Nob Hill Water Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 910490710
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Yakima, WA, USA
- Phone
- 5099660272
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,766,758
- Expenses
- $6,522,590
- Assets
- $37,115,484
- Liabilities
- $6,542,458
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MIKE KOKENGE (PRESIDENT)
- SHELLEY MARQUETT (VICE-PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ZELLA WEST (MANAGER THROUGH MARCH 2026): $148,911 total reported compensation
- DAVID ENGLAND (ASSISTANT MANAGER): $134,107 total reported compensation
- CRYSTAL MCPHERSON (MANAGER/ACCOUNTING MANAGER): $123,505 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 mission of nob hill water association is to serve its members with a safe and reliable drinking water supply in the most economical manner possible, and to make that service available to our expanding area.
What it reported doing in 2025
Operation and maintenance of potable water and irrigation systems.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 97% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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: 90
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 60
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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -13.1%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.69; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.5%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $149K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 12 of 12 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 38/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.