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Verde Inc

Verde Inc (Oregon) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,565,470 to it, the largest being MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST ($3,238,419). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$4.1M
Funders on record
68
Grants received
$13M
Net assets
$4.4M
36/68 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 64%
01What it does

What Verde Inc does

Mission

Verde establishes environmental businesses to employ and train low-income adults, create contracting opportunities for minority-owned and women-owned businesses, and bring environmental infrastructure to low-income neighborhoods, fostering the connection between economic vitality and environmental protection and restoration.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Verde builds: verde builds is a licensed and bonded commercial general contractor level 2 in the state of oregon. Verde builds was established to create contract opportunities with minority-owned and women-owned businesses and to provide workforce development opportunities for people who come from low-income, people-of-color communities who are often left out of portlands green economy.

    $1,357,013 spent$51,850 earned by the program
    48% of program spending
  2. Advocacy: the advocacy program builds the power of low-income people and people of color through education, grassroots organizing, and policy advocacy to create policy and investments to benefit low-income and people of color communities. The program focuses on reducing energy cost burden, reducing carbon, and making mobility a universal right.

    $840,877 spent
    30% of program spending
  3. Education and engagement: the program engages residents, peer organizations and policymakers about the connection between protecting the environment and making a good living, empowering low-income people and people of color to drive environmental resources into their neighborhoods in response to existing needs. The program delivers environmental education for middle school youth of color and leadership development for adults (lideres verdes).

    $473,914 spent
    17% of program spending
  4. Living cully: verde serves as the backbone organization and leads living cully, a collaboration of community-based organizations operating in the cully neighborhood in northeast portland. The program delivers direct services to residents, generates policy and investments to benefit low-income and people of color residents and builds community power through education and organizing.

    $148,298 spent
    5% of program spending
  5. Suma:verde served as sumas fiscal sponsor per a written fiscal sponsorship agreement. In support of its charitable purpose, suma performed digital organizing. Suma worked with verde and other partners to build technology capacity in frontline communities; digital enterprise. Suma worked with verde and other partners to develop and implement a digital platform that increases access to environmental services for frontline communities; digital justice. Suma worked with verde and other partners to increase frontline community leadership of technology policymaking, including environmental technologies. Suma no longer required a fiscal sponsor as of june 30, 2025.

The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,820,102.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($4.2M) Expenses 100 ($4.2M) Net assets 100 ($992k)2018 Revenue 172 ($7.2M) Expenses 156 ($6.6M) Net assets 167 ($1.7M)2019 Revenue 115 ($4.9M) Expenses 103 ($4.3M) Net assets 223 ($2.2M)2020 Revenue 65 ($2.8M) Expenses 88 ($3.7M) Net assets 127 ($1.3M)2021 Revenue 98 ($4.1M) Expenses 57 ($2.4M) Net assets 299 ($3.0M)2022 Revenue 81 ($3.4M) Expenses 83 ($3.5M) Net assets 289 ($2.9M)2023 Revenue 94 ($4.0M) Expenses 79 ($3.3M) Net assets 357 ($3.5M)2024 Revenue 127 ($5.4M) Expenses 118 ($5.0M) Net assets 406 ($4.0M)2025 Revenue 98 ($4.1M) Expenses 89 ($3.7M) Net assets 448 ($4.4M)
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Revenue (98)Expenses (89)Net assets (448)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 $3.3M to $5.2M (+57%).

$2.3M
$2.1M
$2.4M
$1.6M
$3.3M
$3.3M
$5.2M
$5.6M
$5.7M
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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.

2017
2018
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2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 51% · 2018 48% · 2019 29% · 2020 10% · 2021 16% · 2022 33% · 2023 41% · 2024 54% · 2025 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

95% of Verde Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (16% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,617 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$11k
’17
$668k
’18
$556k
’19
−$960k
’20
$1.7M
’21
−$98k
’22
$638k
’23
$397k
’24
$422k
’25
14
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.

Board chair

Desiree Williams-Rajee

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed111010101313121011
Joined·+2+3+0+4+5+1+0+5
No longer listed·33015224
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $346k → $1.6M.

12 of 68 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 Verde Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 68 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

Verde Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

37% 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 Verde Inc.

26%
largest funder
40%
top three
~11
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 22% · 2019 51% · 2020 8% · 2021 23% · 2022 15% · 2023 24% — 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

40% of Verde Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

Verde Inc draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 14 states in all.

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MN
MI
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OR
NV
PA
CA
CO
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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Oregon out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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

Verde Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,012 employment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin10% · above the median
Months of reserve14.1mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−0% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,012 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding Verde Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.0M on record — $720k federal, $1.3M state.

Federal$720k
grants $720kcontracts $0
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23
Top agencies
  • Department of Energy$645k
  • Department of the Interior$75k
State$1.3M
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By state
  • OR$748k
  • MD$431k
  • VT$112k
  • FL$44

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 Verde 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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 19%Fundraising 6%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

82%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

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Questions and answers

Who funds Verde Inc?
Verde Inc (Oregon) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,565,470 to it, the largest being MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST ($3,238,419). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Verde Inc have?
IRS filings report 68 organizations giving $12,565,470 in grants to Verde Inc, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Verde Inc?
MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $3,238,419 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Verde 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.

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 68 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