Sharing Alongside

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
760789605
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Shoreline, WA, USA
Phone
2065425148
Rating
89
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Christianity
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$120,694
Expenses
$133,741
Assets
$85,635

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

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DR DEXTER BARNES (President)

People named in this filing

  • GARY BARCKERT (Executive Dir.)
  • MIRIAM BARCKERT (Director)
  • BRYCE BARNES (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Religious, charitable, and educational.

What it reported doing in 2025

Sharing alongside continued to provide pastoral ministry to individual families across a wide spectrum of contexts - dementia/alzheimer's, unemployment, divorce, hospitalization due to serious illness, spiritual and personal guidance. Gary barckert officiated at 53 funeral services and 0 wedding ceremony. This volume of work requires maintaining a high-quality relationship with funeral home personnel, developing a relationship of integrity with families through listening and learning the family story and personal biography with its dynamics, and preparing carefully and thoroughly for a caring and dynamic tribute to the deceased. Sharing alongside also produced and mailed five writted inspirational and thoughtful pieces to its mailing list of approximately 714 individuals.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 86
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 19
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 88.8%; rating input score 89
  • Program expense ratio: 80.1%; rating input score 80

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -10.8%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.64; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 89.7%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 11.3% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 88.8% of revenue deployed · 80.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $107K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 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.

Key Signals

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

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.