Embrace Washington
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472048062
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2018, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Spokane, WA, USA
- Phone
- 5093815370
- Rating
- 58
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Foster Care
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $462,664
- Expenses
- $409,963
- Assets
- $363,150
- Liabilities
- $12,796
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Cola Boyer (President)
- Lorraine Tunca (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- TERRI CRAFTS (Executive Dir.): $82,500 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Providing support for foster care children and parents
What it reported doing in 2025
Providing duffle bags to foster children for their belongings during emergency relocations. Providing an annual christmas party, complete with breakfast, gifts, and picture with santa for foster families. Assisting foster families with items (beds, high-chairs, car seats, etc.) needed in order to have foster children in their homes. This activity impacted over 930 individuals involved in the foster care system.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 77% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 37
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 52
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 40.8%; rating input score 41
- Program expense ratio: 43.4%; rating input score 43
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 26th 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: 61.5%; rating input score 62; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 11.4%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.89; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 20.1%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 40.8% of revenue deployed · 43.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 13 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $178K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $82K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 27 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 41/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 43/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.