Lynden Communitysenior Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 272756341
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Lynden, WA, USA
- Phone
- 3603542921
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Service Clubs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $413,188
- Expenses
- $402,729
- Assets
- $851,234
- Liabilities
- $6,686
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GWEN WOHLRAB (PRESIDENT)
- JOSEPH BRANION (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JENNIFER LAUTENBACH (FORMER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- EVAN SAMSILL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- JENNIFER LAUTENBACH (FORMER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $56,348 total reported compensation
- EVAN SAMSILL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $14,693 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our first mission is to maintain independence and quality of life for mature adults in lynden community by providing nutritional support through the congregate and home delivered hot meal program, and opportunities to stay physically, mentally, and socially active, and facilitating cost saving and preventative wellness interventions to avoid the need for higher care sooner than necessary. Our second mission is to engage with the community and provide a space for community meetings, gatherings, and opportunites for social engagements for all ages. This maintains a community that is friendly and welcoming to each other and visitors.
What it reported doing in 2024
The lynden community senior center offers a wide range of activities, classes and services particularly for seniors to encourage physically and emotionally healthy lifestyles. In addition, they provide activities for gathering and social engaements to the community and visitors to foster the center as a friendly and welcoming place.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.5%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 83.8%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $13.12 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 47; 47th 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: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 2.5%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.11; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 17.6%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.5% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 82.5% of revenue deployed · 83.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $338K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $56K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 26 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 47/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 45/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.