Empire Health Community Advocacy Fund
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 843155527
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Spokane, WA, USA
- Phone
- 5093151260
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,356,161
- Expenses
- $1,274,232
- Assets
- $21,508,131
- Liabilities
- $269,087
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- THOMAS E SMITH (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- THOMAS E SMITH (PRESIDENT): $351,793 total reported compensation
- JONATHAN TEETERS (POLICY DIRECTOR): $145,446 total reported compensation
- JANAE PERKINS (SENIOR FINANCE DIRECTOR): $91,198 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Promote improved health care access; promote health professions education; promote community health/wellness; promote enhanced healthcare through research; improve public policy discourse for solutions to local health challenges.
What it reported doing in 2024
Through the community story fund, the organization engages a diverse set of community partners, from across its region, in a story-telling project. Specifically, the organization resources communities to tell a specific story about their identity, strengths, needs, and/or vision. Past, present, or future, these stories provide critical information about where the organization and others might build deeper and authentic relationship with communities, invest in community-defined capacity, or more effectively support an advocacy agenda driven by community vision. Grant funds received orginally in 2020, with renewed funding in 2021 to continue the work in 2022 and beyond. Six grants were given in the current year to organizations to support general operation.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Investment-supported. 61% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The program-spending lines do not add up, so the filing cannot show reliably whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - 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 revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 66.5%; rating input score 67
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 96.5%; rating input score 97; 44th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 16.88; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 22%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 40.2% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -65.1% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 66.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $848K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $352K · 11 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 27 of 28 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 28 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 25 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 9 not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.