Between the Ridges
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 463102292
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Yakima, WA, United States
- Phone
- (509) 453-4881
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Interfaith Coalitions
- Affiliation
- Interfaith
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $122,321
- Expenses
- $48,522
- Assets
- $111,121
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- David Hacker (President)
- Karina Solario (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- David Hacker (President)
- Jim Mead (Treasurer)
- Merivet Lombera (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
Between the Ridges describes its overarching work as forming relationships and creating community across barriers, and as a mutual learning community where people can listen to one another and seek new visions of reconciliation. In 2016, Between the Ridges provided free confidential water testing to 250 homes on the Yakama Reservation testing for nitrates, lead, and bacteria, and providing remediation for contaminated wells. Results of the testing were provided to each household and an overall report was provided to the Yakama Nation. For bacteria contamination, coaching was provided on how to bleach wells. The project also installed lead certified water filters for about 20 households who could not afford them. Support for this project came from the Yakama Nation, Yakima Valley Community College, Heritage University, Legends Casino, a-based and many other faith-based organizations...
What it reported doing in 2025
Yakima Association of Faith Communities an interfaith organization that sponsors a variety of events service projects and donations to other charitable organizations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 60% 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
SUPPORTED - 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 some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 77
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 44.4%; rating input score 44
- 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: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 60.3%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.29; rating input score 83; 83rd 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: 29.5% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 51.2% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 35.4% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 44.4% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 6 filed program accomplishments · $54K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 44/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.