Oregon Stem

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
853661381
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2020
Location
Portland, OR, USA
Phone
5033092752
Rating
73
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Educational Services and Schools - Other

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$390,620
Expenses
$301,034
Assets
$364,439
Liabilities
$1,679

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

18 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • KYLE RITCHEY-NOLL (BOARD PRESIDENT)
  • MELISSA DUBOIS LEWIS (BOARD VICE PRESIDENT)
  • DEBRA MUMM-HILL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (THRU DEC. 2025))
  • STEPHANIE SALOMONE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (BEG. FEB. 2026))

Highest reported compensation

  • DEBRA MUMM-HILL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (THRU DEC. 2025)): $109,171 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Oregon stem promotes equitable access to ste/a/m opportunities across Oregon.

What it reported doing in 2025

Awareness campaign: amplifying opportunities for k-12 students and educators by promoting stem learning experiences, leveraging data to inform decision-making, and expanding statewide outreach efforts through the stem hub network.system alignment: uniting industry, education, and policy leaders to ensure stem learning is responsive to evolving workforce demands and regional economic growth. Continued on schedule o. This includes participation in the semiconductor talent consortium and the technology industry consortium; in-person visits to all 13 regional stem hubs to meet hub leadership, staff, and critical partners; consultation on the new stem investment council and Oregon department of education 2026-2032 stem education plan; and participation in several statewide industry events.grants to stem hubs: through statewide strategic leadership, we work with the Oregon stem hubs to ensure equitable prosperity by connecting education to career through accessible steam learning experiences. In particular, in spring and early summer 2026, in collaboration with the portland metro stem partnership, Oregon stem planned a 5-day teacher externship program in the semiconductor sector which was implemented in late july 2026 (in the new fiscal year). This work involved a grant to pmsp and seeking industry and portland community college partners, also creating systems alignment.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 69% for direct work, and 31% for grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 62
  • Transparency & Controls: 88
  • Accountability: 79
  • Sustainability: 54
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 55.6%; rating input score 56
  • Program expense ratio: 72.2%; rating input score 72
  • Fundraising efficiency: $32.82 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 95.8%; rating input score 96; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 22.9%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.21; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 36.3%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -4% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 55.6% of revenue deployed · 72.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $217K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $109K · 18 people listed
  • Consistency: 25 of 26 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 56/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 44/100.