Heart of America Northwest

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
911411753
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Seattle, WA, USA
Phone
2068199015
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$64,089
Expenses
$74,124
Assets
$10,141
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Amber Waldref (President)
  • Gerald Pollet (Executive Director and Treasurer)

People named in this filing

  • Amber Waldref (President)
  • Helen Wheatley PhD (VicePresident)
  • Sandy Polishuk (Director officer)

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

Education and public involvement to protect public and environment for toxic and nuclear waste cleanup in the Northwest focusing on risks from the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Promote openness in government. Support education and training of college, law and public health students.

What it reported doing in 2025

Provide training and supervision for tribal and environmental law, graduate public health and undergraduate students interested in learning about, or pursuing careers in, environmental and public health programs relating to exposure and cleanup of Hanford and other contaminated sites, risk assessment and preventing exposures, especially for tribal members. Includes research and program development as well as providing staff time working with students, and travel with students to visit Hanford and meet with Tribal and other officials. Our research includes extensive review of records obtained through use of public records access laws. Organization program includes training and advocacy for open government in Washington and student skill training and advocacy.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 99
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 23
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 98.3%; rating input score 98

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -15.7%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.14; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 87.6%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -4.6% per year; rating input score 0; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -20.3% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 98.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $73K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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.

  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.