Northwest Association for Blind Athletes
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 260244283
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2012, Form 990-N 2010
- Location
- Vancouver, WA, USA
- Phone
- 3604487254
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Blind/Visually Impaired Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,027,913
- Expenses
- $2,705,189
- Assets
- $2,126,013
- Liabilities
- $402,859
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- WILLIAM BILLY HENRY (FOUNDER & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- WILLIAM BILLY HENRY (FOUNDER & CEO): $124,128 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide life-changing opportunities through sports and physical activity to individuals who are blind and visually impaired.
What it reported doing in 2024
Sports outreach and camp sparkour sports outreach program creates inclusive sports opportunities for children, youth, adults, and military veterans who are blind or visually impaired, introducing them to adaptive physical activities. Participants engage in a wide range of sports, including goalball, judo, beep baseball, tandem cycling, and kayaking. For many of the 56,000+ school-age children who are blind in the united states, access to physical activity is rare, making this program vital in developing physical strength, resilience, and confidence.nwaba's residential camp spark provides immersive camp experiences on university campuses or campgrounds for youth ages 8-15. In fy24-25, the program served 89 campers through seven sessions and thousands of direct service hours, with participation increasing despite a session cancellation due to severe weather. By fostering friendships, resilience, and empowerment, nwaba's sports outreach and camp spark programs create pathways for lifelong health, independence, and social success.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.9%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 77.1%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.3 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- 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: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.7%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.79; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.19; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.6%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 18.2% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 19.2% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.9% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 67.9% of revenue deployed · 77.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 19 of 19 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $2.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $124K · 17 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 33 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 31/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.