Urban Nature Partners Pdx
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 824080391
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Portland, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5412817162
- Rating
- 41
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $131,013
- Expenses
- $153,661
- Assets
- $41,761
- Liabilities
- $8,172
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kristin Bowling (Executive Director)
- Cameron Luck (President)
People named in this filing
- Kristin Bowling (Executive Director)
- Oscar Caceres Jimenez (Assistant Director)
- Cameron Luck (President)
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
Urban Nature Partners PDX empowers youth from historically marginalized Portland populations by building connections to nature and community through long-term mentoring relationships.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, we served 15 enrolled youth ages 9-17, with 78% of the families we serve identifying as BIPOC and half as immigrants. In addition to youth participating in weekly or bi-weekly outdoor outings with their mentors, we provided 13 large group outdoor outing opportunities, 4 of which included mentor pairs from other Portland-based mentoring organizations, and most of which included family members of enrolled youth. Our small teen groups selected 8 additional group outings for themselves with trusted partners. We continued to send interested youth to day and overnight outdoor summer camps with partner organizations, at zero cost to their families. We continued our leadership role with long-time partners of a collaborative of staff working with youth outdoors in Portland, representing over two dozen area agencies and nonprofits. With our programming ending on December 31st, we held a Reunion Picnic in August where youth, families, mentors, and staff from almost 12 years of service gathered to celebrate our time together. Most existing mentor pairs decided to transfer to other mentoring programs, or to continue to see each other as family friends. We additionally passed on all of our partner contacts, program resources, and remaining outdoor gear to other mentoring organizations and outdoor service providers in the area, so the cumulative benefits of our program model can continue for other youth outside of our program.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 9
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 13
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 9.5%; rating input score 9
- Program expense ratio: 8%; rating input score 8
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -17.3%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.27; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.2; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 61.2%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5.5% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 9.5% of revenue deployed · 8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $12K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 9/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.