Nw Medical Volunteers
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 821676073
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2066502255
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- First Aid
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $175,999
- Expenses
- $64,536
- Assets
- $196,895
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CRAIG MURAKAMI (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- CRAIG MURAKAMI (PRESIDENT)
- KATHLEEN SIE (VICE PRESIDE)
- SAM MOST (SECRETARY)
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 provide medical training and assistance to international medical centers in areas of need. Our focus is to help develop missions that will facilitate a mutual educational and learning experience between northwest medical volunteers and the international physicians and staff involved with these missions. The ultimate goal is to create a mutual learning experience for all parties involved that will lead to long-lasting improvements in global healthcare in the areas of plastic and reconstructive surgery.
What it reported doing in 2025
To provide medical training and assistance to international medical centers in areas of need. Our focus is to help develop missions that will facilitate a mutual educational and learning experience between northwest medical volunteers and the international physicians and staff involved with these missions. The ultimate goal is to create a mutual learning experience for all parties involved that will lead to long-lasting improvements in global healthcare in the areas of plastic and reconstructive surgery. In 2025, the organization worked with smile cambodia and the standish foundation to perform 52 operations and screen over 150 patients. We also provided hands-on training to the plastic surgery students and medical staff.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 78
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 36.7%; rating input score 37
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 63.3%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.05; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 36.7% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $65K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 37/100.