Mt Baker Planned Parenthood
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 910846274
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Bellingham, WA, USA
- Phone
- 3607349007
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Planning Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,656,078
- Expenses
- $19,596,146
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LINDA MCCARTHY (CEO)
- KAREN OLSTAD (PRESIDENT)
- DIANA BOB (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- LINDA MCCARTHY (CEO): $91,814 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Mt. Baker planned parenthood's mission is to ensure every individual has the knowledge, opportunity, and freedom to advance their sexual and reproductive health.
What it reported doing in 2024
Community relations: the community relations department provides information, support, and training that helps mt. Baker planned parenthood supporters influence public policy and the legislative process. Mbpp works with local, state, and national officials and through issue advocacy and grassroots organizing to make sure that sexual and reproductive health care is recognized as healthcare; improve access to family planning services; improve the availability and accuracy of sex education in public schools; keep abortion safe and legal; and reduce teen pregnancy rates. The program fulfills this work in three specific areas:(continued in schedule o)(1) media/public relations: the goal of the program is to increase understanding of sexual and reproductive health, increase awareness of threats to accessing sexual and reproductive health, and to increase the support for sexual and reproductive health in the area mbpp serves. To do this, mbpp will use traditional media strategies like press releases, letters to the editor, and media advisories. Mbpp will also use a variety of social media platforms and other non-traditional ways to reach people and get the message out.(2) activists/volunteers: the program seeks to foster an active relationship with its volunteers and community activists as well as to expand the database. Mbpp has 81 active volunteers.(3) legislative/policy: mbpp maintains an active relationship with local, state, and federal elected officials. The community relations department is responsible for staying informed of and disseminating information about relevant state and national policy. The program encourages activists to connect with their local, state, and federal elected officials.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 92% of its reported program spending out as grants.
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 revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 10
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 97.5%; rating input score 98
- Fundraising efficiency: $26.63 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd 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: 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: -637.8%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.5%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.9% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.9% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 97.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $19.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $92K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.