Iaste Ltd

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
833148327
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2019, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Eugene, OR, USA
Phone
4075791853
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Professional Societies, Associations

Reported finances

Revenue
$73,344
Expenses
$67,514
Assets
$70,564
Liabilities
$1,925

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MARK GILLEM (PRESIDENT)
  • DR MONTIRA HORAYANGURA (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • MARK GILLEM (PRESIDENT)
  • DR MONTIRA HORAYANGURA (Vice President)
  • DR HESHAM ISSA (Secretary)

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

Established as an interdisciplinary forum where scholars can exchange ideas, discuess methods and approaches and share findings in developing an understanding of traditional dwellings and settlements as an expression of cultural coventions. In this capacity, iaste has three main venues to fulfill its mission. First, it publishes a semi-annual refereed journal, traditional dwellings and settlements review. It collaborates with a local university in diverse locations around the world to host a biennial international cross-disciplinary conference on selected themes. Third, iaste hosts a visiting scholar program that attracts academics from around the world working on themes of tradition and the build environment.

What it reported doing in 2025

Conducted five Advisory Council meetings, four Board of Directors meetings, and coordinated twelve IASTE 2025 planning meetings with the Local Conference Committee. Advanced the indexing process of Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review (TDSR) with Scopus, updated and curated association website content, and successfully published and distributed three issues of the journal. In addition, initiated and managed the solicitation of proposals for IASTE conferences scheduled for 20262028.

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

SUPPORTED - 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: 71
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 51
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 68.9%; rating input score 69
  • Program expense ratio: 74.8%; rating input score 75

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 7.9%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.05; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -7% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -12.1% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -10.8% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 68.9% of revenue deployed · 74.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $51K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • 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.

  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.