Npower Northwest
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 200331529
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2011
- Forms available
- Form 990 2011
- Location
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2062868880
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Nonprofit Management
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,516,862
- Expenses
- $1,896,908
- Assets
- $293,198
- Liabilities
- $210,551
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2011. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2011. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Npower northwest is where savvy nonprofits turn for technology. At npower, we're guided by the belief that technology can transform the nonprofit sector and play a pivotal role in creating the greater good. Our vision is a thriving community with high (continued on sch o) performing nonprofits, and we are passionate about catalyzing innovation and driving adoption of technology solutions to strengthen the nonprofit sector. We uniquely serve the sector by providing expertise on both technology and nonprofit best practices.
What it reported doing in 2011
Consulting program - managed services: during 2011, npower served 85 managed services clients with ongoing support for their internal networks and computers. The goal is to ensure stable and secure technology infrastructure. In addition, the consulting team assisted 38 nonprofit agencies with projects such as technology assessments, network upgrades, office moves, and ad-hoc support needs. Clients benefited from 5,697 network consulting service hours during 2011.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 70% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 11
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 60th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -25.1%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.15; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.72; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.1%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $111K · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Whistleblower policy not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 34/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.