Southern Oregon Visitors Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 930867777
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Talent, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5417081994
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,038,620
- Expenses
- $1,022,031
- Assets
- $395,402
- Liabilities
- $122,660
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
21 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Allen Pike (Past-President)
- TJ Holmes (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Bob Hackett (Executive Dir-non voting): $138,014 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To increase and lengthen visitor stays by marketing the region as a destination and by encouraging cooperative efforts in the areas of outreach marketing, visitor research, education, and public relations.
What it reported doing in 2024
Encouraged potential visitors to visit the area. Also encourage visitors to increase and lengthen their stay in the region by highlighting the many things Southern Oregon has to offer.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 80% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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: 80
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- 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: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.6%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.39; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.31; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.5%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.2% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $138K · 21 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 10 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 26/100.