BestStart Washington

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
912133539
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2016–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2015, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Mercer Island, WA, USA
Phone
2062639105
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Pediatrics Research

Reported finances

Revenue
$113,917
Expenses
$63,955
Assets
$65,465

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Danette Glassy (President)

People named in this filing

  • Danette Glassy (President)
  • Julian Ayer (Treasurer)
  • Kyle Yasuda (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

BestStart Washington gives children their best start toward lifelong success and resilience by working to improve their physical health, emotional wellbeing and academic achievement. Founded and governed by pediatricians, BestStart Washington collaborates with community pediatricians, families and other partners to develop and fund innovative programs that give children the best possible start on healthy and productive lives.

What it reported doing in 2024

Earth Wilders is a program designed and implemented by Dr. Alexandra Perkins. BSW accepted an award from the Norcliffe Foundation to support her Earth Wilders - an after-school mental health curriculum that teaches social-emotional skills through the completion of an ecosystem restoration project. By the end of the program, students should feel more connected to the natural world, and a greater sense of agency in helping restore themselves through restoring their environment. This was in partnership with New Futures Afterschool program, run through Southwest Youth & Family Services, and is coordinated by the Environmental Science Center at Seahurst Park. The Norcliffe Funds reimbursed her program fro naturalists to present the program, development of the curriculum, plants and equipment used in the restoration, and refreshments.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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

STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 69
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 68
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 53.1%; rating input score 53
  • Program expense ratio: 94.5%; rating input score 95

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: 43.9%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.02; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -19.8% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -9.5% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 53.1% of revenue deployed · 94.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $60K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2016 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 53/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.