Oregon Realtors

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
930495706
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Salem, OR, USA
Phone
8002529115
Rating confidence
Limited

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$5,226,885
Expenses
$3,635,037
Assets
$15,912,852
Liabilities
$2,653,187

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

138 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • FORDHAM ASHLEIGH (PRESIDENT)
  • LANDELS BRENT (PRESIDENT-ELECT)
  • BERGEN GRACE (IMMEDIATE PAST-PRESIDENT)
  • BARKER RODNEY A (DISTRICT VICE-PRESIDENT 1)
  • KESSINGER MICHAEL (DISTRICT VICE-PRESIDENT 2)
  • CHURCH KAREN (DISTRICT VICE-PRESIDENT 3)

Highest reported compensation

  • PAKULA JENNY (CEO): $364,803 total reported compensation
  • ROGERS JEREMY (GENERAL COUNSEL/DIR OF GOVT AFFAIRS): $211,270 total reported compensation
  • THOMPSON DAVID (COO): $182,314 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Enhance the member's freedom and ability to conduct their individual real estate related business ethically and competently and to promote and preserve private property rights. The association is the realtors real estate business advocate, a force for education, and a legislative advocate for free enterprise and private property rights in Oregon. The association's core purpose is to advance the ability of Oregon realtors to practice the real estate profession in an ethical, profitable and successful manner.

What it reported doing in 2024

Professional education courses: or strives to be the market leader in Oregon real estate education by providing the highest value business, legal, and legislative information for continuing education and professional development of our members. We offer many professional development courses that include leadership courses, tech seminars, motivational speakers and designations. We also offer continuing education throughout the year in various locations across the state. Board services and association publications: the work of theassociation is overseen by a 15 member executive commitiee, headed by the president of the association, and by a 100+ member board of directors, representative of 24 local associations and boards from across the state. Or is funded by annual membership dues, special events, and sponsorships. Real estate professionals throughout Oregon look to or as a leading provider of high-quality real estate business services including educational seminars, risk management services, political and legislative advocacy, and professional standards training and enforcement.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 87% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 86
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 71
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Pass
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 30.5%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.38; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.17; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 20.9%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 135 of 135 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $365K · 138 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $254K reported
  • Consistency: 13 of 13 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 4 filed related-organization links
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.