Our Place Community Outreach
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 911384287
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Spokane, WA, USA
- Phone
- 5093267267
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,379,047
- Expenses
- $3,392,038
- Assets
- $1,386,512
- Liabilities
- $5,190
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TRACIE SWANSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- KELLY MATHEWS (PRESIDENT)
- DANIEL GEITER (PRESIDENT-ELECT)
Highest reported compensation
- TRACIE SWANSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $66,194 total reported compensation
- KATHARINE HARTSELL (DIRECTOR): $50,527 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our place community outreach respectfully welcomes our spokane neighbors by providing basic needs and services, bringing hope for an improved future. We provide free emergency resources including food, clothing, hygiene products, household necessities, laundry services, utility assistance, and bus passes.
What it reported doing in 2024
Our personal hygiene center distributed 178,528 personal care products including, toilet paper, feminine hygiene products, toothbrushes, toothpaste, deodorant, shampoo, conditioner, laundry soap, combs, bar soap, hand sanitizer, baby wipes, adult diapers, layettes and makeup. We invite one household at a time into our foyer to shop our table for fun hair and makeup items while a volunteer fills their order of basic hygiene items. Through partnerships and your independent donations, we provide basic hygiene items to our neighbors in need from all over spokane! Also included in our hygiene center is our laundry center where 935 loads of laundry were done last year. Our laundry center offers six washing machines and six dryers, available for use free of charge on a first-come, first-serve basis. Our place provides detergents and invites households of 1-2 folks to do up to two loads a week, and households of three+ to do up to four loads a week. Our laundry center is open three days a week.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 96% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 86
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.2%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 90.8%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: $1,850.56 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 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 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.4%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.41; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.4%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 22% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.9% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91.2% of revenue deployed · 90.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $3.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $66K · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.