Enercity Collaborative

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
882125364
IRS 990 coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Portland, OR, USA
Phone
9714147037
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Adult, Continuing Education

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,126,315
Expenses
$625,029
Assets
$680,962
Liabilities
$29,005

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DR DERRON COLES (BOARD PRESIDENT)
  • JAMES METOYER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • JAMES METOYER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $140,974 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

(see schedule o)enercity collaborative (ecc) is a nonprofit organization with a mission to ensure the financial, environmental, and health benefits of a clean energy economy are fully realized in bipoc, underserved, and frontline communities. Ecc provides education and job training opportunities for bipoc at the frontline of climate change, helping them identify, understand, and pursue their contribution to a clean energy future through: 1) workforce and contractor development training in the green sector; 2) public education initiatives to increase understanding of healthy homes and to create healthy communities and;3) policy advocacy training.

What it reported doing in 2025

Enercity collaborative strengthened its organizational infrastructure to support continued growth, operational excellence, and long-term sustainability. The organization advanced strategic planning efforts, enhanced governance practices, and improved internal systems for communications, reporting, program management, evaluation, and fundraising. Ecc also expanded relationships with funders, workforce stakeholders, and training partners while diversifying its funding strategy through foundation, public, and earned revenue opportunities. To ensure successful implementation of new initiatives, the organization developed grant implementation plans, consultant scopes of work, (continued on schedule o).and organizational processes that position ecc to effectively manage future growth.as part of its ongoing commitment to organizational excellence, ecc also completed the black united fund of Oregon's nonprofit leadership incubator. Through the program, the organization refined its three-year strategic plan and five-year financial projection, strengthened its fundraising strategy and organizational messaging, expanded its network of nonprofit peers and mentors, and built new relationships with prospective funding partners. These efforts complemented ecc's broader investments in organizational capacity and reinforced its ability to sustainably advance equitable workforce development across Oregon.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 66% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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 - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 47
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 84
  • Sustainability: 62
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 38.8%; rating input score 39
  • Program expense ratio: 70%; rating input score 70
  • Fundraising efficiency: $5.76 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 19; 19th 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: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • 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: 44.5%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.09; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 22.6%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 38.8% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 61.1% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 105.5% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 38.8% of revenue deployed · 70% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $438K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $141K · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 39/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 19/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.