IAF Northwest
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 911499816
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2065885016
- Rating
- 51
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Rural Economic Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $317,464
- Expenses
- $282,142
- Assets
- $154,978
- Liabilities
- $117,817
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Dr Luis Manriquez (President)
- Laure Pengelly Drake (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Dr Luis Manriquez (President)
- Laure Pengelly Drake (Vice President)
- Mary Lou Johnson (Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
In 2024, IAF Pacific continued its work of connecting and strengthening broad-based alliances throughout the Pacific region.Through its Building Partnerships for Collaborative Action initiativethe organization supported Indigenous and non-Indigenous institutions to work together for justice and reconciliation.Series were held in Washington, Oregon, Montana as well as British Colombia, with over 250 participants completing the five-session, ten-hour program during the year.Collaborative outcomes included: IAF Pacific also provided regional coordination and mentoring for affiliated alliances addressing issues such as access to healthcare, cost of living pressures such as energy, health care and affordable housing, as well as disaster resilience.
What it reported doing in 2024
IAF Pacific (legally IAF Northwest) is a regional network of broad-based community alliances spanning the Pacific Northwest of the United States, primarily in Washington state with relationships in Canada, Australia, and Aotearoa New Zealand. Its mission is to build the capacity of everyday people to act together across lines of difference for the common good.We train civic and faith leaders, strengthen local institutions, and develop professional organizers who help communities address systemic challengessuch as health inequity, economic injustice, and the legacies of colonizationthrough collective action and democratic participationProgram Service Accomplishments: Leadership Development & Capacity BuildingThe organizations leadership-formation work remained central in 2024.IAF Pacific conducted multiple 12, 24-hour and 5-day leadership institutesboth residential and onlineserving leaders from faith, labor, community, environmental, and Indigenous organizations primarily in the Pacific Northwest, but also supporting work in Canada, Australia and New Zealand.Participants learned the principles and practices of broad-based community organizing: relational leadership, power analysis, negotiation, and strategic action.Professional organizers received intensive formation through regional Organizers Academy tracks and weekly mentoring.________________________________________Program Service Accomplishments: Health Equity OrganizingContinuing its Health Equity Organizing Initiatives, IAF Pacific trained leaders in the health sector to integrate organizing methodologies into patient-care and public-health practice.This included monthly sessions with family-medicine residency programs, coursework with university health-sciences students, and weekly mentoring for organizers in community clinics.These initiatives aim to move practitioners and patients from passive service relationships toward active participation in shaping the social determinants of health.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 96% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
MIXED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 55
- Accountability: 24
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.1%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 80%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $0.8 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.1%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.55; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.76; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.3% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 71.1% of revenue deployed · 80% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 13 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $282K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 5/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.