Oregon Empowers Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 845162784
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Wilsonville, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5035859988
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Utilities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $111,127
- Expenses
- $162,351
- Assets
- $18,662
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOE VAN METER (President)
- RON HOLMES (Vice President)
- FRED FLIPPENCE (PAST PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JOE VAN METER (President)
- RON HOLMES (Vice President)
- SHIRLEY CAIRNS (Secretary/TREAS)
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
Financial and technical assistance to the poor, distressed and underpriveleged persons living in developing countries who do not currently have access to basic electric utility service.
What it reported doing in 2025
During 2025, volunteers from electric cooperatives across Oregon traveled to Aldea Coco, Guatemala, a remote village of about 30 homes, a church and a school. The project requires running approximately 3.7 miles of primary wire, 1,000 feet of secondary wire, 35 to 40 primary poles and 10 secondary poles across difficult terrain.
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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 12
- Growth: NotEnoughData
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; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -46.1%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.11; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $162K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 19 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.