Quilters Anonymous
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 911338816
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Lynnwood, WA, USA
- Phone
- 6234664901
- Rating
- 52
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $126,512
- Expenses
- $107,899
- Assets
- $171,533
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Christina Allen (President)
- Katie Joyce (President - Elect)
- Karen Phillips (Past President)
People named in this filing
- Christina Allen (President)
- Robin Cain (Day Secretary)
- Tanya Rathmann (Night Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We are a non-profit organization whose purpose is to share the love and knowledge of all aspects of quilting. Quilters Anonymous is a 501(C)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the heritage of quilting and promoting excellence and education in this needlecraft.
What it reported doing in 2024
Quilters anonymous is involved in a variety of community service projects. Each year 800 to 1000 quilts are provided to premature babies in the neonatal care units at seattle area hospitals. The program has provided premature babies and their families with over 6,400 quilts since 2016. Holiday stockings are created for community centers that help low income children and families. Hundreds of stockings are created each year with over 14,000 donated since 2016. Lap robe size quilts are made for cancer patients receiving treatment. Since 2007 more than 100 quilts have been created for this project. Quilters anonymous also provides quilts to nursing homes and hospice care facilities
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 22
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 69
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 21.2%; rating input score 21
- Program expense ratio: 24.9%; rating input score 25
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.7%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.59; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 21.2% of revenue deployed · 24.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $27K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- 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 21/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 25/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.