Parsa
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 860942485
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- South Colby, WA, USA
- Phone
- 3604430246
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Economic Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,035,178
- Expenses
- $1,720,265
- Assets
- $757,298
- Liabilities
- $138,218
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- MARNIE GUSTAVSON (EXECUTIVE DR 11-63025): $48,675 total reported compensation
- ALYSSA HOSEMAN (EXECUTIVE DR 71-123125): $46,800 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Parsa works directly with the disadvantaged people of afghanistan to support communities as they make their own development solutions promoting social change & a healthy and fair society, especially for women & children. Building economies for women, families & youth leadership.
What it reported doing in 2024
FORM 990, PAGE 2, PART III, QUESTION 4D - Other projects include: 1. Education for a Sustainable Future: A community-based education initiative that equips local leaders, especially women and youth, to operate homeschools providing informal education, vocational training, and humanitarian support to their communities.2. Safe Spaces Program: A prevention and intervention initiative addressing gender-based violence through culturally sensitive in-home support groups and family counseling, providing protection and psychosocial support for vulnerable women and their families.3. Womens Economic Empowerment through Livelihoods Project: Implemented in Kabul and Bamiyan, this project supported 160 women with vocational and business training, market linkages, and participation in local trade events to strengthen economic independence.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 91% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 58
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.3%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 94.4%; rating input score 94
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- 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: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.5%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.44; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.6%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.3% of revenue deployed · 94.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $49K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 50/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.