The Motherline
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 333521430
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Cave Junction, OR, USA
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $17,961
- Expenses
- $9,408
- Assets
- $8,553
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Cindy Palacios (Board President and Co-Director)
People named in this filing
- Cindy Palacios (Board President and Co-Director)
- Alisa Ocean (Board Secretary and Co-Director)
- Dannon Guinther (Board 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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Motherline engenders a culture of repair and restoration by empowering women to cultivate a place based planet protective economy through arts agriculture youth education and inter-generational connection. Our youth programs RiverStars and Cultivate Kids teach rural youth of all ages skills in dance theater movement and agriculture. We hold community events such as our Clean Sweep trash clean up on public lands and educate around positive land stewardship. We are a newly formed non profit but our youth programs RiverStars and Cultivate Kids have been fiscally sponsored by other organizations in past years providing free beneficial and educational activities to rural youth and their families in under resourced Josephine County.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Clean Sweep is a program to clean up trash in local public lands and teach intergenerational skills for caretaking and land stewardship to our community. We host a monthly clean up day and invite volunteers to hike in beautiful places while we clean up trash that has been dumped illegally and return our public lands to useful spaces for our local population and tourists to enjoy. We also work on educational information and campaigns to help prevent future dumping and encourage a culture of care in the Illinois Valley of Josephine County. 50 plus local volunteers join in each clean ups and we feed them lunch. We provide free trash vouchers to the local family coalition to encourage people to dump their trash in appropriate designated facilities. Note: This program along with our youth programs was fiscally sponsored by a different organization for part of 2025 and the revenue and expenses that all of our programs operate on will be higher in 2026 as many expenses that we will pay in 2026 were paid by another organization in 2025 while we went through the process of applying for 501c3 status and setting up our non profit.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 81% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 43
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 32.4%; rating input score 32
- Program expense ratio: 61.9%; rating input score 62
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 47.6%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.91; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 32.4% of revenue deployed · 61.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $6K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 32/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.