Martial Arts in the Public Interest

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
912093071
IRS 990 coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Seattle, WA, USA
Phone
2063224799
Rating
87
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Educational Services and Schools - Other

Reported finances

Revenue
$270,045
Expenses
$288,858
Assets
$206,357
Liabilities
$38,665

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

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Alison McCaffree (Executive Director)
  • Karri Meleo (President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Alison McCaffree (Executive Director): $15,500 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Martial Arts in the Public Interest dba Quantum Martial Arts Seattle and Quantum Martial Arts Tacoma has a mission to reveal personal strengths and interconnect diverse communities through the joyful pursuit of Quantum Martial Arts. Located in Seattle and Tacoma WA, we operate two community martial arts dojos. We bring people together to learn a unique style of martial arts in a welcoming, non-competitive environment. Our style focuses on empowerment, practical self-defense, and revealing personal strength. The style is the creation of Master Rachael Evans, who has been exploring and expanding her martial arts for over 40 years. We provide an intense, fun exercise, and Quantum is more than just a workout. Quantum's outreach programs change the lives of children and adults in various places in Washington. In 2025, we built out and opened Quantum Tacoma.

What it reported doing in 2025

SELF DEFENSE: Quantum provides Empowerment Self Defense classes for free to the public and as a fee for service to companies and organizations. In 2025, we delivered both our Empowerment Self Defense 101 workshop and our 3 part self defense workshop series. This series includes advance empowerment techniques, defenses and escapes from the ground, and an introduction to anti-oppression skills. We delivered 4 basic classes and 1 series as a public service. We delivered 3 fee for services classes to local business and nonprofits include two new classes in safety training and balance and falling safely. General operating funds, volunteer time, and donated travel expenses support our self defense programs.

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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 93
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 25
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 96.3%; rating input score 96
  • Program expense ratio: 90%; rating input score 90
  • Fundraising efficiency: $199.35 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 90; 90th 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; 64th 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: -7%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.71; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.19; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 5.4%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 19.9% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 17.7% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 96.3% of revenue deployed · 90% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $260K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $16K · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 43 of 43 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 22/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 30/100.