 Revenue 31 ($93k) Expenses 48 ($118k) Net assets 76 ($78k)2023 Revenue 27 ($83k) Expenses 50 ($122k) Net assets 38 ($39k)2024 Revenue 48 ($146k) Expenses 55 ($133k) Net assets 51 ($52k)2025 Revenue 55 ($166k) Expenses 59 ($144k) Net assets 73 ($74k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (55)Expenses (59)Net assets (73)Peer revenue range

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 $78k to $39k (−50%).

$102k
$78k
$39k
$52k
$74k
20212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 62%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

95% of TORUS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$59k
’21
−$24k
’22
−$39k
’23
$13k
’24
$22k
’25
5.0
months of
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

Ramin Tokhi

Executive Director

Board chair

Conall Anderson

Board President

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income fell $25k → $23k.

2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 TORUS’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

TORUS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

52% 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 TORUS.

39%
largest funder
74%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 46% · 2023 65% — 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.

Where its funders are

79% of TORUS's grant income comes from Oregon funders.

WI
OR

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’21
’22
’23
Oregon out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $70k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

TORUS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin13% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−14% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding TORUS receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $405k on record.

State$405k
21
22
24
25
Top programs
  • PAYMENTS TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$188k
  • DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$151k
  • DISTRIBUTION TO INDIVIDUALS$65k

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 TORUS

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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

OR

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TORUS: 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 TORUS?
TORUS (Oregon) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $181,750 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($70,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TORUS have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $181,750 in grants to TORUS, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TORUS?
THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $70,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TORUS 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 10 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