Northwest Center

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
910786790
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
SeaTac, WA, US
Phone
(206) 285-9140
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Vocational Rehabilitation

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$28,888,984
Expenses
$31,112,693
Assets
$27,526,874
Liabilities
$27,578,770

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

31 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • EUGENE F BOES (PRESIDENT AND CEO)
  • MICHAEL THOMAS SCALZO (SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, OPERATIONS)
  • BRAD SPIKES (VICE PRESIDENT, MARKETING)

Highest reported compensation

  • THERESE CONNOR (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $438,493 total reported compensation
  • EUGENE F BOES (PRESIDENT AND CEO): $387,557 total reported compensation
  • ELLIS VANCE PERRY III (SENIOR VP OF OP. AMAZON (THRU 9/25)): $352,667 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

A nonprofit building a disability-inclusive world for schools, businesses, and people, from cradle through career.

What it reported doing in 2025

Northwest center kids provides educational and therapeutic services for children from birth to 12 years old. Our community-based early supports program offers speech, motor, sensory, and language therapy in the home and community. Additionally, we have one school located in seattle, that employs an individualized education model. The center serves infants to 12 years of age in classrooms and after school programs. Northwest center kids provides early supports services for approximately 1271 children a year and educates over 180 children in our school. Grant expenses are scholarships given. Nwc impact provides training and support for early learning educators, school districts, administrators and private education programs to help them adopt inclusive practices. Nwc employment transformation collective supports businesses to remove workplace barriers to accessibility.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 83% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

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 expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 76
  • Transparency & Controls: 85
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 16
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 84.9%; rating input score 85
  • Program expense ratio: 80.4%; rating input score 80
  • Fundraising efficiency: $6.07 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 98.3%; rating input score 98; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: -7.7%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.88; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 1; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 8.2%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -5.4% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -3.4% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 4 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 84.9% of revenue deployed · 80.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $25M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $438K · 31 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $800K reported
  • Consistency: 39 of 40 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
  • 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 18/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 34/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.