Northeast Washington Education Council
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 912148164
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Spokane, WA, USA
- Phone
- 5097893800
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $47,409
- Expenses
- $61,249
- Assets
- $131,580
- 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
- BUFFY NUSTAD (PRESIDENT)
- KATHY BUMGARNER (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- BUFFY NUSTAD (PRESIDENT)
- JANA JARAYSI (SEC/TREASURER)
- KATHY BUMGARNER (VICE PRESIDENT)
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
To aid in providing cooperative services to k12 schools. Newec is affiliated with northeast Washington educational service district (newesd) 101, a political subdivision of the Washington state government. Newec's goal is to advance the educational and public service mission of newesd 101. Newec exists to receive, manage and distribute income and gifts for the benefit of the districts, schools and students that newesd 101 serves.
What it reported doing in 2025
The eastern Washington regional science & engineering fair (ewrsef) is an annual science and engineering competition for 6th - 12th grade students in eastern Washington. The program encourages and rewards innovative student research and provides professional scientists and engineers the chance to interact with some of the best & brightest students. The program gives students a platform to share their projects and learn about stem related issues and careers. Students work on their projects and compete at the regional science & engineering fair. The winners move on to state, and those winners move on to the international fair. Participation in the science fairs stimulates student's interest in science & technology while simultaneously promoting the development of communication, decision making, evaluation of alternative solutions and critical thinking.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 86% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 99.3%; rating input score 99
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -29.2%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.15; rating input score 67; 67th 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: -6.5% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.6% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 99.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $61K 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: 16 filing years from 2010 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.