North-Northeast Business Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 930843715
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2018, Form 990-N 2010
- Location
- Portland, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5038415032
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $316,761
- Expenses
- $309,775
- Assets
- $119,703
- Liabilities
- $273,136
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- John Washington (President Exec Director)
- Bryson Davis (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- John Washington (President Exec Director): $64,656 total reported compensation
- Fawn Aberson (Employee): $52,676 total reported compensation
- Alexander Gebreab (Board Member): $42,600 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The North-Northeast Business Association is a non-profit that helps to promote and sustain the economic and business development of inner urban N/NE Portland. We are a voice, advocate, facilitator and catalyst for businesses and residents.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our program aimed to increase access, capacity, and representation in media production for Black and other BIPOC communities in Portland through culturally responsive, community-centered storytelling. We used technologyincluding digital editing tools, high-quality production equipment, and a mobile media studioto support: Hands-on media training for at least 30 Black/BIPOC participants, focused on digital storytelling, film production, and civic engagement; production and airing of 100 short films that elevate community voices and highlight social, economic, and health equity issues affecting our neighborhoods; broadcast of monthly 30-minute community film segments on Open Signal, showcasing participant work and amplifying underrepresented narratives; digital and mobile outreach tools that expand access to training and storytelling opportunities beyond a single locationespecially for those historically excluded from media production spaces. Ultimately, we sparked empowerment and opportunity by turning community members into storytellers, creators, and change agentswith the technology and training to match. With original films created by our internal team and interns, we advanced our goals of building media skills and centering Black voices.
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 - 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: 49
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 57
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 49%; rating input score 49
- Program expense ratio: 50.1%; rating input score 50
- Fundraising efficiency: $12.84 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 26th 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: 50%; rating input score 50; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.2%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.39; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 2.28; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 51.6%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.7% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.9% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.1% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 49% of revenue deployed · 50.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 6 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $155K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $65K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 30 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 49/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 50/100.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 44/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.