Affirmative Collective
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 870997791
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Phone
- 9712212419
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Mental Health, Crisis Intervention N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $89,680
- Expenses
- $88,199
- Assets
- $11,844
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kiana Clay (President)
- Miles Feller (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Jamie Layton (Treasurer)
- Kiana Clay (President)
- Miles Feller (Vice President)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Affirmative Collective was formed to promote justice-related advancements in the development and implementation of evidence-based psychological assessments and interventions in diverse populations. Community mental health programs are often understaffed, with long waiting lists, and many don't focus on providing evidence-based practices (EBP). Careful, affirming, competent, anti-oppressive therapy requires a commitment to ongoing and advanced training, which requires time and resources. Many EBPs have not been validated in marginalized populations, leaving it open whether best practices are best practices for all. Manualized treatment plans do not always build in explicit acknowledgment of identity, especially in relation to oppression and intersectional identities. TAC's mission is to provide world-class, evidence-based, culturally aware care for underserved and marginalized populations through establishment of clinics and ongoing supervision and training of employed clinicians.
What it reported doing in 2024
TAC's primary goal is to provide world-class, evidence-based, culturally aware care for underserved and marginalized populations. All of TAC's time and resources were allocated to this goal. TAC achieves this goal through the establishment of clinics and training/mentorship programs. Utilizing primarily CBT and third-wave interventions, practitioners offered outpatient care for conditions such as mood disorders, trauma/PTSD, OCD, SUD, and sleep difficulties. To date, TAC has served more than 125 clients. TAC also sought to develop and promote the careers of psychologists and psychologists-in-training who hold marginalized identities through advanced training and mentorship. A majority of these clinicians are post-masters doctoral clinical psychology students in Washington receiving payment for their services and exceptional training. TAC has developed a thoughtful and robust practice of mentorship for our clinicians-in-training, including paying for licensed clinical psychologists for supervision and financially supporting employees' ongoing clinical training by sponsoring enrollment in world-class continuing education programs offered by non-TAC organizations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 97% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.7%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 73%; rating input score 73
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.7%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.13; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 23.6%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 19.5% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -18.6% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.6% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 71.7% of revenue deployed · 73% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $64K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.