Common Good Seattle
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 842020760
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2022
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2022
- Location
- C, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2065102662
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $123,661
- Expenses
- $116,798
- Assets
- $10,016
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Tim Gaydos (President)
People named in this filing
- Tim Gaydos (President)
- Christopher Williams (Chair)
- Nelson Reyneri (Vice-Chair)
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 2022. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Charitable - To bring people together to increase civil discourse.
What it reported doing in 2022
2021 continued to be the year of the pandemic. Together Washington built a coalition in order to respond to the needs of underserved families during the pandemic by distributing "Family Emergency Kits." The coalition consisted of Seattle Public Schools, Seattle Parks and Recreation, Urban League of Seattle, World Vision and other non-profit partners. Together Washington set up distribution sites across central and south Seattle and over the course of the next 12 months distributed 74,000 Family Emergency Kits, which consisted of fresh food, shelf stable food, essential items (hand sanitizer, face masks), and educational resources for children. Many of these distributions also consisted of free lunches, free clothing, and free sports equipment which many of our non-profit partners donated. The amount of food distributed in the kit would serve a family of 5 for one week. Together Washington was able to serve 370,000 people during this time. Together Washington also began to produce a podcast in 2021 to tell the stories of inspiring community leaders who are building the common good. Many of our podcast episodes went viral and over the course of the year, 21 episodes were distributed with 275,000 downloads.
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.1%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 93.3%; rating input score 93
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.5%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.09; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 78.9%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -16.8% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88.1% of revenue deployed · 93.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $109K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2019 to 2022
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 48/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.