Walking Tall Southern Oregon
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 471195813
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2020
- Location
- Central Point, OR, United States
- Phone
- 541-664-6000
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $432,896
- Expenses
- $341,257
- Assets
- $629,836
- Liabilities
- $42,645
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- TOM G SMURZYNSKI (DIRECTOR/PRES): $48,000 total reported compensation
- JUDY A SMURZYNSKI (Treasurer): $26,400 total reported compensation
- F DOUGLAS MARTYR (Director/Sect): $14,400 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Walking Tall provides compassionate life coaching to young men in grades 7–12 by establishing permanent connections with Christian faith-based mentorship, and by building personal respect, integrity and character through job-readiness skills. WT will train up and employ young men who have shown skills in being coachable, attentive to detail, practicing safety guidelines, and demonstrating respect for their workplace. WT will hire these young men under the supervision of our woodworking mentors to fulfill product orders. As an added benefit, all profits from customer sales will support our teen mentoring mission. Consequently, October 2021 will be the target date for Walking Tall to accept orders for select Redwood outdoor furniture in limited accessories (for details, please check out our website wtredwood.com for updates.) To continue the fine tradition of Gold Hill Redwood products...
What it reported doing in 2025
Serving teen young men in grade 7 through 12, walking tall southern Oregon (walking tall)provides opportunities for mentoring young men in work skills, life skills, and building christian character. With emphasis on job readiness, walking tall also manufactures products which create additional opportunities for employment of qualified program graduates.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 72% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 66
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74.9%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 94.6%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: $45.27 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
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: 60%; rating input score 60; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 21.2%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.85; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 26%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.4% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.2% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 74.9% of revenue deployed · 94.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 5 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $323K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $48K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.