Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 621812870
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Oak Ridge, TN, USA
- Phone
- 8657765050
- Rating
- 52
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Pollution Abatement and Control Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $98,006
- Expenses
- $157,933
- Assets
- $104,185
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ann Myers (President)
- Laurel Goodrich (Vice-President)
People named in this filing
- Ann Myers (President)
- Jay McMahan (Secretary/Treasurer)
- Laurel Goodrich (Vice-President)
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
The primary purpose of the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance is public education and advocacy. OREPA conducts meetings, workshops, and seminars concering the Department of Energy's activities on the Oak Ridge Nuclear Reservation in Oak Ridge, TN. OREPA publishes newsletters quarterly and electronic communications informing the public of DOE activities and encourages public involvement in meetings and public hearings. OREPA also works in the broader community to promote nonviolent community. OREPA maintains a web site, a Facebook page, and a listserv reaching more than 250 people.
What it reported doing in 2024
OREPA made more than a dozen presentations about the Dept of Energy's activities on the Oak Ridge Nuclear Reservation to audiences rannging from 250 to 500 as well as numerous media interviews. OREPA also disseminated information through its quarterly newsletter (circulation 1,100), Facebook page, web site (www.orepa.org), and an email list (250 people).
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 17
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 19.7%; rating input score 20
- Program expense ratio: 12.2%; rating input score 12
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -61.1%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.66; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 79.3%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 128% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -8.6% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -29.9% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 19.7% of revenue deployed · 12.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $19K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 20/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.