Agroforestry Northwest
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 922330757
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Bothell, WA, USA
- Phone
- 7034078341
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $185,065
- Expenses
- $76,440
- Assets
- $161,022
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Patrick Shults (Board President)
- Carrie Brausieck (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Patrick Shults (Board President)
- Tara Luckie (Board Treasurer)
- Abel Kloster (Secretary)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Vision - A Pacific Northwest with widespread land-based systems that simultaneously increase food production, protect our unique ecosystems, and restore human connection to place. Mission - Agroforestry Northwest connects professionals and land stewards to advance agroforestry and biocultural restoration, fostering human connection to the land and promoting systems that enhance ecological health, biodiversity, and resilient food production in the Pacific Northwest. Three Major Programs: Agroforestry Technical Assistance for land stewards 63 producers and 560 acres Implementation resources and assistance 1632 trees planted Field days and peer-to-peer networking - 13 events Resource development PNW Agroforestry Handbook to be released June 26 Biocultural Restoration Indigenous ethnobotany and land tending as part of riparian forest restoration 2 sites tended Indigenous Ecological Knowledge in land-use design 3 sites assessed for restoration Creative Ecology E
What it reported doing in 2025
Agroforestry Program - Subaward from WA State University - WSDA Specialty Crop Block Grant - for Forest Farming Trials Research & Education Subaward from Center for Rural Livelihoods - Western SARE Grant - Co-writing the Pacific Northwest Agroforestry Handbook Grant from Edwards Mother Earth Foundation to increase agroforestry awareness, education, and adoption in the Pacific Northwest
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 68
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.8%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 58.7%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.11; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 72.2%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.8% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $151K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 4 of 6 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.