Evergreen Bioscience Innovation Cluster
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 922636279
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Spokane, WA, USA
- Phone
- 5092943394
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $84,635
- Expenses
- $97,872
- Assets
- $38,728
- Liabilities
- $20,148
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- Andy Johnston (Chair, Board of Directors)
- Jolene Anderson (Vice Chair)
- Scott Thielman (Secretary)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To elevate life science innovation, ecosystem growth, and workforce access. Focused on connecting and expanding the network of life science discovery, collaboration, and manufacturing across Washington, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Utah.
What it reported doing in 2025
Innovation Teams - Six volunteer led groups that address ecosystem barriers to bioscience company growth. Teams produce deliverables, over various Entrepreneurship opportunities, infrastructure opportunities, digital health, policy and program, bioscience vendors, and talent opportunities for various startup organizations within the greater community. Total number of people benefitted is 150 people.
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.
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: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 66.2%; rating input score 66
- Program expense ratio: 57.2%; rating input score 57
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -15.6%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.4; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.52; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 49%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 66.2% of revenue deployed · 57.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $56K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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 — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.