Pnw Native Lax
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 331475963
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Tacoma, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2536258419
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $64,230
- Expenses
- $7,399
- Assets
- $56,831
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JD ELQUIST (PRESIDENT)
- ANDREA BOULLEY (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- CHRIS CASTLEBERRY (DIRECTOR)
- RICK ROY (DIRECTOR)
- CARLY BLEMMEL (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Pnw native lax provides native youth and tribal communities access to creators game (lacrosse) as a pathway to cultural connection, community belonging, and personal growth through free clinics, camps, travel teams, and community programming while honoring the indigenous origins
What it reported doing in 2025
Pnw native lax launched creators court, a free biweekly community series running for three months that provided consistent, culturally rooted space for native youth and families to gather, play lacrosse, and connect with one another. The series established a replicable grassroots model for growing the game through community belonging and accessible competition, and has become a cornerstone of the organizations programmatic strategy.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% 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 most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 40
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 78
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 11.5%; rating input score 12
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 88.5%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.68; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 11.5% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $7K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 15 of 15 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- 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 12/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.