Neighbors for Clean Air
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 272837197
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2017, Form 990-N 2012
- Location
- Portland, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5037050481
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Pollution Abatement and Control Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $372,899
- Expenses
- $361,003
- Assets
- $590,034
- Liabilities
- $247,073
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Mary Peveto (Co-Executive Director)
- Nakisha Nathan (Co-Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Mary Peveto (Co-Executive Director): $67,059 total reported compensation
- Nakisha Nathan (Co-Executive Director): $67,059 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Create a healthier Oregon through the reduction of air pollution.
What it reported doing in 2024
Advocacy and Movement Building focused on Youth Advocacy These projects were designed to empower and inspire youth through the development of a highschool air quality curriculum and the introduction of 90 students to local and state air quality issues and potential policy solutions where youth were encouraged to reflect and share their experiences and concerns. NCA held its third Camp AQ, a four-day summer camp focused on connecting youth to non-profit partners advocating for environmental justice and scientists providing STEM-based experiential opportunities to understand air quality monitoring. NCA also invested significant energy into its partnership with the Blueprint Foundation, supporting the Foundations Change is in the Air Program, a clean energy career development and community-based science program that supports a youth-led initiative to monitor air quality and address the health impacts of climate-related air pollution emissions in the Portland Metropolitan area.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 72% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 85
- Accountability: 63
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 76.8%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.11 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.2%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.63; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.42; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 37.2%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.1% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 75% of revenue deployed · 76.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $277K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $67K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 26 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 7 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 18/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.