Architects Without Borders Seattle

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
203419971
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2016–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2014
Location
Seattle, WA, USA
Phone
4434651963
Rating
38
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$61,876
Expenses
$61,673
Assets
$56,825
Liabilities
$785

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • GABRIEL QUIJADA (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • GABRIEL QUIJADA (PRESIDENT)
  • JOHN KOPPE (DIRECTOR)
  • CORINNA KRAUSKOPF (DIRECTOR)

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

Architects without borders seattle facilitates collaboration between underserved communities and volunteers who provide pro bono services to deliver ecologically sensitive, culturally appropriate, life-changing design.

What it reported doing in 2025

More than 1000 volunteers and supporters have engaged with awbs for positive impact through design locally in seattle, and in more than a dozen countries internationally. In 2021 awbs continued adjusted operations to keep our volunteers and community safe during the covid-19 pandemic, while planning for the time when more normal operations could commence. Volunteers have provided design services for access to community health care facilities in sierra leone and critical public sanitation facilities on mount everest. Awbs volunteers also gave time to support safe and dignified housing for people experiencing homelessness in seattle in collaboration with the block project.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 3
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 44
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 3.4%; rating input score 3
  • Program expense ratio: 1.7%; rating input score 2

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 0.3%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.92; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -27% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -2.1% per year; rating input score 0; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 3.4% of revenue deployed · 1.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2016 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 3/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 45/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.