Wooden Fish Parents First

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
880949716
IRS 990 coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-N 2024
Location
Portland, OR, USA
Phone
5038906681
Rating
70
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Educational Services and Schools - Other

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$340,750
Expenses
$169,562
Assets
$198,930
Liabilities
$1,966

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

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • KALA KIAHD (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • BENDREA ANDREWS (EXECUTIVE DI): $26,967 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Our mission is to provide exceptional care and resources for children and families, while fostering each child's intellectual, social, physical, and moral development in a safe and nurturing environment. Wooden fish parents first provides resources, guidance, and training for single parents and children in high-risk areas. Parents first offers a welcoming space where families can learn social, emotional, physical, and intellectual parenting skills, while receiving additional assistance from our grant programs. We provide safe, stable care for families who want to encourage their childrens development in a setting that honors diversity and respects the environment in collaboration with families and the greater community.

What it reported doing in 2025

In 2025, wooden fish parents first continued to grow its community-based family support, youth development, and violence prevention work. Through the big fish program, we focused on supporting youth and families in high- risk communities by creating safe spaces, mentorship opportunities, positive adult relationships, and practical life-skill programming. We served families through parent engagement, youth mentoring, tutoring support, community outreach, and resource connection.we also continued building programs that help families beyond the classroom, including parent coaching, youth development activities, food support, and community engagement events. Meals were provided during programming and outreach efforts to reduce barriers for families and encourage participation. In total, we served approximately thousandfamilies and provided approximately 3,000 meals during the year.one major achievement was continuing to strengthen our program model around prevention, mentorship, and family stability. We also began developing new project ideas, including the 3m project mentoring men in motors which is designed to reach older youth and young adults through automotive mentorship, workforce exposure, responsibility, discipline, and positive community connection.our overall achievement in 2025 was that wooden fish parents first continued to be a trusted community resource for families, youth, and single parents by combining mentorship, education, outreach, food support, and violence- prevention programming in a way that meets families where they are.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 88% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
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 most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 58
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 63
  • Sustainability: 63
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 47.1%; rating input score 47
  • Program expense ratio: 94.7%; rating input score 95
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 50.2%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.17; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 15.9%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -17.1% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 27.5% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 39.3% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 47.1% of revenue deployed · 94.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $161K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $27K · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 47/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 40/100.