Clackamas County Historical Society
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 936024919
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2009
- Location
- Oregon City, OR, US
- Phone
- (503) 655-5574
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Historical Societies & Historic Preservation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $262,366
- Expenses
- $466,838
- Assets
- $968,748
- Liabilities
- $45,118
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Cindi Jeskey (President)
- Lynda Myers (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Steve Bennett (Director)
- Wade Byers (Director)
- Bruce Hanson (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Dedicated to enriching the lives of current and future generations through collecting, preserving, and interpreting the history of Clackamas County
What it reported doing in 2024
In exhibits, We opened Jennings Lodge Camp: A Gathering Place for Faith, Community, and Revival, telling the story of the camps century-long role as a gathering place along the Willamette River. Nestled beneath a Cathedral of Trees, the camp welcomed families in faith and fellowship, as part of the national Camp Meeting Movement that began in the late 1700's. A special section also explores Oregon youth campssuch as Camp Meriwether, Camp Onahlee, and Camp Arrowheadcomparing their experiences to Jennings Lodge Camp. We launched a Museum Advisory Group and a Teacher Advisory Group to guide future exhibits and programs and began an oral history program by interviewing fourteen participants for the Jennings Lodge Camp Exhibit. Our exhibit team completed the first draft content of the upcoming Willamette River: Land, Culture, and History Exhibit, scheduled to open in Fall 2025.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 74% 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. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94.2%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 53.5%; rating input score 54
- Fundraising efficiency: $14.07 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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: -77.9%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.08; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.3% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 94.2% of revenue deployed · 53.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $250K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 27 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 54/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.