Nw Share
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 911918588
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2010
- Location
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Phone
- 4046219257
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Foundations
- Affiliation
- Hinduism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,351,251
- Expenses
- $2,316,269
- Assets
- $2,242,300
- Liabilities
- $2,566
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Harry Terhanian (President)
- Viji Raman (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Harry Terhanian (President)
- Ramesh Yerramsetti (Treasurer)
- Viji Raman (Vice President)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Northwest Share provides services in the areas of Healthvegetarian food Artsdan ces and Drama Relationshipsmentoring & finally formal education. As a charity we have helped many people with free food. My Sweet Lord Restaurant for 13 years & through free burrito distribution on the streets. As a formal school we are tak ing care of educating students regardless of their ability to pay. We also procure d a food truck to give out free food from 2015 for distribution food serving many p arts of Seattle. Finally we also give animal shelter & organic farming showcase Vedic museum.
What it reported doing in 2024
The Health Part of Northwest SHARE offers free vegetarian food in Seattles University District through a food truck. The truck serves 200 hot meals three times a week to those in need including the unemployed homeless individuals and students. Northwest SHARE aims to establish a homeless village in the Seattle area addressing the high homelessness rates caused by rising rents and evictions. For more information visit https: www.nwshare.org free-food-truck .
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 78% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 55
- Transparency & Controls: 88
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 61.5%; rating input score 62
- Program expense ratio: 62.5%; rating input score 62
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 1.5%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.97; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.2% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 61.5% of revenue deployed · 62.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 35 of 43 current checks pass · 8 findings to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX Advertising column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX GrantsToDomesticOrgs column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX InformationTechnology column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX Insurance column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX OfficeExpenses column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX Travel column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.