The Motherline
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
The Motherline engenders a culture of repair and restoration by empowering women to cultivate a place based planet protective economy through arts agriculture youth education and inter-generational connection. Our youth programs RiverStars and Cultivate Kids teach rural youth of all ages skills in dance theater movement and agriculture. We hold community events such as our Clean Sweep trash clean up on public lands and educate around positive land stewardship. We are a newly formed non profit but our youth programs RiverStars and Cultivate Kids have been fiscally sponsored by other organizations in past years providing free beneficial and educational activities to rural youth and their families in under resourced Josephine County.
- Income
- $17,961
- Spending
- $9,408
- Reserves
- 10.9 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- donations and private grants, 81%
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Financial health
We do not score finances when yearly spending is very small or the return has too little detail. The ratios stop meaning much at that size.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
This organization files the short tax form, which does not ask about boards, policies or audits. That is normal for a small charity and is not a mark against it.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (2)
- $5,825 spent. RiverStars & Planet Dance provide art dance movement and theater intergenerational and youth classes in Josephine County Oregon free of charge to remove barriers to the high population of low income families in our region. These classes take place September through April on Fridays filling the empty space created when our local school district cut the 5th day from the school week. From April though September we provide educational programming for youth at Cultivate Kids a program that we operate at the local farmers market. These programs teach skills provide meaningful educational activities and programming and help our youth connect to the place they are living.
- The Clean Sweep is a program to clean up trash in local public lands and teach intergenerational skills for caretaking and land stewardship to our community. We host a monthly clean up day and invite volunteers to hike in beautiful places while we clean up trash that has been dumped illegally and return our public lands to useful spaces for our local population and tourists to enjoy. We also work on educational information and campaigns to help prevent future dumping and encourage a culture of care in the Illinois Valley of Josephine County. 50 plus local volunteers join in each clean ups and we feed them lunch. We provide free trash vouchers to the local family coalition to encourage people to dump their trash in appropriate designated facilities. Note: This program along with our youth programs was fiscally sponsored by a different organization for part of 2025 and the revenue and expenses that all of our programs operate on will be higher in 2026 as many expenses that we will pay in 2026 were paid by another organization in 2025 while we went through the process of applying for 501c3 status and setting up our non profit.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending December 2025.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Worth knowing.
Recognized by the IRS in October 2025. It is too new to have a track record.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated October 21, 2026.
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