Friends of the Clearwater Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 820481875
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Moscow, ID, USA
- Phone
- 2088829755
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $155,887
- Expenses
- $134,379
- Assets
- $83,109
- Liabilities
- $218
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Chris Norden (Vice President)
- Lynne Nelson (President)
People named in this filing
- Nils Peterson (Board Member)
- Chris Norden (Vice President)
- Brett Haverstick (Board Member)
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
Public land conservation, education and participation.
What it reported doing in 2024
The Wild Clearwater program is a multifaceted and integrated conservation education and participation effort. Its two main parts are Outreach/Education and Forest Policy. FOC sponsored several different events and educational opportunities. These included volunteer field monitoring, presentations at universities and colleges, and our annual potluck. These events reached hundreds of people. The Wild Clearwater program also provides newsletters and information about current public land, water and wildlife issues in the Clearwater Basin to a list of about 900 in paper form and some 3000 in email form, and a few thousand followers on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. The Forest Policy component of the Wild Clearwater program of Friends of the Clearwater is heavily involved in the input processes on public lands. Friends of the Clearwater staff members and volunteers prepare and provide detailed and substantive input on issues that affect the national forests in the Clearwater Basin. In 2024 we commented on dozens of separate projects and prepared detailed reports on current issues. We are frequently asked to comment to the media on various topics affecting the Clearwater Basin.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.9%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 95%; rating input score 95
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: 13.8%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.62; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -17.2% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -8.1% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.3% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.9% of revenue deployed · 95% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $128K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.