The Goodenough Community
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 911187421
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2009–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Tahuya, WA, USA
- Phone
- 3608360317
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $161,375
- Expenses
- $118,935
- Assets
- $470,698
- Liabilities
- $481,009
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Tom George (President)
People named in this filing
- Tom George (President)
- Steve Ghan (Treasurer)
- Elizabeth Jarrett Jefferson (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Teaching and research about relationship and community through cultural programs and events; writing and publishing, including website, about processes that build community and effective citizens; offering learning center facilities for community groups.
What it reported doing in 2025
Cultural programs, events, workshops and retreats; writing and publishing, including website, about processes that build community and effective citizens; organizational development and training, and other community events.
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. Liabilities are high compared with assets and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 62.2%; rating input score 62
- Program expense ratio: 84.4%; rating input score 84
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: 26.3%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.96; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.02; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 17.7%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 62.2% of revenue deployed · 84.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $100K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 10 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: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.