Willamette Valley Cancer Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
320000467
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Mcminnville, OR, USA
Phone
5034356592
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Community Foundations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$304,720
Expenses
$358,435
Assets
$1,721,183
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

16 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Pattie Warner (Vice President)
  • Rosemari Davis (President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Patty Williams (Executive Dir.): $79,859 total reported compensation
  • Lisa Boschee (Admin Assistant): $41,388 total reported compensation
  • Kathleen Bernards (Director): $3,895 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Mission of the Willamette Valley Cancer Foundation is to foster hope through the support of cancer patients, education and advocacy.

What it reported doing in 2025

The Foundation assists cancer patients undergoing treatment with short term financial care in Yamhill, Tillamook and Lincoln counties. Funds are used to provide necessary expenses such as health insurance, rent, groceries & transportation to and from treatment in an effort to help patients get back on their feet from the financial burden of medical care. The Foundation funded grants to 86 patients in need for 2025. With the help of Medical Social Workers and Case Managers in the Foundation's service area, staff is able to ensure client's needs are being met with resources and information regarding their diagnosis. Additionally, the Foundation staff provides the community with an assortment of information on all cancers through Awareness and Prevention Events. The Foundation also brings awareness to many types of preventable cancers by hosting community events and fundraisers.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 69% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 42% for direct work, and 58% for grants.

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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 77
  • Transparency & Controls: 89
  • Accountability: 79
  • Sustainability: 42
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 90.5%; rating input score 90
  • Program expense ratio: 75.2%; rating input score 75
  • Fundraising efficiency: $4.93 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -17.6%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.8; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 1.1%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 90.5% of revenue deployed · 75.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $270K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $80K · 16 people listed
  • Consistency: 19 of 20 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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: 3 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 21/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 34/100.