Board & Governance
Who can overrule whom.
Governance is what keeps an organization from being one person’s opinion with a tax status attached. Here is how decisions actually get made.
Structure
A board of directors with real authority.
Bloom Ministries is governed by a board of directors as required of an Oregon nonprofit corporation and of a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit. The board holds fiduciary responsibility for the organization: approving budgets, overseeing financial controls, setting compensation policy, and holding the executive accountable.
Current board: Pastora Tori Matthews, President, and Sara Brown, Secretary.
We will say plainly that a two-person board is small. It satisfies Oregon’s requirements and is entirely normal for a nonprofit in its first year, but a larger and more independent board is a genuine governance improvement and it is on our roadmap rather than something we are pretending is already handled.
Naming a governance weakness before someone else does is not a risk. Pretending it does not exist is.
Financial oversight
The board approves the annual budget, reviews financial position, and sets policy on any executive compensation. The current $0 founder salary is a board-level matter, not a personal choice that can be quietly reversed.
Conflicts of interest
Directors disclose conflicts and recuse themselves from related votes. This matters especially in a small organization where the same people wear several hats.
Joining the board
We are actively interested in directors with nonprofit finance, legal, healthcare, or housing backgrounds — particularly people with lived experience in the communities Bloom serves.
Express interest →Governance documents on request.
Bylaws, conflict of interest policy, and Articles of Incorporation are available to anyone who asks for them by name.