Sustainable Ballard
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 371835615
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $144,144
- Expenses
- $148,848
- Assets
- $52,862
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Andrea Faste (Board President - Former)
- Jennifer Heins (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Andrea Faste (Board President - Former)
- Judy Tangen (Board Secretary)
- Olivia Price (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
Sustainability Education for Ballard Seattle USA residents.
What it reported doing in 2025
RainWise Rebates and Outreach: Funded by King County Wastewater Treatment Division. Sub-contractors and interns teach workshops host events and share information about stormwater issues in Seattle. We publicize rebates given by the city and county for installing rain gardens and cisterns on private property. Sustainable Ballard represented RainWise at 37 community events in 2025. 2063 RainWise brochures were distributed through information boxes in ambassador yards.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 76% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.2%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 75.6%; rating input score 76
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.3%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.36; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 63.1%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 19.4% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.4% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.8% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.2% of revenue deployed · 75.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 12 filed program accomplishments · $113K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 17 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.