Freedom Northwest Credit Union

Nonprofit profile at a glance

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

17 people listed

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

Promoting the financial well-being of members by providing loan and savings services at competitive rates.

Savings, loans, and investments

Revenue model: Earned-program. 90% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model: Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
Foreign activity oversight: Limited
Grant itemization coverage: 50.9%; rating input score 51; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Limited
Related-party transparency: Limited

Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Operating margin: 29.3%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 20.25; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.88; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Officer compensation ratio: 7.8%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings

Program expense growth: -34.5% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: 20.6% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: 19.8% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings

Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
Leadership: top reported pay $490K · 17 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $742K reported
Consistency: 10 of 11 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
Filing history: 11 filing years from 2010 to 2024
Contacts: How to reach this organization
Money network: 19 filed money-flow records
Related organizations: 2 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.
Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

Review — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 51/100.
Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.
Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 31/100.