Failsafe for Life
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 813525568
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Spokane, WA, USA
- Phone
- 5094757334
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $113,021
- Expenses
- $133,369
- Assets
- $82,857
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SABRINA VOTAVA (BOARD PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ANNA BOWERS (BOARD MEMBER)
- JESSICA MORAN (BOARD MEMBER)
- KATIE BOUSLEY (BOARD MEMBER)
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
Failsafe for life is a spokane-based non-profit with a mission to end suicide in our community through connection, education, and hope.
What it reported doing in 2024
Our main program is training, which includes qpr workshops, asist workshops, mental health matters, mental health matters and suicide recognition and referral. These trainings all equip participants to recognize the warning signs for when someone may be thinking of suicide, how to have a conversation about suicide, and what the next steps are in making sure they stay safe and get the care they need. Along with these, we have a blog, podcast, engage with people via social media, host kindness campaigns every fall to promote connection, and support other organization's events that coincide with our mission.
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 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: 35
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 37%; rating input score 37
- Program expense ratio: 31.4%; rating input score 31
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: -18%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.62; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 29% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.7% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.2% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 37% of revenue deployed · 31.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $42K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 37/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 31/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.