Cascades Cannery
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 334136829
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Bend, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5413902138
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,427
- Expenses
- $3,755
- Assets
- $4,022
- Liabilities
- $1,350
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- James Maxwell Radnich (President / Production Manager)
People named in this filing
- James Maxwell Radnich (President / Production Manager)
- Jesse Preston Harris Hindson (Treasurer)
- Maegen Laree Hindson (Director of Programs / Operations Manager)
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
Cascades Cannery is a food preservation initiative based in Central Oregon. We partner with local farms to reduce food loss, increase food security, and create value-added products that nourish our community year-round. Every jar carries the story of the growers who made it possible, ensuring farmers remain visible and valued. By turning the region's seasonal abundance into shelf-stable meals, we preserve what matters: sustaining agriculture, fighting hunger, and building resilience across our region's food system.
What it reported doing in 2025
Community Outreach & Market Pilot - Conducted a retail pilot program at regional farmers markets to validate consumer demand for preserved surplus crops. This data-gathering phase was essential to prove the viability of the 'Farmers Visibility Initiative,' ensuring that future large-scale processing will effectively reduce agricultural waste and provide stable revenue for the broader local farming community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 56.7%; rating input score 57
- Program expense ratio: 97.1%; rating input score 97
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 41.6%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.07; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.34; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 56.7% of revenue deployed · 97.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $4K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 57/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.