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FOUR RIVERS COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC

FOUR RIVERS COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC (Oregon) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $462,808 to it, the largest being MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST ($270,001). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$6.4M
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$463k
Net assets
$3.7M
5/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Four Rivers Community School Inc does

Mission

To operate and administer a public charter school.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Operate and administer a state-sponsored charter school, recieve and administer assets of the charter school, conduct any and all activities of the charter school, acheivement and furtherance of the charter school.

    $2,910,489 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,910,489.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($4.1M) Expenses 100 ($4.0M) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2021 Revenue 102 ($4.2M) Expenses 110 ($4.4M) Net assets 86 ($1.1M)2022 Revenue 133 ($5.5M) Expenses 107 ($4.3M) Net assets 179 ($2.3M)2023 Revenue 133 ($5.5M) Expenses 127 ($5.1M) Net assets 211 ($2.8M)2024 Revenue 139 ($5.7M) Expenses 135 ($5.4M) Net assets 236 ($3.1M)2025 Revenue 155 ($6.4M) Expenses 144 ($5.8M) Net assets 283 ($3.7M)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (155)Expenses (144)Net assets (283)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $8.2M to $9.5M (+15%).

$5.9M
$6.6M
$7.4M
$7.9M
$8.2M
$9.5M
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2024 67% · 2025 74%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of FOUR RIVERS COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$128k
’20
−$182k
’21
$1.2M
’22
$428k
’23
$306k
’24
$609k
’25
6.0
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Board chair

Pam Wettstein

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202020212022202320242025
Listed666677
Joined·+1+0+0+2+0
No longer listed·10010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $5k → $87k.

3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of FOUR RIVERS COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 9 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

FOUR RIVERS COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

58%
largest funder
94%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 46% · 2021 60% · 2022 100% · 2023 71% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

67% of FOUR RIVERS COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

99% of FOUR RIVERS COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC's grant income comes from Oregon funders.

ID
OR

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’20
’21
’23
Oregon out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $46k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FOUR RIVERS COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin10% · above the median
Months of reserve6.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding FOUR RIVERS COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.5M on record.

State$5.5M
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25
Top programs
  • DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$5.5M
  • INTERAGENCY LEASE PAYMENTS$43k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like FOUR RIVERS COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Oregon

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

53% of spending goes to programs.

Program 53%Management 47%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

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Questions and answers

Who funds FOUR RIVERS COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC?
FOUR RIVERS COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC (Oregon) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $462,808 to it, the largest being MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST ($270,001). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FOUR RIVERS COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $462,808 in grants to FOUR RIVERS COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FOUR RIVERS COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC?
MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $270,001 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FOUR RIVERS COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 9 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing