Environment Oregon Research & Policy Center
Legal name: Environment Oregon Research and Policy Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 208786532
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2020
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2017, Form 990-EZ 2020
- Location
- Portland, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5032311986
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $77,841
- Expenses
- $32,117
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Merriah Fairchild (President, Director)
People named in this filing
- Merriah Fairchild (President, Director)
- Bob Jenks (Secretary, Director)
- Dan Jacobson (Treasurer, 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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Clean water to drink and clean air to breathe; healthy lakes, rivers and forests; sources of energy that don’t pollute and never run out — all this should be the heritage we leave to future generations.
What it reported doing in 2020
Public education and outreach: recruiting volunteers, distributing educational literature, conducting surveys and discussing issues with the public reaching thousands of citizens each year on the following issues: 100% renewable energy strategies, wildlife over waste, and global warming solutions.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 40
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 26.2%; rating input score 26
- Program expense ratio: 63.2%; rating input score 63
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 58.7%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -7.3% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 24 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 26.2% of revenue deployed · 63.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $20K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 26 filed related-organization links
- 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: Mission deployment rate scored 26/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.