Immigrant Guide

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
833303032
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Seattle, WA, USA
Rating
70
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Services N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$199,500
Expenses
$193,548
Assets
$133,041

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MPIIMA MUGAMBE (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • MONICA MURILO (SECRETARY)
  • MUHAMMED CEESAY (BOARD MEMBER)
  • ALEX SEMWANGA (TREASURER)

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

Our mission is to build a stronger independent and more resilient community of immigrants and refugees by celebrating culture and heritage and providing access to resources.

What it reported doing in 2025

Supported Immigrant Guides community power-building work including launching the Community Advocacy and Leadership Academy CALA leadership development civic engagement and policy advocacy work aside from increased organizational capacity. Activities: Launched an intensive recruitment of fellows for 3 months. Developed program curriculum to train fellows from low-income immigrant refugee and BIPOC emerging leaders trained for civic leadership and participation. Researched and developed a database of city county and statewide boards and commissions Recruited and paid program staff Conducted workshops on systems change community organizing civic engagement policy advocacy and leadership development. Increased organizational capacity to sustain long-term community power-building efforts Conducted outreach and relationship-building with African and BIPOC immigrant refugee and asylum-seeking communities. Recruited participants into the CALA programs.

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

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: 47
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 40
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 46.8%; rating input score 47
  • Program expense ratio: 48.3%; rating input score 48

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: 3%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.69; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 20.4% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 27.5% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 46.8% of revenue deployed · 48.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $93K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2019 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 47/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 48/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.