Central Oregon Avalanche Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 271929412
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-T 2024, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Bend, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5412611888
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Safety Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $104,261
- Expenses
- $121,791
- Assets
- $219,121
- Liabilities
- $16,893
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRYCE KELLOGG (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- BRYCE KELLOGG (PRESIDENT)
- ANDREW EATON (SECRETARY)
- MARK RAMINA (TREASURER)
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 central Oregon avalanche center empowers the backcounty community to make informed decisions by providing avalanche forecasting, observations, and education.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provide avalanche forecasting to the public via web platform for the central Oregon cascades, 7 days per week from december thru april and paulina peak on weekends, plus one mid-week professional observation. Maintain three remote access weather stations, at moon mountain, paulina peak, and paulina ranger station.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 83% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 77%; rating input score 77
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -16.8%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.8; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.8% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 25.8% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 90% of revenue deployed · 77% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $94K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.