Sabala International Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 822645514
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Tacoma, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2532307168
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $320,186
- Expenses
- $454,756
- Assets
- $814,206
- Liabilities
- $924,586
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Evelyn Undziakiewicz (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Evelyn Undziakiewicz (Executive Director): $55,556 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to encourage individuals to create and maintain stable lives by providing immediate transitional housing intensive personal accountability and a clear pathway to permanent self-sufficiency.
What it reported doing in 2025
Empowering Individuals to Maintain Stable Lives: True stability outlasts our program. By pairing residents with intensive case resource management we address the root causes of their housing instability. Our focus on financial literacy career coaching and housing navigation ensures that the 71% of participants an average of up to 22 individuals annually who graduate directly into permanent housing possess the skills savings and habits required to maintain that housing for the long term. Encouraging Individuals to Create Stable Lives: We empower residents to take active ownership of their futures. Through our earned-income model participants contribute affordable rent payments. This requirement instills real-world financial discipline rebuilds rental history and gives residents the confidence that they are the primary authors of their own stabilization. Sabala International Center operates a highly effective metrics-driven transitional model. The program boasts a 71% success rate of participants successfully graduating from transitional housing into permanent independent living. Longitudinal tracking confirms these individuals maintain housing stability for two or more years post-graduation.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 91% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 86.2%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.19 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -42%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.79; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.14; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.2%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.9% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 41.7% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 86.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $392K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $56K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 43 of 43 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.