Community Action Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 943080214
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2023
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023
- Location
- Pullman, WA, USA
- Phone
- 5093349147
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Neighborhood Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $8,768,291
- Expenses
- $9,130,154
- Assets
- $13,049,544
- Liabilities
- $13,216,405
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JEFF GUYETT (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- JEFF GUYETT (CEO): $140,227 total reported compensation
- KIMBERLY DONOHUE (CFO): $126,049 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The center provides subsidized housing, weatherization services, emergency services, energy assistance and nutrition education and supplemental food to low income individuals and families in whitman county.
What it reported doing in 2023
Community, family training, and nutritional funds: to provide support to the community and families in a variety of service areas.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 53% for direct work, and 47% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 61
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 96.9%; rating input score 97
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 86.7%; rating input score 87; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 0%; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.1%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.43; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.01; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.9%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 96.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $8.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $140K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 29 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2009 to 2023
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 5 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.
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 — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.