Voz Workers Rights Education Project

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
261357376
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Portland, OR, USA
Phone
5032336787
Rating
83
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Alliance/Advocacy Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$430,164
Expenses
$412,890
Assets
$491,689
Liabilities
$16,189

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • LISA HUBBARD (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • KARLA CASTANEDA (EXEC DIRECTO): $93,260 total reported compensation
  • MARY CHAPARRO (EXEC DIRECTO): $89,664 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Voz is a worker-led organization that empowers diverse day laborers and immigrants to improve their working conditions and protect civil rights through leadership development, organizing, education and economic opportunity. Voz operates the mlk jr. Worker center, which connects hundreds of portland day laborers per month to local employers. Voz offers skills, health, safety, arts, culture, advocacy, and leadership development workshops to over 300 day laborers per year.

What it reported doing in 2024

2. Leadership and education program vozs leadership and education program empowers members to lead campaigns, share knowledge, and shape community priorities. Our day laborer committee (dlc) facilitates monthly assemblies that drive political education, decision-making, and mobilization. In 2024, members participated in disaster preparedness workshops, and worker safety and environmental justice education. The emergency preparedness cohort trained 10 leaders in first aid, emergency response, and climate readiness, while also helping voz define our organizational environmental justice framework. As a worker-led organization, voz also piloted a new leadership model where one member took a hands-on role, co-leading our dispatch program for a month. Members advanced leadership beyond Oregon - four voz leaders (including two youth) joined ndlons national asamblea in New York, returning to lead visioning sessions at voz. We strengthened partnerships with community allies, including pueblo unido, to support immigrant rights and help workers navigate the asylum process. With these efforts, voz is ensuring that immigrant workers are recognized as essential leaders in building a just, climate-resilient, and immigrant-affirming future.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 67% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 75
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 41
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 76.7%; rating input score 77
  • Program expense ratio: 79.8%; rating input score 80
  • Fundraising efficiency: $13.83 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 4%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.19; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 44.3%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 10% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 76.7% of revenue deployed · 79.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $330K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $93K · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 48/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.