Dream Big Wellness
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 611994293
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Phone
- 4253904882
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Counseling, Support Groups
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $350,933
- Expenses
- $361,395
- Assets
- $40,068
- Liabilities
- $120
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Bonnie Walchuk see Sch O (President/Clinician)
Highest reported compensation
- Bonnie Walchuk see Sch O (President/Clinician): $94,667 total reported compensation
- Katie Kapugi see Sch O (VP/Secretary/Clinical Director): $86,489 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission is to 1) Increase equitable access to Art Therapy. 2) Create safe and sustainable healing environments through the integration of Art Therapy, psychotherapy, and nature-based healing modalities. 3) Provide Art Therapy across diverse demographics. 4) Foster collaborative community with supportive organizations upholding wellness and renewal to those from various economic circumstances.
What it reported doing in 2025
Expansion of Clinical ServicesDream Big Wellnesses' Biggest accomplishment in 2025 was expanded clinical mental health and art therapy services and practice. This expansion supported our mission to increase low-barrier access to art therapy and psychotherapy services across diverse demographics and various financial circumstances. We hired four new clinicians in 2025, making our clinical team to a total of 8 clinicians, increasing capacity for client care and access to art therapy and mental health services. We provided 5,970 session hours in 2025, Our full time clinicians averaged 15-20, and our part time clinicians averaged 10-15 sessions per week, averaging 115 hours of care to clients per week. This expansion involved getting each new clinician paneled with Insurance, and our established clinicians increased their insurance paneling including Medicare.with continued high quality financial infrastructure and data tracking.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 92% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 52
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.5%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 88.9%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $11.43 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 50%; rating input score 50; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: -3%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.11; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 50.1%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 65.7% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 43.9% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -9.5% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91.5% of revenue deployed · 88.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 4 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $321K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $95K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 50/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.