Parish Collective

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
461044900
IRS 990 coverage
2019–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2018, Form 990-T 2020, Form 990-N 2015
Location
Spokane, WA, USA
Phone
2063535954
Rating
72
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Christianity
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$485,598
Expenses
$485,176
Assets
$316,345
Liabilities
$218,482

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Jonathan Brooks (President)
  • Timothy Sorrens (Executive Director)

Highest reported compensation

  • Timothy Sorrens (Executive Director): $83,333 total reported compensation
  • Majora Carter (Board member): $1,000 total reported compensation
  • Michael Mata (Secretary): $1,000 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Parish Collective supports and networks congregations and Christian organizations that are engaging in the holistic renewal of their neighborhoods through the use of storytelling, content creation, learning communities, and conferences.

What it reported doing in 2024

In 2024, Parish Collective continued advancing its mission to connect people to be the Church in their neighborhoods. Through our national learning communities, gatherings, and storytelling initiatives, we helped congregations across the country rediscover their calling to join God's renewing work right where they live.Key Achievements Through the Grounded Faith Initiative, a partnership with Whitworth University's Office of Church Engagement, we supported four active city cohorts--Seattle, Spokane, San Diego, and Chicago--representing 19 congregations, 71 ministry leaders, and 211 young adults. These cohorts gathered for local immersions that combined theological reflection, neighborhood walks, storytelling, and shared practices of discernment to explore how to join God's dreams in their places. Participants launched eight new "Seeds" projects--grassroots, neighborhood-level experiments in belonging, formation, and faithful innovation. Beyond these cohorts, Parish Collective convened national and regional gatherings such as Cultivate San Diego and Inhabit 2024, bringing together hundreds of leaders to celebrate an catalyze neighborhood-rooted ministry and collaborative renewal. Our monthly virtual gatherings--Fellowship Hall and Coffee Break Conversations--created consistent rhythms of connection for over 50 congregations nationwide, fostering encouragement, peer learning, and relational support. Parish Collective continued to play a key convening role in broader networks including the Thriving Neighborhoods Network (20 collaborating organizations) and the Flourishing Neighborhoods Group (93 collaborators), advancing the field of place-based faith and community renewal. Our storytelling initiatives shared over 25 stories of neighborhood-rooted faith and renewal, reaching an audience of more than 2,500 readers each month and amplifying the voices of everyday neighbors, leaders, and congregations embodying hope in their local contexts.Impact SummaryThrough these initiatives, Parish Collective provided formation, resources, and connection for pastors, lay leaders, young adults, and community practitioners working to renew local life across the U.S. The result is a growing movement of congregations organizations, and individuals who are faithfully imagining Church in this new era.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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 - 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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 70
  • Transparency & Controls: 85
  • Accountability: 62
  • Sustainability: 31
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 73.7%; rating input score 74
  • Program expense ratio: 73.7%; rating input score 74
  • Fundraising efficiency: $8.11 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 0.1%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.65; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.69; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 17.6%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 9.2% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 13.8% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 73.7% of revenue deployed · 73.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 6 board members independent · 3 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $358K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $83K · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 26 of 27 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • 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: 5 of 8 not reported.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 34/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 8/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.