Center for Chronic Illness
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 812183510
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Phone
- 4252962705
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $116,481
- Expenses
- $117,642
- Assets
- $302
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Allison Fine (Executive Director)
- Emily Woitas (President)
- Tashau Asefaw (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Allison Fine (Executive Director)
- Emily Woitas (President)
- Tashau Asefaw (Vice President)
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
Center for Chronic Illness promotes well-being and decreases isolation for those impacted by chronic illness through support and education.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Center for Chronic Illness (CCI) promotes well-being and decreases isolation for those impacted by ongoing health challenges through support and education. CCI provides free, virtual support groups for patients impacted by autoimmune diseases, rare diseases, invisible illnesses, physical disabilities, chronic pain conditions, and more. CCI currently offers over 20 support group meetings each month, including Living with Chronic Illness, Living Mindfully with Chronic Illness, Rare Chronic Illness, Supporting Loved Ones, Parenting Chronic Illness, Teens Living with Chronic Illness, Supporting African Americans Living with Chronic Illness, LGBTQIA+ and Living with Chronic Illness, COVID-19 Longhaulers, and more. Each program is designed to bring patients together who are impacted by different health challenges and give them a safe and compassionate space to talk about the challenges they face as a result of ongoing illness. CCI also offers health education programs periodically for patients and continuing education programs for mental health care providers. An average of 8-15 participants join each meeting from all 50 states. In addition, CCI serves a large handful of individuals from other countries in the programs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 51
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 51%; rating input score 51
- Program expense ratio: 50.5%; rating input score 50
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: -1%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 55.1%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -60.6% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 51% of revenue deployed · 50.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $59K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 51/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.