Pierce County Alliance

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
910906330
IRS 990 coverage
2014–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Tacoma, WA, USA
Phone
2535724750
Rating
72
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$12,348,539
Expenses
$11,125,761
Assets
$6,607,031
Liabilities
$907,165

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

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Barry Reid (President)
  • Tess Mandapat (Vice President)
  • Terree Schmidt-Whelan (Executive Director)

Highest reported compensation

  • Terree Schmidt-Whelan (Executive Director): $309,874 total reported compensation
  • Phi-Diep Damo (Chief Financial Officer): $156,362 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

The purpose of Pierce County Alliance is to plan, organize, operate, establish, and evaluate human and social services for the residents of Pierce County.

What it reported doing in 2025

Outreach Services - Recovery is hope in action. The Recovery Navigator Program uses a harm reduciton approach, specifically targeting justice-involved members of our community for the purpose of diversion and recovery from the underlying causes of criminal behavior, including untreated Subsance Use Disorder and Mental Health Disorders. The program strengthens the connections between systems of care, increasing community-based capacity in the integration of trauma-informed care and reinforcing health promotion in the community.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 93% 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 69
  • Transparency & Controls: 73
  • Accountability: 75
  • Sustainability: 46
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 74.8%; rating input score 75
  • Program expense ratio: 83.2%; rating input score 83
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 9.9%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.59; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 4.2%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 9.2% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 74.8% of revenue deployed · 83.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 9 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $9.3M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $310K · 10 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2025
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 9 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.