Ashley House
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 943080307
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Federal Way, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2535339050
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Patient Services - Entertainment, Recreation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $27,040,533
- Expenses
- $26,258,859
- Assets
- $21,484,273
- Liabilities
- $9,336,594
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
24 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- STEPHEN L FREEBORN (PRESIDENT)
- JASON OWENS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- KEN MAAZ ((FORMER) EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- KEN MAAZ ((FORMER) EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $211,003 total reported compensation
- ERICA PERNELA (DIRECTOR OF CLINICAL SERVI): $201,093 total reported compensation
- MALYNDA MCCARTER (RN): $184,646 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We are dedicated to providing education to families and caregivers, building support systems, coordinating services and nurturing the development of each individual.
What it reported doing in 2025
Ashley house provided transitional nursing care services, hospice services, case management and social services to 61 medically fragile children in 2025. Ashley house provides these services in six group homes, in family-like settings. The homes are staffed 24 hours a day with nurses and cna's. Additional staff are utilized to take children to medical appointments, and on outings. Our specific objective is to enable children to be returned to their own home, or to seek adoption or foster care. Hence, we are a setting for transitional care until permanency is obtained.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 98% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 96% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.2%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 87.2%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $0.54 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.9%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.82; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.43; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.5%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.7% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.6% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.2% of revenue deployed · 87.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $22.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $211K · 24 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $480K reported
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 15 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 2/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 27/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.