Oregon Institute for Creative Research
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 474837503
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Clarkesville, GA, USA
- Phone
- 5032360345
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $99,405
- Expenses
- $70,233
- Assets
- $26,989
- Liabilities
- $10,866
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANNE-MARIE OLIVER (CO-PRESIDENT)
- BARRY SANDERS (CO-PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ANNE-MARIE OLIVER (CO-PRESIDENT)
- BARRY SANDERS (CO-PRESIDENT)
- CRISTAL OTERO (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Oregon institute for creative research: e4 is a nonprofit corporation whose primary purpose is to operate a higher learning and research institution that advances work at the intersection of ethics, sthetics, ecology, and education, given the fact that the challenges of the 21st century are so great that no single domain in and of itself is capable of adequately addressing them. Towards this end, oicr fosters thinkers and makers devoted to addressing social, psychological, and ecological problems in new and innovative ways-scholars, theorists, researchers, journalists, documentarians, social-justice advocates, artists, writers, and poets. The institute provides opportunities for research, education, conferences, roundtables, colloquia, artist residencies, public outreach, and special projects.
What it reported doing in 2024
The major service provided by oicr is teaching. Here is a representative seminar: in the critical theory seminar, students analyze notions of critique in the work and life of major thinkers, paying particular attention to their understanding of theory and practice, thought and action, form and feeling, medium and message, matter and memory, time and experience, intelligence and the senses, aesthetics and representation in relation to technological procedures, sociological categorization, political phenomena, and the capture and creation of lived realities. We begin by expanding the meaning of contemporaneity and go on to examine how meaning, individual and collective, is made or, conversely, unmade under various conditions. We are interested particularly in generating new modes of critique and judgment that will allow us to evaluate any number of contemporary phenomena, including the notion of judgment itself, the subject to which arendt devoted the last years of her life and about which she was writing and thinking shortly before her death. Students can expect to read agamben, arendt, bachelard, baudrillard, benjamin, bergson, flusser, foucault, levinas, mcluhan, merleau-ponty, rancire, and simmel.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.3%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 95.3%; rating input score 95
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: 29.3%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.38; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.4; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 63%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 67.3% of revenue deployed · 95.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $67K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.