Friends Bulletin Corporation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 931156843
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Portland, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5034872945
- Rating
- 95
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Printing, Publishing
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $152,094
- Expenses
- $149,316
- Assets
- $292,185
- Liabilities
- $22,887
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Larry Newton (President)
- Caitlin Churchill (Editor / Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Larry Newton (President)
- Marge Gianelli (Treasurer)
- Jay Thatcher (Secretary)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Communication services for Quakers in the West.
What it reported doing in 2024
Outreach -- Produced a weekly email newsletter, monthly podcasts, and other online events to draw the attention of Friends in the West and to serve their communications needs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 68% 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 reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.8%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 95.5%; rating input score 96
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.8%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.96; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 50.9%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.8% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 93.8% of revenue deployed · 95.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $143K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.