Oregonians for Food and Shelter
Legal name: Oregonians for Food and Shelter Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 930775640
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Salem, OR, USA
- Phone
- 503-370-8092
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $690,676
- Expenses
- $569,958
- Assets
- $811,354
- Liabilities
- $5,887
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
47 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARY K MURRAY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- MARY K MURRAY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $175,083 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Through a coalition, advocate and educate for the responsible use of pesticides, fertilizer, and biotechnology. OFS Stewardship and Service Activities OFS is actively engaged in a wide variety of service and stewardship activities, from service on advisory bodies and formal Councils to direct engagement and education activities with community members. The overarching goal of much of our stewardship work is to support the safe and effective use of pesticides, fertilizers, and biotechnology to ensure a safe, high quality, and dependable supply of food and fiber. Our primary stewardship work is focused through our 501c(3), Cultivate Northwest. Through this foundation, we pursue projects that directly engage producers and other applicators, providing outreach and education directly informed by the pressin.
What it reported doing in 2024
Legislative advocacy and informational newsletters sent to members and interested parties within the industry.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 91% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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: 64
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.5%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.42; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 30.7%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.8% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 44 of 44 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $175K · 47 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 12 of 13 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.