Space Between
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 814546023
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2069094678
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Personal Social Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $445,081
- Expenses
- $374,009
- Assets
- $201,193
- Liabilities
- $1,712
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- DAMITHIA NIEVES (CO-DIRECTOR): $95,234 total reported compensation
- KARA-LEE RUOTOLO (CO-DIRECTOR): $90,494 total reported compensation
- NICOLE SIRIVANSANTI (CO-DIRECTOR): $44,244 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Space between helps school communities integrate mindfulness practices to support mental health, well-being, and positive social-emotional development. Along with work in the classroom, space between offers workshops, intensives, and special events including family yoga and educator workshops for the whole community.
What it reported doing in 2024
Space between taught mindfulness to students, teens, educators, and family members. We served about 1,709 people during the 2024-2025 school year.our impact is acknowledged by people in our anonymous surveys: a majority, 52% of 3rd-5th grade student survey respondents reported that they use mindfulness practices they learned with space between.100% of classroom teacher survey respondents reported that they felt confident bringing mindfulness into their classroom routines.82% of classroom teacher survey respondents reported that they noticed students using mindfulness practices at school since space between has been teaching in their classroom.82% of classroom teacher survey respondents reported that mindfulness practices were being used outside of space between classes in their school.a large majority, 69%, of family survey respondents reported that they noticed their student using mindfulness practices outside of school.73% of family survey respondents reported that they have noticed a positive change in their student's self-awareness.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 59
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 77
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 58.9%; rating input score 59
- Program expense ratio: 70.1%; rating input score 70
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.97 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 26; 26th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 16%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.54; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 62.7%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.8% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.6% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 58.9% of revenue deployed · 70.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $262K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $95K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.