Ethnic Heritage Council

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
911151854
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2016–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Seattle, WA, USA
Phone
2062455341
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$12,215
Expenses
$19,693
Assets
$29,405
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CYNTHIA MEJIA-GIUDICI (CO-PRESIDENT/ACTING TREASU)
  • GAIL ENGLER (CO-PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • LINDA LEE (BOARD MEMBER)
  • JUNE CUTLER (BOARD MEMBER)
  • EMILIA DOMINGUEZ (BOARD MEMBER/MARKETING)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

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

Overview

Mission

Member organizations work to preserve and document ethnic heritage, advance cross-cultural understanding and inform area residents about ethnic issues.

What it reported doing in 2024

We are history keepers. An ongoing series of workshops on archiving the cultural and historical records of ethnic communities and families in the pacific northwest. The free, day-long workshops are hosted in communities around the puget sound in collaboration with local ethnic and historical associations. Workshop sessions are led by archivists and information specialists from the university of Washington libraries and other organizations who teach best practices and help build skills related to preserving historical records.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 95% 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.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 69
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 37
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 80.6%; rating input score 81
  • Program expense ratio: 50%; rating input score 50

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -61.2%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.49; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -12.2% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -8.3% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 80.6% of revenue deployed · 50% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $10K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 50/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.