Spokane Zero Waste
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 922861440
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Spokane, WA, USA
- Phone
- 5107173731
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $144,834
- Expenses
- $106,861
- Assets
- $48,299
- Liabilities
- $1,169
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Elyse Hochstadt (President)
People named in this filing
- Elyse Hochstadt (President)
- Maggie Schott (Secretary)
- Rebecca Fulton (Treasurer)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We are a group of creative, passionate people who believe there are low-waste or waste free solutions for almost every aspect of daily life. We work to build a more resilient community through education, modeling and advocating for low waste policies.
What it reported doing in 2025
Aim for Zero: Ran waste sorting stations at a monthly outdoor event over a 6 month period to demonstrate how to reduce upstream waste through materials selection and how to manage and separate downstream waste for the least negative outcome.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.5%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 86.1%; rating input score 86
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: 26.2%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.45; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 21.2%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 27.3% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 125.2% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63.5% of revenue deployed · 86.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 5 filed program accomplishments · $92K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.