Portland Forest School of the Pacific Northwest
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 931941286
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Portland, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5032342412
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Elementary, Secondary Education, K - 12
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $542,184
- Expenses
- $663,870
- Assets
- $76,921
- Liabilities
- $101,868
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- AMANDA MAYTHER (BOARD PRESIDENT)
- NISHA SUPAHAN (BOARD VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- IAN ABRHAHAM (HEAD OF SCHOOL): $89,531 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Portland forest school combines outdoor education and robust academics to develop a connection to the land, accountability to the community, common sense, limitless enthusiasm, and instill a genuine curiosity for learning for students in the kindergarten through 8th grade.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 79% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 9
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 93%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -22.4%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.12; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.32; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.5%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 90.9% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 25.8% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -93.4% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 93% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $617K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $90K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 26/100.