Spokane Alliance United
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 854006710
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Spokane, WA, USA
- Phone
- 5095321688
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Coalitions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $137,925
- Expenses
- $132,328
- Assets
- $24,941
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Laurel Fish (Lead Organizer & Executive Director)
- Kimberly Meinecke (President)
- Jason Benway (Vice President & Secretary)
People named in this filing
- Laurel Fish (Lead Organizer & Executive Director)
- Kimberly Meinecke (President)
- Jason Benway (Vice President & Secretary)
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
The mission of Spokane Alliance United is to conduct training, public education, leadership development and research in order to build broad-based non-partisan civic power organizations in the Spokane region to address the fundamental common needs of the community including the inequities, and injustices facing low-income people and persons subjected to oppression or discrimination.
What it reported doing in 2024
Community Organizing Training: During the fiscal year, the organization provided community organizing training to approximately 92 individuals. Two Foundations of Community Organizing trainings were conducted in October 2024 and March 2025, each consisting of 16 instructional hours over two days and serving a total of 55 participants. In May 2025, the organization hosted a 5-Day Regional Community Organizing Training for 37 leaders from across the Pacific Northwest to strengthen leadership and civic engagement skills. Public Education and Civic Engagement: In Fall 2024, the organization facilitated a series of small-group meetings engaging 210 participants in discussions on local community issues. These meetings culminated in a Discernment Assembly attended by more than 150 individuals, where participants identified priority areas for action, including housing equity, access to quality jobs, and support for the public education system. Leadership Formation and Citizen-Led Research: The organization supported four Research Action Teams composed of educators, union members, faith representatives, and community leaders. These teams conducted issue research and developed proposals to address local challenges in education, housing, and workforce development.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.1%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 83.5%; rating input score 83
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: 4.1%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.19; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -12.9% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.7% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -39.6% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.1% of revenue deployed · 83.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $110K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 45/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.