Grantmakers of Oregon and Sw Washington
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 911798108
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Portland, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5032266340
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Private Independent Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $137,780
- Expenses
- $278,698
- Assets
- $159,270
- Liabilities
- $10,279
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DASHIELL ELLIOTT (PRESIDENT/CEO)
People named in this filing
- DASHIELL ELLIOTT (PRESIDENT/CEO)
- JACKIE MURPHY (BOARD CHAIR)
- KATIE CARTER (VICE CHAIR)
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
Grantmaker's of Oregon and southwest Washington's mission is to promote effective philanthropy in Oregon and southwest Washington by providing our members with the services and support they need to succeed.
What it reported doing in 2024
In 2024, gosw focused on sustaining cross-sector partnerships, supporting funders through curated convenings, and transitioning key initiatives to aligned networks. Highlights included resource-sharing for donor stewardship, supporting regional philanthropic collaborations, and advancing knowledge transfer to strengthen future field leadership.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 93% 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 a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 16
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.8%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 39.4%; rating input score 39
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: -102.3%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.57; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 43.3%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -1.7% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -11.4% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 79.8% of revenue deployed · 39.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $110K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 39/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.