Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 930715778
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Eugene, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5413445044
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $521,755
- Expenses
- $486,853
- Assets
- $917,888
- Liabilities
- $74,940
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ashley Chesser (President)
- Chloe Fender (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Ashley Chesser (President)
- Chloe Fender (Vice President)
- Megan Dunn (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides (NCAP) works to protect community and environmental health and inspire the use of ecologically sound solutions to reduce the use of pesticides.
What it reported doing in 2024
Healthy Wildlife and Water: We advanced pesticide pollution prevention across Washington's Columbia River Basis through the Clean, Drain, Dry (CDD) campaign, an effort aimed at stopping the spread of aquatic invasive species and reducing reliance on toxic treatments like copper-based pesticides. Outreach strengthened awareness of aquatic invasive species prevention and non-toxic stewardship practices. We also opposed SB 5915 this year, a bill that would have extended a hazardous chemical tax exemption, as well as successfully advocating for the passage of SB 5972, which bans the use of residential neonicotinoids, essential for reducing pesticide drift and runoff and protecting freshwater ecosystems. Additionally, we made significant progress promoting farm worker health across Central Washington. Through health fairs and active partnerships with regional clinics, we directly engaged over 220 community members and distributed materials focused on recognizing and preventing pesticide exposure. 350 people received Spanish/English well water safety resources. There were 204,000 visitors to our website to receive resources.
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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.8%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 76.7%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.35 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 12th 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: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.7%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.89; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.3% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.6% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.4% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.8% of revenue deployed · 76.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $373K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 41 of 42 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 28/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.