Cast (Catch a Special Thrill) for Kids Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 911582848
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Salem, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5419920441
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,484,389
- Expenses
- $1,411,591
- Assets
- $1,315,358
- Liabilities
- $142,689
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SCOT LANEY (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JAY YELAS (EXECUTIVE DI): $145,294 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We believe every child is worth celebrating, can overcome limitations and have a victorious day through a joyful day of fishing. Kids, their families, and community volunteers come together for an explosion of fun and inspiration. C.a.s.t. For kids foundation hosts annual opportunity through the sport of fishing to organize and hold events where these children are paired with experienced fisherman and taken out on boats for a day of fishing and outdoor recreation.
What it reported doing in 2025
The c.a.s.t. For kids program is designed to create an adaptive environment where children, ages 5-17, and adults can both benefit, sharing a day of fun on the water they may not otherwise have the opportunity to experience, exposing them to the sport of fishing, and the enjoyment of the outdoors. It encourages continued participation in fishing by developing skills in the children along with their parents as well as gifting them with fishing gear. Through the experience, we provide education and understanding to children about fish as a natural resource. The local community is strengthened as the event seeks to increase the awareness of all participants, parents, sportsmen, and volunteers, to the capabilities of children with disabilities. Number of people benefitted: 14,145 in 2025
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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.
- 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: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.9%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 80.3%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $2.82 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 8; 8th 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.9%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.93; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.3%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.6% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77.9% of revenue deployed · 80.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $145K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 8/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 44/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 37/100.