Oregon for Climate Action
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 834520266
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Portland, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5034903014
- Rating
- 93
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $104,866
- Expenses
- $122,555
- Assets
- $41,600
- Liabilities
- $8,647
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Carter MacNichol (President)
People named in this filing
- Tim Miller (Executive Dir.)
- Carter MacNichol (President)
- David Vernier (Director)
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
Primary Exempt Purpose-Oregon for Climate Action (OCA) was established to provide needed thought leadership, outreach and education around climate risks, as well as impacts and opportunities for Oregon's economy.The organization continued a "state-to-federal climate initiative" to educate Oregon businesses on federal policy directions at the state level, and the benefits in Oregon of climate-related investments already decided upon at the federal level. OCA, in partnership with other NW non-profit organizations, continued the Breaking Barriers Collaborative and delivered Accelerator programs to help NW businesses address their own climate emissions-including outreach and education, tools, 1-on-1 consulting and other resources. The Accelerator Program covers fleet decarbonization, including how to access federal, state, and utility resources. The organization supported Oregon's Climate Protection Plan in various non-legislative forums including Department of Environmental Quality session
What it reported doing in 2024
Primary Exempt Purpose-Oregon for Climate Action (OCA) was established to provide needed thought leadership, outreach and education around climate risks, as well as impacts and opportunities for Oregon's economy.Since its inauguration, Oregon for Climate Action (OCA) has developed information and offered forums covering the impacts of climate change on Oregon's economy, potential policy directions and opportunities for innovation and technology inthe area of climate change. In 2024, the organization continued many of these activities, and launched some new pathways for impact within our mission. In particular: The organization continued a "state-to-federal climate initiative" to educate Oregon businesses on federal policy directions at the state level, and the benefits in Oregon of climate-related investments already decided upon at the federal level. OCA, in partnership with other NW non-profit organizations, continued the Breaking Barriers Collaborative and delivered Accelerator programs to help NW businesses address their own climate emissions-including outreach and education, tools, 1-on-1 consulting and other resources. The Accelerator Program covered fleet decarbonization, including how to access federal, state, and utility resources. The organization supported Oregon's Climate Protection Program in various non-legislative forums including Department of Environmental Quality sessions. Theorganization also co-hosted multiple educational forums for businesses on the likely policy directions in the coming year.
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: 100
- Sustainability: 22
- 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; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -16.9%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.34; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 21.5% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -11.2% per year; rating input score 0; 10th 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 · $123K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.