Pacific Northwest Soundwave
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 992740902
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Spokane, WA, USA
- Phone
- 0000000000
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Music
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $155,086
- Expenses
- $45,433
- Assets
- $235,597
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Tao Sun (President)
People named in this filing
- Tao Sun (President)
- Wei Wei (Director)
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
Advocate for and provide support to special-needs children fostering a more inclusive and compassionate community and advance the education health welfare and social inclusion of children and seniors through direct charitable programs The organization provides inclusive youth physical activity and sports programs designed to support children with ADHD developmental differences and other special needs promoting physical health social development emotional well-being and educational enrichment in a safe and supportive environment
What it reported doing in 2025
Provided advocacy and support for deaf and hard-of-hearing children through public music performances and community-based outreach activities The organization engaged in programs supporting accessibility inclusion and educational enrichment including collaboration and support efforts with local and international deaf education communities
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 program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 42
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 90
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 22%; rating input score 22
- Program expense ratio: 75.1%; rating input score 75
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: 70.7%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.19; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 71.2% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 60.7% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 22% of revenue deployed · 75.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $34K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 22/100.