Underground Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 883553263
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- La Grande, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5419105928
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $28,352
- Expenses
- $30,004
- Assets
- $297,954
- Liabilities
- $30,521
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
People named in this filing
- Kirk Shea (Board Chair)
- Jack St Clair (Treasurer)
- Barb Beckner (Secretary)
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
Underground Oasis is committed to providing an oasis in the desert of addiction that is prevalent in our world and in our community. We offer an alternative to the majority of secular programs that claim their higher power is anything you desire except God. We believe that what you do does not determine who you are, but who you are determines what you do. We profess God as our higher power and believe that understanding who we are, children of God, gives us the hope and power to overcome any and all addictive habits and dependencies.
What it reported doing in 2025
Established a faith based 12-step program focusing on addiction and created an alternative to mostly secular AA and NA progrmas by focusing on God alone as our Higher Power.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 59.5%; rating input score 60
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5.8%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 9.93; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -24.2% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -60.5% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63% of revenue deployed · 59.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $18K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.