Cascade Head Biosphere Collaborative
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 921694289
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Otis, OR, USA
- Phone
- 0000000000
- Rating
- 44
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Environmental Education and Outdoor Survival Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $98,101
- Expenses
- $128,740
- Assets
- $143,485
- Liabilities
- $84,590
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Duncan Berry (President)
People named in this filing
- Duncan Berry (President)
- Dan Twitchell (SecretaryTreasurer)
- Mary Guss (Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The purpose of the Cascade Head Biosphere Collaborative is to create through education art research and public involvement a vibrant place for all species to work live and play We have three distinct but synergistic programs EDUCATION - CLIMATE - COMMUNITY A We have developed and provided 21st Century Environmental Education to three different school districts and over a thousand of students B Conducted high quality climate data through the use of crowd-sourced community science across four interconnected habitats from forest to sea and C Engaged a wide range of community members through art workshops marine reserve connected sand art field experiences art science presentations and community events The sentinel site for all of these offerings is the unique land sea connection within the UNESCO Cascade Head Biosphere Region including the Cascade Head Experimental Forest Cascade Head Marine Reserve and the three Cascade Head Marine Protected Areas
What it reported doing in 2025
0
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 71% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -31.2%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.11; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.59; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -150% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 19.6% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 46.2% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.