Gowrs Limited Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 992198361
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Eugene, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5307461992
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Wildlife Preservation, Protection
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,010,345
- Expenses
- $921,079
- Assets
- $642,669
- Liabilities
- $39,118
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
People named in this filing
- Jenny Schlieps (Chair)
- Mike Ziccardi (Treasurer)
- Valeria Ruoppolo (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The funds will be used to further proactive and collaborative efforts on behalf of all key stakeholders to prevent the oiling of wild animals wherever possible through effective wildlife planning; and to meet the needs of oil impacted animals when accidents do occur, through a faster, more efficient and unified response effort.
What it reported doing in 2025
Organization is a social welfare organization whose goal is the prevention of the oiling of wild animals. Programs include: the development of training modules to standardize qualifications among all Assessment Team candidates for deployment in the event of an oil spill; Preparing and running exercises and drills for Assessment Team candidates to provide more experience of responding to an oiled wildlife incident; Developing documentation and identifying and sourcing equipment for Assessment Teams to use in the field, if they are deployed; and the developing communications to promote the work that we do, such as developing a website. Grant of $7,500 paid as sponsorship for Effects of Oil on Wildlife conference to Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 100% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 72
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.4%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 99.1%; rating input score 99
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 8.8%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.7; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5.2% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -38.3% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.2% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 90.4% of revenue deployed · 99.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $913K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes foreign activity and grants
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 41/100.