North West Indian Head Start Coalition
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 510656372
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Tenino, WA, USA
- Phone
- 3607891366
- Rating
- 43
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $91,070
- Expenses
- $88,358
- Assets
- $93,811
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- VIOLA WOOD (PRESIDENT)
- MARY ELLEN FRITZ (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- VIOLA WOOD (PRESIDENT)
- MARY ELLEN FRITZ (VICE PRESIDENT)
- NANCY MARTIN (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Nwihsc operates a yearly convention focusing on head start in tribal communities.
What it reported doing in 2025
2026 convention was held in spokane wa on aug 4th-7th and served 194 attendees
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 61% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 10
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 9.7%; rating input score 10
- Program expense ratio: 10%; rating input score 10
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.06; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -52.2% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 9.7% of revenue deployed · 10% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $9K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 10/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.