Passages Family Support a Nonprofit Corporation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
272831224
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Spokane, WA, USA
Phone
5098929241
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Mental Health Treatment F31 Psychiatric, Mental Health Hospital

Reported finances

Revenue
$10,718,703
Expenses
$7,811,915
Assets
$21,941,108
Liabilities
$7,851,002

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • REBECCA HAMMILL (CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • REBECCA HAMMILL (CEO): $326,021 total reported compensation
  • CLAYTON PULVER (NURSE PRACTI): $229,142 total reported compensation
  • DAVINA AKIU (CLINICAL SUP): $115,195 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To provide a peer support organization that strives to form healthy partnerships with clients by providing recovery-based support services, coordination of care, classes, and advocacy to families, youth, and children living in spokane county and facing mental health challenges.

What it reported doing in 2025

Other program services include medication management, peer bridger, peer pathfinder, intensive residential treatment, northeast family youth, system partner roundtable, and better health together. Medication management provides the prescribing and monitoring of psychotropic medications to individuals enrolled in gos, wise, and the irt programs. Peer bridger's are our certified peer counselors who work closely with the eastern state hospital (esh) to identify individuals in the care of esh, who with support and skill development can live successfully in the community. Peer bridgers start working with individuals prior to discharge from esh and stay connected to those individuals post-discharge to help ensure a successful transition from the in-patient setting to community living. During 2025, we provided 579 services to 44 clients. Peer pathfinder's are our certified peer counselors who work closely with the local corrections facilities to identify individuals transitioning out of incarceration, who with support and skill development can live successfully in the community. Peer pathfinders start working with individuals prior to release from correction facilities and stay connected to those individuals post-release to help ensure a successful transition from the jail setting to community living. Intensive residential treatment (irt) provides services for individuals being discharged or diverted from state hospitals who need extra support to be successful in their transition into their community. During 2025, we provided 2,077 services to 343 clients. The northeast family youth brings together diverse system partners including families and youth in public systems to learn about regional resources and to identify regional strengths and challenges within publicly funded programs that serve at-risk children and youth. The ne fysprt convener and tri-leads participate in the Washington state health care authority/ division of behavioral health & recovery state family youth system partner roundtable. Through our regional accountable community of health, better health together, we participate in the integrated managed care initiative to improve health outcomes in northeast Washington. Passages receives medicaid funding through managed care organizations. General state funds and mental health and substance use disorder federal block grant funding through the spokane county regional behavioral health administrative services organization and the Washington state health care authority. We also are recipients of small grants from regional foundations and capital grants from the Washington state department of commerce.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 73% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration and liabilities are high compared with assets.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 61
  • Transparency & Controls: 84
  • Accountability: 81
  • Sustainability: 65
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 60%; rating input score 60
  • Program expense ratio: 82.8%; rating input score 83
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Pass
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 27.1%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.81; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.36; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 8.9%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 10.6% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 12.7% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 21.9% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 60% of revenue deployed · 82.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 6 of 9 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $6.5M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $326K · 12 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $1M reported
  • Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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 — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 30/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.