Sisters Cold Weather Shelter
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 320635347
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Sisters, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5415882332
- Rating
- 58
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Temporary Housing
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $401,891
- Expenses
- $194,646
- Assets
- $254,077
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Luis Blanchard (President)
- Frank Shirley (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Luis Blanchard (President)
- Frank Shirley (Vice President)
- Tyler Davis (Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
SCWS' mission is to unite the Sisters area community in a shared commitment to supporting our most vulnerable neighbors. We strive to ensure that every individual has access to life's essentials - from food and shelter to vital resources and compassionate care. By fostering a culture of empathy and collaboration, we empower community members to contribute their time, skills, and hearts to build a stronger, more connected community where no one is left behind. We provide 1) emergency sheltering and supplies to the vulnerable 2) outreach with meals, showers, laundry, and fuel 3) operate a food bank for community members in need.
What it reported doing in 2025
Grants and direct assistance provided in to individuals for transportation, housing, and relocation.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 73% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 46
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 30
- Sustainability: 74
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 37.3%; rating input score 37
- Program expense ratio: 77%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: Limited
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 51.6%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.31; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 65.3% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 53% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 37.3% of revenue deployed · 77% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $150K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 37/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.