Medic One Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
916183158
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2020
Location
Bellevue, WA, USA
Phone
4256252137
Rating
83
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$3,875,776
Expenses
$4,673,635
Assets
$11,700,283
Liabilities
$961,641

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

Leadership & pay

18 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CRAIG PETERSON (PRESIDENT)
  • BRIAN WEBSTER (FORMER PRESIDENT)
  • KIMBERLY DUNCAN MARTIN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • KIMBERLY DUNCAN MARTIN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $250,655 total reported compensation
  • SARA OSHIKAWA-CLAY (DIRECTOR OF PHILANTHROPY): $200,675 total reported compensation
  • KATHLEEN DEVEGA (ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF PHILANTHROPY): $130,072 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Medic one foundation saves lives by improving pre-hospital emergency care. Since 1974, we have invested $37 million in paramedic training, research to improve patient outcomes, equipment to help fire departments save more lives, emt scholarships, special projects to improve pre-hospital emergency care, and cpr/first aid training for citizen responders. We rely solely on contributions to accomplish our lifesaving mission.

What it reported doing in 2025

Additional program support - the foundation advanced several initiatives to strengthen the region's emergency medical response. It awarded 13 emt scholarships, donated 13 automated external defibrillators (aeds) to organizations throughout the northwest, and promoted the pulsepoint mobile app to increase bystander cpr and aed response to sudden cardiac arrest. The foundation also supported the Washington state cares registry, resuscitation academy, uw ems program, and training equipment to 11 local fire departments. These efforts reflect the foundation's comprehensive approach to improving pre-hospital emergency care.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 90% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 46% for direct work, and 54% for grants.
  • 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: 81
  • Transparency & Controls: 81
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 31
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 98%; rating input score 98
  • Program expense ratio: 75.4%; rating input score 75
  • Fundraising efficiency: $5.63 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 94.7%; rating input score 95; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 97.1%; rating input score 97; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • 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: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • 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: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -20.6%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.5; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 12.4%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 12% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9.9% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 98% of revenue deployed · 75.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $3.5M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $251K · 18 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $324K reported
  • Consistency: 32 of 33 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 14 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 11 filed related-organization links
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 17/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 27/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 52/100.