Tatoosh School Dba Inside Passage Field Studies
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 453662011
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2011
- Location
- Portland, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5033472599
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cultural, Ethnic Awareness
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $11,252
- Expenses
- $23,532
- Assets
- $87,116
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PETER CHAILLE (PRESIDENT/CO-DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- PETER CHAILLE (PRESIDENT/CO-DIRECTOR)
- ERIN STEINKRUGER (SECRETARY/CO-DIRECTOR)
- CAROLINE ROONEY (MEMBER)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To administer and implement field based education programs and cultivate first hand knowledge of landscape and community frameworks in southeast Alaska.
What it reported doing in 2024
Tatoosh school (dba inside passage field studies (ipfs)), is a 501(c)3 nonprofit university-level field school founded in 2011 whose mission is to foster first-hand learning about the ecology and environmental policy of southern southeast Alaska. Ipfs has a formal training and research program focused on aquatic and forest habitats and a rigorous academic curriculum that prepares students for careers in natural resource conservation and management. The ipfs base camp provides a logistical hub for students, primary investigators and their teams to engage in timely and robust research in biology, ecology, rural development, and public lands policy. The organization supports interdisciplinary education and research projects, with an interest in producing sound science that serves decision-makers at local, regional and international levels. Ipfs has worked with a diverse group of partners (nonprofit, government, and private businesses) to identify areas of interest and need and to direct data collection efforts to answer targeted research questions. Qualified undergraduate and graduate students seeking to gain valuable field research skills through hands-on training by expert faculty are engaged through coursework and directed research and these exciting projects provide students the opportunity to apply their understandings of southeast's dynamic terrestrial, riparian, and nearshore marine ecosystems whilecontributing to a valuable body of scientific data. As part of core curriculum, students and faculty benefit from guest lecturers who donate many hours of their time to co-produce community-based teaching and research.in 2024 ipfs continued to contribute to ongoing research programs and partnerships.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 78.2%; rating input score 78
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -109.1%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.7; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -7.2% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -10.5% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.2% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 78.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $18K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 7/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.