Milwaukie Parks Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 814047728
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Milwaukie, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5037541655
- Rating
- 60
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $25,679
- Expenses
- $5,807
- Assets
- $99,961
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
People named in this filing
- Alejandra Pena (Treasurer)
- Lisa Batey (Secretary)
- Lisa Gunion-Rinker (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Milwaukie Parks Foundation (MPF) is a 501(c)3 dedicated to connecting Milwaukie residents to parks and green spaces through education, outreach, and fundraising.
What it reported doing in 2025
Placemaking Grant Application & Insurance for park tree lighting community gathering space during community events for a three-year period benefiting regional area. Anticipating benefits to ~36000 people over the three-year period.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 74% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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: 22
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 80
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 14.9%; rating input score 15
- Program expense ratio: 34.6%; rating input score 35
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 77.4%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 17.21; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 14.9% of revenue deployed · 34.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 15/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 35/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.