Northwest Sarcoma Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 911717600
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Phone
- 5038036735
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $334,731
- Expenses
- $360,455
- Assets
- $675,397
- Liabilities
- $54,520
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MICHAEL LILLIE (PRESIDENT)
- JO MCNEAL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- JO MCNEAL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $101,440 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We provide hope, education and support to sarcoma patients and their families in the pacific northwest while investing in research to improve cure rates for sarcomas.
What it reported doing in 2024
Outreach programs are patient activities intended to provide support, social and/or educational opportunities. Activities include casual chats for patients, survivors and caregivers. The foundation makes regular contact with sarcoma patients through the help$ programs, inviting them to our groups and other programming. The foundation organizes and sponsors sarcoma journal club meetings attended by sarcoma physicians and researchers in which latest treatments or research are discussed. Sarcoma physicians provide educational opportunities to anyone interested in ongoing research around various sarcomas, through researcher update nights. Patient education nights are led by topic experts to support patients and their families during different parts of their cancer journey. Community fun events are for sarcoma patients, survivors and caregivers to enjoy a fun activity while meeting others in the sarcoma community. Dragonslayer days provide a day of activities in local hospitals for pediatric patients and their families.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 91% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 63% for direct work, and 37% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 60
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.5%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 59.6%; rating input score 60
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.47 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -7.7%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.87; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 28.1%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 67.5% of revenue deployed · 59.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $215K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $101K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.