Friends of North Creek Forest
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 275439187
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Bothell, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2062904020
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Natural Resources Conservation and Protection
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $26,512
- Expenses
- $27,840
- Assets
- $42,607
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Sarah Witte (President of the Board)
- David Bain (Vice President of the Board)
People named in this filing
- Cecilia Monahan (Education Manager)
- Sarah Witte (President of the Board)
- David Bain (Vice President of the Board)
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 maintain and improve the ecological function of North Creek Forest through Education, Stewardship and Conservation in perpetuity.
What it reported doing in 2025
K-12 education events served approximately 95 students. Stewardship events served approximately 190 volunteers restoring 2 acres. Community Outreach events served approximately 460 community members.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.53; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 78.7%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $35K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 7 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.