Oregon Society of American Foresters
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237065108
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Dayton, OR, USA
- Phone
- 9712410268
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $75,425
- Expenses
- $64,886
- Assets
- $177,383
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
37 people listed
People named in this filing
- Stephen L Cafferata (Director)
- Mark Vomocil (Secretary)
- Peter Matzka (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
The Oregon Society of American Foresters has 708members in twelve professional chapters and three student chapters throughout Oregon. The Oregon Society of American Foresters is the largest state affiliate of the National Society of American Foresters. The mission of the Oregon Society of American Foresters is to advance the science, education, technology, and practice of forestry to enhance the competency of its members to establish professional excellence and to use the knowledge, skills, and conservation ethic of the profession to ensure the continued health and use of forest eco-systems and the present and future availability of forest resources to benefit society.
What it reported doing in 2024
The Oregon Society of American Foresters provides valuable professional, scientific, and technical forestry information to members and interested parties through an annual meeting and various conferences, workshops, and field tours. The Oregon SAF sponsors outreach programs for students. The fifteen chapters hold numerous meetings on technical subjects, forest policy, and developing trends in forestry. Its newsletter, The Western Forester, is distributed four times a year to all OSAF members throughout Oregon as well as to SAF members in Washington and Alaska. In 2022, Zoom technical meetings were held, and field trips were conducted in person. The 2022 Oregon SAF Annual Meeting had the theme: Seeing our Forest Beyond the Trees. It was a well attended virtual meeting with 2 in person field trips. The meeting was organized and sponsored by the OSAF Executive Committee. An electronic nesletter, Wooden Tales, keeps Oregon SAF members current with state-wide issues. OSAF competed a project funded by the SAF Foresters' Fund. The project consisted of placing custom-designed signs on fire protection, Firewise homes, and fire prevention at the base of historic fire watchtower at the Hoskin's Demonstration Forest near Portland, OR
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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86%; rating input score 86
- 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: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.73; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -18% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -12.7% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.1% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $65K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 37 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.