Our Children Oregon

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
931310666
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Portland, OR, USA
Phone
5032369754
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Public Foundations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$449,423
Expenses
$1,172,601
Assets
$5,775,550
Liabilities
$137,781

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

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JENIFER R WAGLEY (FORMER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • DANNY MANKIN (INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • LINDSEY KLOCK (INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • JENIFER R WAGLEY (FORMER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $77,846 total reported compensation
  • LINDSEY KLOCK (INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $60,200 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Our children Oregon's mission is to be a voice and force for the common good for all Oregon children, ensuring all children have the resources and opportunities they need to reach their full potential. We elevate data and the voices of communities to amplify the need and collaboratively develop policy and public investments to improve overall child and family well-being across the state. Our vision is that Oregon will lead the nation in providing a statewide community that nurtures and protects all children, ensuring that all "our children" belong and have equal value and opportunity.

What it reported doing in 2024

Policy & advocacy: in order to make Oregon a place where all children can thrive, we must ensure an even playing field for children to reach their full potential. To provide this foundation, children and their families must have access to the resources that they need to thrive. This access works like a power grid, but it is patchy and uneven in some areas. Policy changes and financial investments can help us repair and expand Oregon's resource grid so that every family and every child has the "energy" to achieve their full potential. Through the children's agenda, we provide state legislators and fellow advocates with a roadmap for this work by prioritizing policy solutions to address the most pressing problems and opportunities facing children and families. Our children Oregon brings together a community of advocates, coalitions, and partner organizations to champion state legislative policies and shared investments that benefit child well-being. Our 137 partner organizations come together prior to each legislative session to share their expertise in child and family issues. Their diversity of knowledge, perspectives, and priorities informs the policies we pursue and the strategies we employ. While not all organizations are actively pursuing each agenda item, we stand together to propose systemic solutions and investments that will allow us to provide a strong foundation for Oregon's children now and for generations to come.child abuse prevention: for more than three decades, our children Oregon (previously operating as the children's trust fund of Oregon) has focused on child abuse prevention and strengthening Oregon's families through strategic investments in local and evidence-based child abuse prevention programs, and we champion advocacy efforts to protect children. We seek to offer a comprehensive prevention organization that supports the health, safety, and well-being of all children in our state. Serving in the role of convener, educator, and supporter, affiliate organizations are engaged through oco's children's agenda coalition to advocate for policies and investments that will provide concrete support for the families they serve and catalyze upstream prevention investments. Our children Oregon also acts as a conduit for Oregon tax-checkoff dollars to reach child abuse prevention and family support organizations across the state, and acts as a distributor of Oregon's charitable fund drive (state agency workplace giving) funding to similarly associated state partner organizations.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 63% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 93% 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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 73
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 84
  • Sustainability: 31
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 49%; rating input score 49
  • Fundraising efficiency: $1.36 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • 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: -160.9%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.93; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 11.8%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 49% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $574K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $78K · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 49/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 7/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 27/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 39/100.