Mt Baker Rotary Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 911721997
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Lynden, WA, USA
- Phone
- 3603545545
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $425,282
- Expenses
- $369,417
- Assets
- $895,566
- Liabilities
- $136,671
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KEVIN PAWLOWSKI (PRESIDENT)
- KLAYTON TJOELKER (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- KEVIN PAWLOWSKI (PRESIDENT)
- KLAYTON TJOELKER (VICE PRESIDENT)
- NATHAN ZYLSTRA (SECRETARY)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The foundation focuses on supporting the local community and international humanitarian projects with other rotary host clubs.
What it reported doing in 2024
This year the foundation contributed a grant ($168,500) to a local charity that focuses on transformational faith-based mentorship for men released from incarceration. The grant was for the construction of a resource center to provide a wide range of services including a group training area for such things as addiction and recovery training, anger management, and other support programs. Also, a computer skill learning area, and wellness center for activities like exercise, counseling, and relaxation.there was a grant ($15,000) to a local high school to make improvements to their vocational/agricultural building.also, a grant ($7,000) to christian hope association to help make improvements to their building. They provide a christ-inspired housing program for traumatized mothers and their children, fostering healing and stability that lasts.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 71% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 97% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 73
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 99.5%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 96.4%; rating input score 96; 56th 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: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 13.1%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.42; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87% of revenue deployed · 99.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $368K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 24 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and grants
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 6 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 7 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.