NineLine Veteran Services
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 813155293
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Fife, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2539227225
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,156,113
- Expenses
- $2,037,228
- Assets
- $216,665
- Liabilities
- $80,917
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jesse McAdam (Vice President)
- Shawn Durnen (President & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Shawn Durnen (President & CEO): $183,895 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The purpose of Nine9line Veteran Services is to assist and support our Active Duty, National Guard, Reservist, Veterans, all who have served in the Armed Forces, their family member, and Gold Star Families.
What it reported doing in 2025
The NineLine Programs include Housing, Quick Response, Route Step and Business & Employment. The Housing Program is a shared housing model that aims to provide housing solutions for military personnel and veterans. QRF Quick Response Force serves as early suicide prevention and intervention through outreach, community engagement, case management and peer support. Route Step Outdoors Program is a holistic initiative aimed at fostering a deeper connection with nature, promoting physical activity and enhancing mental well-being through eco-therapy practices. Business & Employment program is a compreshensive initiative focused on creating on-site job opportunities in one of our several fulfillment warehouse locations for at-risk military personnel, veterans, and their families.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 65
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.3%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 94.6%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: $60.17 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- 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: 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: 5.5%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.11; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.37; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 32.5% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 30.9% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.1% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89.3% of revenue deployed · 94.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $184K · 5 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 44/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 36/100.