Gorge Makerspace
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 863216832
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- White Salmon, WA, USA
- Phone
- 5098081781
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Vocational, Technical Schools
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $171,705
- Expenses
- $145,985
- Assets
- $158,475
- Liabilities
- $1,156
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- Amanda Lawrence (Chair, Board of Directors)
- Kirby Ederly (Director)
- William Ayer (Treasurer)
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
To provide instruction in career and technical education.
What it reported doing in 2024
Adult classes in woodworking, metal working, sewing, textiles, digital fabrication and related manual arts. Each week we offer between one and four classes lasting 2 to 3 hours in the aforementioned subjects. These classes are available at a low cost and we offerscholarships to those in need. In addition we provide open shop space to work on individual projects.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 47
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 44.2%; rating input score 44
- Program expense ratio: 52%; rating input score 52
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: 15%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.09; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 66.2% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 29.8% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 41.7% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 44.2% of revenue deployed · 52% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $76K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 44/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 52/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 44/100.