Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 911084551
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2019, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Portland, OR, USA
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Computer Science
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $101,139
- Expenses
- $152,905
- Assets
- $399,956
- Liabilities
- $1,315
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PHILIP LEW (President&Treas)
People named in this filing
- PHILIP LEW (President&Treas)
- MOSS DRAKE (VP & Prog Chair)
- JOHN CVETKO (Treasurer)
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
Education
What it reported doing in 2025
PNSQC is a non-profit organization that fosters, enables, and drives knowledge exchange amongst professionals to produce higher quality software and processes via: Annual conference with over 500 participants 10 monthly public meetups 30 newsletters to a mailing list of over 3400 contacts 10 blog posts per year Extended interactions with over 50 speakers
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 80.1%; rating input score 80
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -51.2%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.62; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.6% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 80.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $122K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- 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 2/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.