Pacific Northwest Queer Arts Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
880567026
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Seattle, WA, USA
Phone
2069195820
Rating
91
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$40,288
Expenses
$142,783
Assets
$497
Liabilities
$254,852

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MURF HALL (VICE PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • JOEY BURGESS (EXECUTIVE DIR.)
  • MURF HALL (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • NATALIE MILLER (SECRETARY/TREAS)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

We are a nonprofit company of artists and performers from communities overlooked in mainstream society. Pnwqaf supports queer artists hosted through the annual queer/pride festival we help to sponsor. Our collective places an emphasis on elevating those traditionally left out of mainstream culture, sharing knowledge to increase equitable opportunities for queer artists. Pnwqaf builds community by creating a welcoming space for everyone in the lgbtqia+ and qtbipoc spectrum to perform and be paid well to do so. We provide management skills training to collective members, increasing the capacity of queer people to thrive fiscally and responsibly as contract works and artists. In addition, pnwqaf supports queer artists hosted throughout queer/pride festivities. The organization allows sponsorship support to be paid to contract performers that adds festival rate pay to support year long sustainment of working queer or spectrum artists.

What it reported doing in 2024

We hosted over 10,000 lgbtq+ and ally patrons over three days of pride weekend in seattle, wa. The organization allows sponsorship support to be paid out directly to contract performers that adds festival rate pay to support year long sustainment of working queer and spectrum artists. Through donations we received, we were able to pay queer artists that participated in the festivals

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 74% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 97
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 10
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 91.5%; rating input score 92

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: -254.4%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 512.78; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 32% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -54.2% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -145.7% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 91.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $131K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.