DARKSKY OREGON

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

C60

Classification

1280

Street

PO BOX 777

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

• INTERNATIONAL DARK SKY PLACES CONSERVATION & CERTIFICATION, SKY QUALITY MONITORING & DATA COLLECTION, EDUCATION & OUTRREACH PROGRAMMING.THE PROJECT'S PRIMARY AIM IS TO QUANTITATIVELY MEASURE, INTERPRET, AND SHARE SKYGLOW MEASUREMENTS ON OREGON TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE CURRENT LEVEL OF LIGHT POLLUTION IN COMPARISON TO OTHER REGIONS AND TO DOCUMENT ANY CHANGES OVER A FIVE YEAR PERIOD. THE SKY GLOW DATA WILL HELP TO INFORM ACTION TOWARD HEALTHIER AND SAFER COMMUNITIES WITH LESS LIGHT POLLUTION. THE DATA WILL ALSO SUPPORT LOCAL EFFORTS TO NOMINATE SITES UNDER DARKSKY INTERNATIONAL'S DARK SKY PLACE PROGRAM.

  Expenses $37,697

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2025

  Revenue

  $435,541

  Expenses

  $37,697

  Contributions

  $422,671

  Grants paid

  $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2024

Tax period

1 January 2024 to 31 December 2024

Principal officer

William S Kowalik

Mailing address

PO Box 777Bend OR 97709

Website

www.darkskyoregon.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $400,050

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• CENTRAL OREGON VISITORS ASSOCIATION

  $24,500

  2023 · SUPPORT

Other IRS files