Compass Housing Alliance

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
910578229
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
Location
Seattle, WA, United States
Phone
206-474-1000 (Administrative Offices & Administrative Mailing Address)
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Homeless Shelters

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$21,020,077
Expenses
$21,247,861
Assets
$41,021,586
Liabilities
$18,756,087

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

29 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DAVID DUEA (DIRECTOR, CEO LCSNW)
  • MICHAEL BAILEY (PRESIDENT THRU 10/24)
  • CHRISTOPHER ROSS (PRESIDENT FROM 10/24)

Highest reported compensation

  • MICHAEL BAILEY (PRESIDENT THRU 10/24): $320,912 total reported compensation
  • DAVID DUEA (DIRECTOR, CEO LCSNW): $311,987 total reported compensation
  • HEIKE LAKE (DIRECTOR): $251,761 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Compass Housing Alliance develops and provides essential services, shelter, and affordable housing so that everyone in our community has a safe place to call home. This merger allows us to dream big, and we are unifying from a position of strength because of the support of people just like you. As a valued supporter of Compass’s mission, please know that our caring and your contributions will be more important to furthering our endeavors than ever. Your continued dedication to our guests and residents will be the passport to our future as Compass delivers its services and develops new ways to address our region’s housing crisis. Our mission, vision, and values, which bind us to the communities we serve, will continue to guide our work everyday. They are fundamental to everything we do. This merger is premised on adding strength to one another and to op.

What it reported doing in 2024

Emergency services: compass is enhanced shelter provider that supplies basic needs to those who are experiencing homelessness or housing instability. We offer access to beds and staffing 24/7, meals, hygiene (shower & laundry), case management, mental health 2x week from outsideproviders. We offer 222 beds for male and female identifying adults 18 and older. Compass supports those who are experiencing homelessness, housing instability, low income and housed individuals and families. We offer mail services to allow participants to have an address to receive all types of mail. This establishes an address for outside service providers to receive government services, state and federal for example tanf, food stamps, medicare and medicaid, veteran benefits. Our compass 210 center allows participants to walk in and receive case management, meals, mental health services, relief from heat or cold weather, restrooms, shower, laundry as well as access to a computer with a printer.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 78% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 90% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

STRONG - 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 79
  • Transparency & Controls: 88
  • Accountability: 78
  • Sustainability: 40
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 80.6%; rating input score 81
  • Program expense ratio: 79.7%; rating input score 80
  • Fundraising efficiency: $28.62 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Pass
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 99.9%; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 84.6%; rating input score 85; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -1.1%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.93; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.46; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 4.9%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -0.8% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 80.6% of revenue deployed · 79.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 11 of 13 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $16.9M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $321K · 29 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $515K reported
  • Consistency: 39 of 39 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 16 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 26/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 51/100.