Cowlitz County Habitat for Humanity
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 911986972
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Longview, WA, USA
- Phone
- 3604256177
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,068,923
- Expenses
- $1,234,949
- Assets
- $3,429,049
- Liabilities
- $1,718,258
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ELIZABETH GRAY-WEEKLEY (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- DIANE PERRON (EXECUTIVE DI): $111,037 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Habitats vision: a world where everyone has a decent place to live. Mission statement: seeking to put gods love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope. About habitat: we are a nonprofit, ecumenical christian ministry that builds with people in need regardless of race or religion. We welcome volunteers and supporters from all backgrounds. We are one of approximimately 1,200 local affiliates in the united states and more than 70 national organizations around the world. Together, we have helped over 10 million people worldwide to improve their living conditions since the habitat international founding in 1976. Locally, we started in 2000 and have helped dozens of families through our repair work and through our financial and leadership development sessions. There are over 2 billion people around the world who live in slum housing and more than 100 million are homeless. Habitat helps by building or renovating simple, decent houses in p
What it reported doing in 2024
Cowlitz county habitat for humanity has been serving cowlitz county since 2000. Our focus in serving out our mission to the community continues with both new home construction and in exterior repair and rehab work. The new homes are sold to qualified families with zero interest mortgage loans and the payments do not exceed over 30% of their qualified and verified income. All applicants, whether it be through a new or rehab/repair program participate in the sweat equity model. We are a "hand-up" organization and believe that all applicants best learn and maintain their status when they are invested with sweat equity and educational requirements. We are an actively engaged affiliate partnering with several organizations to enhance building hope, homes & community. We work diligently with the neighborhood revitalization efforts in cowlitz county and have worked in two specific neighborhoods (south kelso and the highlands). We worked with the community to enhance the existing revitalization plan and to engage the residents to improve their own lives and that of their neikgghborhood. We are currently committed participants (including board service) with the kcba (kelso community and business association) which is made up of residents and a wealth of non-profit agencies and representatives of organizations and local jurisdictions for the purpose of communicating needs, beautifying and solidifying the neighborhoods and finding solutions related to neighborhood renewal projects. Cowlitz county habitat for humanity also offers training, education and leadership development opportunities. We additionally partner with organizations such as esd112 and work with their youth employment services program, among others. We provide hands on training to youth (typically ages 16 to 24) at both our habitat store and on our construction sites. We believe that by providing the youth with these skills, they will continue on with their education and remain in our community providing these necessary and important trades. A brush with kindness (abwk) is a growing program within the cowlitz county habitat for humanity offerings. It is a program that provides exterior home improvement projects to low income homeowners. Similar to our new home construction program, applicants must be willing to participate (via sweat equity) and meet the project qualifications and criteria. We currently undertake 12 - 25 abwk projects each year. This opportunity also allows us to engage youth.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 93
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 95.3%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: $17.41 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: -15.5%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.78; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.5; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 95.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $111K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 40/100.