Buildup Washington

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
332612992
IRS 990 coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Olympia, WA, USA
Phone
2532364345
Rating
70
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$599,726
Expenses
$540,858
Assets
$58,868
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • HEATHER CLARKE (TREASURER): $20,500 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Buildup Washington participated in direct advocacy work through online digital advertising, and patch through phone call and text messaging campaigns that connected constituents with the political representatives.

What it reported doing in 2025

Digital advertising - buildup Washington's digital advertising campaign included targeted static advertisements on public and social media websites with the purpose of educating legislators constituent base on the harmful realities behind adopting a rent control policy in Washington state. Buw's online display ads, on public websites, cultivated 5,397,666 impressions and its facebook display ads cultivated 272,111 impressions.text/phone campaign - buildup Washington's text/phone campaign included targeted text messages and phone calls to constituents in priority jurisdictions in order to connect the public with their legislators and speak to the negative effects of rent control on wa state. The text messaging campaign yielded 120,403 successful delivered texts to wa residents, and the patch through calls yielded 12,555 patches to lawmakers.website - buildup Washington's website was created as a landing page to educate the general public on the harmful effects of rent control. It also included a feature to where members of the public could send pre-written letters to their legislators specifically regarding rent control.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% 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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 73
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 53
  • Sustainability: 45
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 78.5%; rating input score 79
  • Program expense ratio: 87.1%; rating input score 87
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 9.8%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.11; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 3.8%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 78.5% of revenue deployed · 87.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 6 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $471K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $20K · 6 people listed
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $381K reported
  • Consistency: 15 of 15 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 52/100.