Wilderings
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 844336786
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Portland, OR, USA
- Phone
- 4045134797
- Rating
- 57
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $105,743
- Expenses
- $100,562
- Assets
- $22,511
- Liabilities
- $3,415
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Laura Green (Vice President)
- Sascha Demerjian (President)
People named in this filing
- Laura Green (Vice President)
- Sascha Demerjian (President)
- Daniel Barton (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 Grief House creates and supports community-led offerings that foster the metabolism of grief from all kinds of loss. We do this by cultivating, curating, and collaborating on gatherings and experiences at the Grief House and aligned project spaces throughout the community. We work to hold physical and virtual space for grief to be expressed, shared and witnessed without judgment, and to re-integrate our experience of grief through a variety of somatic practices.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025 we held 479 offerings, welcoming over 2,702 grievers, half of whom accessed our programming through no-cost tickets.
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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending 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: 36
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 35.2%; rating input score 35
- Program expense ratio: 37%; rating input score 37
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.9%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.22; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 78.4% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 25.1% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.2% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 35.2% of revenue deployed · 37% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $37K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 35/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 37/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 44/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.