Skills Inc.
Legal name: Skills Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 910816065
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Auburn, WA, USA
- Phone
- 206.782.6000
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Sheltered Employment
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $25,759,368
- Expenses
- $23,534,436
- Assets
- $40,732,831
- Liabilities
- $16,655,801
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARK FREDERICKS (CHAIRMAN/PRESIDENT)
- TODD DUNNINGTON (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- TODD DUNNINGTON (CEO): $371,038 total reported compensation
- CHARLES FRAMPTON (DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS): $306,500 total reported compensation
- ERIC CARLSON (DIRECTOR OF QUALITY): $191,234 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Through responsible management and solid corporate partnerships, we create and maintain a stable, rewarding place of work, where persons with disabilities contribute their skills.
What it reported doing in 2024
The mission of skills, inc. Is to recruit, train, employ and serve persons with disabilities. Our corporate resources are used to provide employment opportunities at skills inc. And in the community for individuals who have barriers to employment. Skills inc. Employed approximately 206 persons with disabilities during 2024. In addition, skills inc. Also provided mentoring, assessment and placement services for 103 persons with disabilities through our vocational service and aerospace internship programs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.5%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 79%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.6%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.73; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.41; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.6%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -7.5% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.6% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 83.5% of revenue deployed · 79% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 11 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $18.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $371K · 20 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 32/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.