Building Industry Association of Washington
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 916087698
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Tumwater, WA, USA
- Phone
- 3603527800
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,042,399
- Expenses
- $2,361,527
- Assets
- $13,429,310
- Liabilities
- $892,769
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
189 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KENT AROLA (PRESIDENT)
- AARON MARVIN (FIRST VICE PRESIDENT/TREASURER)
- NICK GILLILAND (SECOND VICE PRESIDENT)
- MATT WILLARD (THIRD VICE PRESIDENT)
- JAY ROBERTS (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)
- GREGORY LANE (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- GREGORY LANE (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT): $399,454 total reported compensation
- JAN HIMEBAUGH (VICE PRESIDENT EXTERNAL AFFAIRS): $247,548 total reported compensation
- STEPHEN HYER (VICE PRESIDENT OPERATIONS): $179,182 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The building industry association of Washington (biaw) is the voice of the housing industry in the state of Washington. The association is dedicated to ensuring and enhancing the vitality of the building industry for the benefit of its members and the housing needs of the citizens. To accomplish this purpose, the association's primary focus is to interact with the legislative, regulatory, judicial and executive agencies of Washington's government. Biaw will offer its members those services which can be best provided on a statewide basis and will deisseminate information concerning the building industry to all association members and the public.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provide information on new developments and issues regarding the industry via newsletter, meetings and conferences monitoring of new legislative and department of labor and industries issues that affect the industry.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 89% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 97.3%; rating input score 97; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -15.6%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.69; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.3%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.1% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 182 of 182 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $399K · 189 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 12 of 13 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 4 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 55/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 55/100.