Center for Rural Livelihoods
Legal name: Aprovecho
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 930764529
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Cottage Grove, OR, United States
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $367,746
- Expenses
- $349,937
- Assets
- $411,041
- Liabilities
- $4,206
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOSH FATTAL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- TAO ORION (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JOSH FATTAL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $46,347 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To create and strengthen pathways to rural livelihoods that harmoniously advance social, economic and ecological resilience. CRL’s Restoration Forestry program is focused on supporting the emergence of a new forestry in the region - one focused on rekindling community wellbeing while regenerating the landscapes in which we live. This internship is meant to help participants hone their land stewardship skills in a hands-on environment, supported by our staff and guest teachers while coming together to envision new directions and potentials for forestry in the Northwest. RESTORATION FORESTRY INTERNSHIP WORKFORCE TRAINING PROGRAM.
What it reported doing in 2025
Every year we continue our long term forestry research of selective thinning. Staff for the forestry research stay on our facilities and are encouraged to incubate their own mission-aligned projects. Over the course of the year, the incubator program served over 100 participants. Some participants come for day long workshops, others for residential trainings for weeks at a tine. The program helps entrepreneurs achieve significant business accomplishments, such as helping individuals enter local markets, gain technical skills, and develop new products. Land stewardship and education events in 2024 including two fire workshops, three agroforestry events, a natural building event as well as open houses and several other educational events for the community. Americorps, conservation corps and school groups participated in 120, 20, and 15 days of programming, respectively. The organization also partnered with eight mission-aligned organizations in hosting events. We managed our 40 acres campus and continued our selective thinning forestry research. We produced several kiln loads of biochar as part of educational trainings, thinned understory grand fir as part of training program for conservation corps, and re-built small construction of outbuildings as a mentored learning experience. Fertilized the land by introducing silvopasture practices to the land-thus removing several acres of invasive species, managed an orchard and expanded access to medicinal and nourishing plants, and many other aspects of land stewardship. This work has been part of our educational programming. Weve held open houses, weekend workshops, and a series called future fundamentals which emphasized various aspects of ecological practices.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 64% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 31
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 80.8%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $15.46 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: Limited
- 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: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.8%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.17; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.2%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 41% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.6% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 77% of revenue deployed · 80.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $283K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $46K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 48/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 39/100.