Ten Rivers Food Web
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 204923629
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Corvallis, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5412243296
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Agricultural Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $291,098
- Expenses
- $210,866
- Assets
- $101,869
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KIRSTEN MILLER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- KAT WALTER (President)
- GABRIELLE ROESCH-MCNALLY (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- KIRSTEN MILLER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $19,568 total reported compensation
- MARKAEL LUTERRA (CODIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS): $14,325 total reported compensation
- ALIZA SIMMONS (Secretary): $3,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Support and development of locally based community food systems.
What it reported doing in 2025
Organization vision: We envision a vibrant regional food web where reciprocal relationships sustain a thriving food economy, steward land and water, and produce delicious food to nourish our whole community.Mission: Our mission is to steward the growth of a resilient local food web in Benton, Lincoln, and Linn counties by sourcing local food directly from producers and selling to institutions and businesses.Program accomplishments: Fill Your PantryThousands of pounds of local food distributed to community members through a preorder sale and pop-up market event, with a focus on bulk purchases of storage crops ahead of the winter season. "Fill Your Neighbor's Pantry" donations collected with preorders are used to subsidize local food purchases by low-income people.Soil Amendment SaleSixty tons of organic soil amendments and growing supplies distributed to 250 local farmers and gardeners at prices normally only available to large-scale growers. Community and OSU student volunteers load vehicles in this longstanding preorder sale event, now in its 40th year.Community SurveysSurveys conducted to gauge changes in local food consumption habits in response to the pandemic, and to assess needs among local food producers that TRFW could help to address.Mid-Valley Food HubSourcing local food for institutions from multiple farms with one order, one invoice, one delivery.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.8%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 88.1%; rating input score 88
- 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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 27.6%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.48; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 17.5%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 34.6% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 43.9% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63.8% of revenue deployed · 88.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $186K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $20K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.