1000 Friends of Oregon
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 930642086
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Portland, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5034971000
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,068,403
- Expenses
- $2,041,278
- Assets
- $5,947,733
- Liabilities
- $231,449
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
26 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SAMUEL DIAZ (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- GIL KELLEY (PRESIDENT)
- MERIEL DARZEN (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- SAMUEL DIAZ (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $148,213 total reported compensation
- MARY KYLE MCCURDY (ASSOC DIRECTOR AND MANAGING ATTORNEY): $111,516 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
1000 friends of Oregon promotes healthy working lands, great communities, shared prosperity, and strong democracy with and for all oregonians.
What it reported doing in 2024
Healthy working lands:- protected over 26,500 acres of our farms, forests, and watersheds from development applications that would have converted and fragmented the natural and working lands. - grew our farmer advisory committee and worked with members to engage their legislators on bills and policies that would affect working lands.- secured over $3 million in state funding to support Oregon farmers and ranchers through the Oregon agricultural heritage program. (continued on schedule o)- hosted a 2025 affiliate conference at Oregon state university to support our statewide affiliate network and approximately 100 oregonians interested and passionate about land conservation and development- took on land use legal cases at the land use board of appeals and the circuit court to uphold protections for farms, forests, and watersheds.- shared critical resources for wildfire preparedness on our trusted wildfirereadyoregon.org website.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% 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: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74.7%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 74.8%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: $11.17 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.3%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.91; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.7%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 74.7% of revenue deployed · 74.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $1.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $148K · 26 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $170K reported
- Consistency: 39 of 39 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 4 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 41/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.