Oregon Business Alliance for Climate

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
823412020
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2017–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Portland, OR, USA
Phone
5034903014
Rating
86
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Pollution Abatement and Control Services

Reported finances

Revenue
$33,504
Expenses
$51,848
Assets
$18,559
Liabilities
$2,264

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

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Kiernan Doherty (President)

People named in this filing

  • Maurice Rahming (Director)
  • Tom Kelley (Director)
  • Tom Koehler (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Part III-Organization's Primary Exempt Purpose-Our mission is to advance urgent, ambitious, equitable climate policies and programs designed to help spur innovation andeconomic opportunity while effectively and responsibly reducing emissions.

What it reported doing in 2025

Organized businesses to join in supporting passage of several critical bills, newprograms, and strong agency budgets to continue climate progress and to maximize Oregon's success with recent federal funding. Projects included: Business sign-on letters to legislators to support key policies. Hosting opportunities for business leaders to meet with key policy makers. Testified in committee meetings and met with legislators to bring the pro-climate business voice to support key policies. Supported Oregon's Climate Protection Plan in commission hearings and other venues. Partnered to deliver multiple cohorts of a program to help businesses address their own emissions-the Breaking Barriers Collaborative, in collaboration with other leading NW business, climate and justice groups. Kicked off our business preparation for the 2026 legislative session, providing a preview and legislator input covering the major climate policies expected in the session

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
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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 21
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -54.8%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.36; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -10.2% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -11.2% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $52K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2017 to 2025
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.