Multifaith Works
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 911413378
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2009
- Forms available
- Form 990 2009
- Location
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2063241520
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- AIDS
- Affiliation
- Interfaith
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,290,533
- Expenses
- $1,338,301
- Assets
- $1,023,132
- Liabilities
- $653,526
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2009. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2009. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Multifaith Works is a non-profit, non-denominational organization that provides housing and supportive services to people living with AIDS or other life-threatening illnesses, and community education on issues of human diversity. Four programs provide these life-changing services: - transitional housing helps homeless persons living with hiv/aids become self-sufficient and ready for permanent housing. - careteams help persons living with hiv/aids by providing errand assistance and social support. - shanti provides one-to-one non-judgmental, non-directive listening to persons living with grief. - shift provides peer support and sober social opportunities to persons in the lgbtq recovery community.
What it reported doing in 2009
Shift-prn (samhsa) - offer peer-based programs to help people in substance abuse recovery. this is accomplished through support groups and other group and peer-based counseling activities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 76% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 60th 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: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.7%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.76; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.64; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.9%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $72K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 34/100.