Sit and Be Fit
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 912015896
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2014, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-T 2020
- Location
- Spokane, WA, USA
- Phone
- 5094489438
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Health Systems
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $113,446
- Expenses
- $168,050
- Assets
- $91,033
- Liabilities
- $43,158
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARY ANN WILSON (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MARY ANN WILSON (PRESIDENT)
- GRETCHEN WILSON (SECRETARY)
- MARK OLSON (BOARD MEMBER)
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
Sit and be fit is a non-profit organization committed to healthy aging advocacy. We believe everyone has the right to feel good and age well. We empower people to improve their lives through safe, effective, media-based health and wellness programming.
What it reported doing in 2024
Sit and be fit is a media-based organization that promotes healthy aging and fitness by teaching gentle, medically sound exercises to older adults, those managing chronic conditions, and those with physical limitations. Sit and be fit also serves as a resource for caregivers, fitness experts, and healthcare professionals. In november and december of 2023 sit and be fit produced 20 new episodes seasons 19 and 20. The new episodes will be distributed to public television stations in 2024. The sit and be fit television series, seasons 10-18, continue to air throughout the public television network averaging 44,000 airings per year. Additionally, the series airs in an undetermined number of government and community access cable stations. The sit and be fit dvd workout library and streaming platform continue to serve communities and populations where the series is not available. These resources are similarly used by healthcare professionals in various settings including senior living facilities, senior centers, and hospitals. Sit and be fit staff responded personally to hundreds of inquiries about exercises that address specific health needs and provided exercise resources including the neuropathy exercise guide, and lymphatic health exercise guide. Over 500 sit and be fit dvds were donated to facilities, community organizations and individuals on limited budgets. Approximately 140,000 unique visitors populate the www.sitandbefit.org website where they can find health and fitness tips as well as information about where/when the television series airs. Periodic electronic newsletters are sent to a database of 13,000 plus. These electronic newsflashes feature articles on topics ranging from healthy aging and chronic condition management to nutrition and injury prevention. A hard copy of a complimentary newsletter is offered via the television program and sent to viewers who call and request a copy.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 65% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 17
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 98.3%; rating input score 98
- Program expense ratio: 66.4%; rating input score 66
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -48.1%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.54; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.47; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.6%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.6% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 98.3% of revenue deployed · 66.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $112K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 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 2/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.