Home Orchard Education Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 853667449
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Oregon City, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5032985410
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Botanical Gardens, Arboreta and Botanical Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $85,352
- Expenses
- $91,328
- Assets
- $29,292
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Elizabeth Gandara (President)
- Tonia Lordy (Executive Director)
- Jason Schmidt (Vice-President)
People named in this filing
- Jean Jones (Co-Secretary)
- Elizabeth Gandara (President)
- Tonia Lordy (Executive 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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide horticultural education, equitable access to healthy foods, and to support systems that facilitate intergenerational community connections.
What it reported doing in 2025
Educational Workshops - A wide range of educational workshops teaching specific and general techniques to maintain a small or home-based orchard, and shrub-based fruit and berry production. Topics include winter care and pruning, spring care, summer care and pruning, tool care, harvesting and others aimed at successful home-production of fruit and berries. Workshops are offered on a class fee basis to the general public. 35 workshops were presented with a total of 802 students attending. 24 participants were granted workshop fee waivers.
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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 66.9%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 62.5%; rating input score 63
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -7%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.32; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 57.5%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 64.9% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.6% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 66.9% of revenue deployed · 62.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $57K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- 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 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.