Nashi Immigrants Health Board

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
874357900
IRS 990 coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023
Location
Lake Forest Park, WA, USA
Phone
2066012908
Rating
73
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Public Health Program (Includes General Health and Wellness Promotion Services)

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$533,713
Expenses
$560,500
Assets
$17,123
Liabilities
$24,580

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Tamara Cyhan-Cunitz (President, Executive Director, Program Director, & Counselor)
  • Olga Okhapkina (Vice-President from July 2025, Peer Counselor, Health Navigator)

Highest reported compensation

  • Tamara Cyhan-Cunitz (President, Executive Director, Program Director, & Counselor): $162,448 total reported compensation
  • Svitlana Myrna (Treasurer to June 2025, Financial Administrator, Program Manager, and Counselor): $117,234 total reported compensation
  • Yuliia Tsipino (Treasurer from July 2025, Grants Finance Administrator): $14,155 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

We partner with Ukrainians and advocate through community engagement, empowerment, and connection to resources. We seek to understand, support, and empower our community and provide for a healthy future for "Nashi" (our community) through a lens of health equity and social justice. Our organization is led by nurses, doctors, and community health workers who live in the community.

What it reported doing in 2025

Nashi Immigrants Health Board provides culturally responsive health, wellness, and integration services for Ukrainian and Russian-speaking immigrant and refugee communities in Washington State. Through strong partnerships with public health agencies, local organizations, and community leaders, Nashi implements programs that increase access to health information, mental health support, and healthcare navigation services in culturally and linguistically appropriate ways. Our services are organized into three primary areas: 1. Public Health Outreach and Education: This program focuses on collaboration with government agencies and public health departments to provide evidence-based, accurate, and culturally tailored health education. Materials and events are conducted in Ukrainian and Russian, ensuring accessibility for refugee and immigrant community members. This year we continued to translate materials, provide outreach events, develop health education materials and added our debut of a robust social media health education and outreach campaign via SM channels for our community . 2. Refugee Mental Health Services This program provides trauma-informed, peer-based, and culturally grounded support for Ukrainian refugees who arrived in the United States between February 2022 and September 2024. We are in year 3 of Refugee Mental Health Service provision and continue to provide all described services with additional team members added. . 3. Health and Healthcare Navigation This newly launched program assists refugees and immigrants in navigating complex healthcare systems and coordinating medical and behavioral health care. The program provided one-on-one case management for 100-200 individuals with high-need medical or social circumstances.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 94% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
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.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 94
  • Transparency & Controls: 79
  • Accountability: 38
  • Sustainability: 10
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 94.9%; rating input score 95
  • Program expense ratio: 90.3%; rating input score 90
  • Fundraising efficiency: $2,242.49 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Pass
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Pass
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 33.3%; rating input score 33; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -5%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.03; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.44; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 53.5%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 25.8% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 51.7% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -55.3% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 94.9% of revenue deployed · 90.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 1 of 3 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $506K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $162K · 5 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $280K reported
  • Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 33/100.
  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.