Coquille Watershed Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 931171301
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Coquille, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5413962541
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Farmland Preservation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,280,688
- Expenses
- $5,213,385
- Assets
- $1,880,631
- Liabilities
- $1,302,543
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRUCE FOLLANSBEE (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- LEAH CORRAL (EXECUTIVE DI): $57,950 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Coquille watershed association (coqwa) works collaboratively with communities and landowners to develop and implement voluntary watershed restoration, enhancement, and community engagement activities that promote healthy and resilient ecosystems and economies in the coquille watershed. Established in 1994 by local citizens concerned about the health of the watershed and its natural resources, coqwa establishes programs in restoration, monitoring, noxious weed abatement, and education that are valued and supported throughout the watershed. Coqwa serves all communities in the coquille watershed which is primarily located in coos and curry counties in the southwest central coast area of Oregon. Coqwa funds its many projects primarily from federal, state, and local grants, and contracts including funds from the us fish and wildlife service, us forest service, us bureau of land management, Oregon departments of agriculture and environmental quality, coquille indian tribe, and nonprofit such
What it reported doing in 2024
Coqwa works with ranchers, farmers, timber companies, coquille indian tribe, civic groups, and the ports of coquille and bandon to accomplish watershed projects. The coquille watershed is a 1,089 square mile area primarily in coos and portions of curry and douglas counties. Watershed projects are categorized into three program areas described below. The restoration program provides habitat for salmon, steelhead, other fish and wildlife, drinking water for the communities in the watershed, and supports agriculture, timber, and recreational uses such as fishing. Many projects address habitat complexity, connectivity issues, fish barriers, water quality, riparian degradation, and erosion issues with the goal of enhancing fish habitat, wildlife resources, while improving working landscapes. The monitoring program includes basin assessments using stream and road surveys. Stream surveys determine habitat quality, and quantity mass loading of sediment into streams. Basin assessments produce projects that have the greatest impact on stream health for salmon habitat such as in-stream wood placement, riparian plantings, fish passage (culvert replacement), and sediment abatement through water bars and cross drains. The monitoring program also includes restoration effectiveness monitoring consisting of two main monitoring projects. The winter lake effectiveness monitoring is the largest tide gate replacement project along the Oregon coast, pairing agricultural production with improved coho salmon overwintering. The lower coquille tide gate and fish passage monitoring project relies on extensive fish trapping and collaboration with Oregon department of fish and wildlife (odfw) to install passive integrated transponder (pit) antennas at the tide gates of winter lake, seestrom, cochran, and coaledo project sites, gathering data, and then conducting in-depth statistical analysis of the results in monitoring report found on coqwa's website. The education and outreach program seeks to educate communities, and businesses including farms and ranches about the importance of improving and maintaining the coquille watershed environment and water quality.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 100% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94.7%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 95.9%; rating input score 96
- Fundraising efficiency: $992.58 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 13th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.3%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.36; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.69; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.1%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 21.9% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 19.2% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 26.8% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 94.7% of revenue deployed · 95.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $58K · 12 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $3M reported
- Consistency: 27 of 28 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.