IRS sets sights on area non-profits
From our weekly issue dated September 08, 2010
Hundreds of non-profit organizations throughout Oregon, including several in the Illinois Valley, are in danger of losing their status due to their alleged failure to turn required paperwork in to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
A 134-page document posted online by the IRS shows that many of the non-profits on the list are from Josephine County and the Illinois Valley.
Cave Junction-based non-profits on the list include Cross Quest Expeditions, Illinois Valley Christian Men’s Foundation, Illinois Valley Community Educational Foundation, Illinois Valley Jubilee Association, Illinois Valley Mineral and Hobbies Club, Shining Stars, Signing Robbins Ministries for Christ, Siskiyou Action Project, Omega Trust, Tree Planter Statue Fund and the Laurel Cemetery Association.
The list includes many organizations based in Grants Pass. Those include Christian Outreach Opportunity Projects, Community Center of Grants Pass, Disabled American Veterans 11, Experimental Aviation Association Chapter 725, Faith House, Freedom House Inc., Grants Pass Interdenominational Youth Center, Interschool Television, Jefferson Amateur Radio Society, Jerome Prairie Community Hall, Jess Applegate Historical Cemetery, Josephine County Association for Retarded Citizens, Josephine County Babe Ruth League Inc., Josephine County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Oregon Medical Association of Josephine County, Redemption House, Rogue Lea Lane Water Association, Shiloh Ranch Family Outreach, Soccer Unlimited, Southern Oregon Association of Professional Mortgage Women, Southern Oregon Bigfoot Society, Southern Oregon Cancer Awareness Network, Southern Oregon Resource Alliance, Spina Bifida Association of Southern Oregon, Toastmaster International 852 and the Valley of the Rogue Chapter of the American Business Women’s Association.
Other non-profits on the list are from rural parts of Josephine County. The address listed for the Josephine County Childbirth Education Association is a Murphy-based post office box. Restoration Ministries from Wolf Creek is on the list, along with the Williams-based Southern Oregon Barter Fair, the Thompson Creek Irrigation Association from Applegate and the Merlin-North Valley Community Improvement Association.
Many of the non-profits on the list are no longer in existence. Those include, for example, the Cave Junction-based Tom’s House. That organization was headed by former mayor Tom Green, who was murdered outside of his home in December 2007.
Herb Carter, who serves as treasurer for the Southern Oregon Resource Alliance, said that group may have been included on the list because he had re-submitted some paperwork to the IRS.
“I don’t understand why they don’t have it,” Carter said. “But I think the list was generated shortly after the filing date.”
The non-profits have until Oct. 15 to file their required paperwork.
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