Pacific Northwest Association for College Physics
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 916069744
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Moscow, ID, USA
- Phone
- 2088856194
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,014
- Expenses
- $7,967
- Assets
- $32,335
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- James Butler (Executive Officer)
- Christine Berven (Treasurer)
- Katie Devine (Secretary)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
PNACP provides professional development for faculty who teach physics at universities, colleges, and high schools in AK, WA, OR, ID, and MT. Typically, this is done through the holding of an annual meeting at which attendees meet to discuss physics, physics education, and learn about new physics concepts to take back to their classrooms.
What it reported doing in 2025
For 2025-2026, PNACP held a meeting on April 17-18, 2026 at Pacific University in Forest Grove, OR. At this meeting the officers and board met. The general meeting had six invited talks and six contributed talks. About 30-35 people attended from higher educational institutions from around the pacific northwest.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 90% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 72% for direct work, and 28% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 78%; rating input score 78
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -98.5%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.06; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 29.8% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -6.1% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 78% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $6K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.