Spokane Agricultural Exposition
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 910998656
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Spokane, WA, USA
- Phone
- 5093213613
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $484,362
- Expenses
- $477,400
- Assets
- $367,241
- Liabilities
- $361,177
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Alisha Benson (Executive Vice President)
- Christy Harrison (President)
- Kara Rowe (1st Vice President)
- Jason Johnston (2nd Vice President)
- Chris Clausen (Past President)
- Melissa Paul (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Alisha Benson (Executive Vice President): $254,684 total reported compensation
- Melissa Paul (Executive Director): $86,929 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Spokane Ag Expo and Pacific Northwest Farm Forum is a multi-day event that takes place in Spokane, WA and brings together Agriculture professionals from across the Northwest. (Continued on Schedule O)It's a place where they meet to collaborate, connect, and create new relationships. A variety of seminars are presented by industry professionals on industry changes, technology, and resources. The exposition is a platform for the next generation of agriculture professionals to grow through exposure to industry pathways.
What it reported doing in 2024
The Annual Ag Show is a multi-day event held each February in Spokane, WA and provides an opportunity to meet, collaborate and learn from Industry professionals throughout the region on a variety of agricultural topics. The Spokane Ag Show brings in over 5,700 attendees, houses over 290 exhibiting companies, and 2,500 exhibitor representatives and presents nearly 50 professional farm forum seminars.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 68
- Accountability: 60
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 94.7%; rating input score 95; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.4%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.77; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.98; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.8%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -16.3% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 18 of 19 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $255K · 20 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 11 of 11 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 43/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 29/100.