North American Raspberry & Blackberry Association Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
201849744
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2013–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2008
Location
Portland, OR, USA
Phone
5032085589
Rating confidence
Limited

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$146,087
Expenses
$210,061
Assets
$157,598
Liabilities
$733

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

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Amanda McWhirt (President)
  • Whitney Phillips Howell (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Amanda McWhirt (President)
  • Ken Hopps (Director)
  • David Klyn-Hesselink (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

Support raspberry/blackberry industry with education and research.

What it reported doing in 2025

Education of over 250 members and others through quarterly newsletter, website, electronic forum, and distribution of publications and conference proceedings. Education of the general public about the raspberry/blackberry industry, using these berries, and their health benefits.

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
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 23
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -43.8%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.75; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 13.1%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 12.8% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.