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HAPPY CANYON FOUNDATION INC

EIN 93-6042747 PENDLETON, OR

Largest nonprofits in Oregon

Revenue 2025
$680,681
Expenses 2025
$89,704

Program services were 99.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B82
Classification
2000
Street
PO BOX 609

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).

Other organizations at this address

3 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

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Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

TO PROVIDE SCHOLARSHIPS TO THE LOCAL YOUTH, DONATIONS TO LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS AND SUPPORT THE HAPPY CANYON NIGHT SHOW TO HELP PRESERVE PENDLETON'S HISTORY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO PROVIDE PERPETUAL MEMORY OF THE OLD WEST AND THE PIONEERS WHO BROUGHT CVILIZATION TO OREGON AND UMATILLA COUNTY. TO PRESERVE FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS THE MEMORY OF THE MANNER OF LIFE, PLEASURES, AND HARDSHIPS OF THE EMIGRANTS ON THE OREGON TRAIL; TO PRESERVE THE CUSTOMS AND LIFE OF THE INDIAN TRIBES WHO OCCUPIED THE OREGON COUNTRY; TO PRESERVE PROTECT AND HONOR THE MEMORY OF VETERANS; TO ENCOURAGE ANNUAL COMMUNITY CELEBRATION AND ENTERTAINMENT. THE FOUNDATION ANNUALLY AWARDS SCHOLARSHIPS TO LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES TO ASSIST WITH THE COST OF SECONDARY EDUCATION AND MAKES DONATIONS TO LOCAL CHARITABLE, EDUCATIONAL AND CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS.

  • PROVIDED 13 SCHOLARSHIPS TO LOCAL YOUTH.

    Expenses $75,057 · Grants $31,000

  • PROVIDED FUNDING FOR UPGRADES TO HAPPY CANYON COMPANY INC FACILITIES.

  • HAPPY CANYON FOUNDATION WILL KEEP ANNUAL OPERATING CASH ON HAND TOTALING ONE YEAR'S EXPENSES IN EITHER CASH OR CASH EQUIVALENT ACCOUNTS, OR ANOTHER AMOUNT APPROVED BY AN INVESTMENT COMMITTEE. THE FOUNDATION HAS BEEN ABLE TO INVEST FUNDS IN ORDER TO MEET ANTICIPATED NEEDS FOR CONTINUATION OF THE SHOW AND ABILITY TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR FUTURE SCHOLARS.

    Expenses $14,285

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.

  • Kelsey Garton

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Allen Waggoner

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Corey Neistadt

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Randy Perkins

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Chris Cockburn

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Jason Hill

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Michael Corey

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Cory Williams

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Tanner Hawkins

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Matt Duchek

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Jerrod Spriet

    VICE PRESIDE

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Tim Hawkins

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

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
    $680,681
    Expenses
    $89,704
    Contributions
    $580,170
    Grants paid
    $31,000
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $152,618
    Expenses
    $68,103
    Contributions
    $75,996
    Grants paid
    $14,375
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $404,514
    Expenses
    $69,959
    Contributions
    $355,135
    Grants paid
    $57,500
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $648,529
    Expenses
    $26,863
    Contributions
    $615,751
    Grants paid
    $22,000

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.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $375,675
    Expenses
    $393,634
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,348,169
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $414,507
    Expenses
    $383,464
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,366,128
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $258,488
    Expenses
    $21,997
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,335,085
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $55,766
    Expenses
    $16,719
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,098,594
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $41,953
    Expenses
    $24,395
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,059,547
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $104,143
    Expenses
    $17,648
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,041,989
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $713,214
    Expenses
    $7,137
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,955,494
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $367,806
    Expenses
    $13,735
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,249,417
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $279,334
    Expenses
    $29,083
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,895,332
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $5,110
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,645,081

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

  • HAPPY CANYON COMPANY INC

    $36,000

    2023

  • HAPPY CANYON COMPANY INC

    $15,000

    2022

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2025 return

  • ROUND-UP HALL OF FAME ASSOCIATION

    501C3 · MUSEUM · OR

  • HAPPY CANYON COMPANY

    501C4 · PRODUCTION · OR

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.