Tacoma Community House
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 910570872
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Tacoma, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2533833951
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Neighborhood Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,078,340
- Expenses
- $5,639,085
- Assets
- $17,231,882
- Liabilities
- $8,729,345
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Aimee Khuu (Executive Dir.): $164,582 total reported compensation
- Alyssa Ross (CFO): $41,304 total reported compensation
- Joanna Nieto (CFO): $36,806 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Tacoma Community House creates opportunities for immigrants, refugees and other community members in the Puget Sound regions through comprehensive services focused on self-sufficiency, inclusion and advocacy.
What it reported doing in 2024
Immigration Program - Tacoma Community House is recognized by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Legal Access Programs and may represent low-income and indigent clients before the Department of Homeland Security. Immigration provided citizenship classes (citizenship application and classes), submitted a variety of applications, petitions, renewals to USCIS, and counseling were offered for a fraction of the cost of an independent attorney. TCH partnered with One America to host citizenship day and offer free legal services tomore than 50 clients in one day.* 1,479 immigration services* 1,123 applications submitted to USCIS* 145 clients became US Citizens* 96 clients enrolled in Citizenship Classes* 122 LPR Adjustment
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 70% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 67
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 83.5%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $14.92 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -11%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.06; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.51; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.3%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.4% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 93% of revenue deployed · 83.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $4.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $165K · 18 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay and related organizations
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 59/100.