Northwest Scientific Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 916033397
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2012
- Location
- Corvallis, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5038804463
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $99,677
- Expenses
- $58,788
- Assets
- $477,900
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Dan Gavin (Past President)
- David Shaw (President)
People named in this filing
- Dan Gavin (Past President)
- David Shaw (President)
- Robin Lesher (Treasurer, Managing Editor "Northwest Science")
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Scientific
What it reported doing in 2024
Annual Scientific Meeting: provides opportunity for membership and regional scientific community to meet and participate in exchange of scientific information; 94th Annual Meeting hosted by Gonzaga University (Spokane, WA), 4-day meeting with 77 attendees, 40 oral and 19 poster presentations, and 4 field trips.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 85% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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 a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 76
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 51.9%; rating input score 52
- Program expense ratio: 87.4%; rating input score 87
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 41%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 8.13; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 20.8%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 22.2% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 27.3% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.6% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 51.9% of revenue deployed · 87.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $51K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 17 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 52/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.