Manzanita House

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
873857560
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Spokane, WA, USA
Phone
5092423324
Rating
68
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Alliance/Advocacy Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,168,566
Expenses
$1,212,601
Assets
$592,636
Liabilities
$13,118

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Madison Greenhall (President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Samuel Smith (Director): $78,000 total reported compensation
  • Patricia Castaneda (Executive Dir.): $76,213 total reported compensation
  • Brielle Balazs (Director): $61,136 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To embrace, equip, and empower immigrants through access to culturally informed essential services, and facilitate covnnections to grow deeper roots and thrive in Spokane.

What it reported doing in 2024

Immigrant Legal Aid: Manzanita House Immigrant Legal Aid provides Naturalization Services, Adjustment of Status, Consular Processing, Employment authorization, Family petitions, Temporary Protected Status, T and U visas, VAWA petitions, Linit4ed removal defense, and Special Immigrant Juvenile Status providing low-cost, accessible legal services. Heritage Language Classes: Manzanita Houses Language Program 8-week pilot program in the Summer of 2022 for youth Arabic Language Classes. Heritage Speakers every quarter at the Northeast Community Center. This program aims to foster connections in the immigrant community of Spokane while educating the youth in their heritage language. Classes offered are Arabic, Farsi and Marshallese/Ebon.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 96% 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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 58
  • Transparency & Controls: 86
  • Accountability: 63
  • Sustainability: 28
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 66.4%; rating input score 66
  • Program expense ratio: 64%; rating input score 64
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 12th 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: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -3.8%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.49; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 17.8%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 82.5% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 47.6% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 30.9% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 66.4% of revenue deployed · 64% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $776K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $78K · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 27 of 28 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • 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: Governance controls: 6 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 26/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.