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ASSIST

EIN 46-4080885 PORTLAND, OR

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Revenue 2025
$641,282
Expenses 2025
$512,370

Program services were 82.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
G11
Classification
1000
Street
4412 S BARBUR BLVD STE 240

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

The mission of ASSIST is to officially advocate for and represent applicants with severe disabilities who are eligible for SSI and SSD benefits. ASSIST guides clients through all levels of the Federal Administrative claims review process. ASSIST is an income-generating service for its clients and a key element in the fight to end poverty. ASSIST's services, both guiding clients through the application process and educating other service providers on the process, benefit clients and the community.

  • In 2025 ASSIST continued to increase new revenue streams through grants and a Clackamas County Housing Division contract to serve more people with disabilities. Many grant requests were made following a robust grants calendar throughout the year. These severely disabled clients were helped to file Social Security Disability benefits (SSD) and Supplemental Security Income benefits (SSI) applications. We successfully completed 87 cases for our clients. Special outreach to organizations that serve vulnerable people in the Clackamas County metropolitan area were held.

    Expenses $421,365 · Grants $301,893 · Revenue $313,487

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Mellani Calvin

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $115,000
    From this org
    $115,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Ken Wilmot

    Director at Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Nastashia Minto

    Director at Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Phillip Kennedy-Wong

    Director at Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Denise Davis

    Director at Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sherry Franklin

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Amy Van Horn

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Deborah Kafoury

    Director at Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Aimeera Flint

    Director at Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $641,282
    Expenses
    $512,370
    Contributions
    $318,734
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $669,641
    Expenses
    $647,856
    Contributions
    $405,840
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $591,643
    Expenses
    $548,332
    Contributions
    $310,306
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $579,170
    Expenses
    $499,403
    Contributions
    $313,879
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $428,902
    Expenses
    $392,883
    Assets (EOY)
    $150,605

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $415,805
    Expenses
    $366,080
    Assets (EOY)
    $121,400

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $282,752
    Expenses
    $275,157
    Assets (EOY)
    $63,275

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $242,598
    Expenses
    $218,015
    Assets (EOY)
    $52,241

  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $144,830
    Expenses
    $125,178
    Assets (EOY)
    $25,820

  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $109,158
    Expenses
    $102,000
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,846

  • 2014 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $114,637
    Expenses
    $119,308
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,396

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2013

Tax period
1 January 2013 to 31 December 2013
Principal officer
Mellani Calvin
Mailing address
4412 SW Barbur Blvd Ste 200Portland OR 972394087
Website
www.programassist.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 9 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.