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Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 870786239
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2017
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2017
- Location
- Bellingham, WA, USA
- Phone
- 3603127105
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Business and Industry
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $133,521
- Expenses
- $144,352
- Assets
- $24,005
- Liabilities
- $802
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Dwayne Neufeld (President)
- Kamira Rea (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Dwayne Neufeld (President)
- Brad Johnson (Officer)
- Matt Bain (Officer)
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 2017. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To inform, represent, and connect Whatcom area technology businesses and professionals.
What it reported doing in 2017
We work to increase technology commercialization capabilities by fostering partnerships between educational research institutions and technology business.
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
- 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: 82
- Sustainability: 18
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8.1%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.17; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 41.2%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.5% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2012 to 2017
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 44/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.