The Silent Task Force

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
823015372
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2019
Location
Seattle, WA, USA
Phone
2064834682
Rating
84
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Centers to Support the Independence of Specific Populations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,141,980
Expenses
$1,376,341
Assets
$266,423
Liabilities
$12,334

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Janice Lee (President)

People named in this filing

  • Janice Lee (President)
  • Wendy Armour (Treasurer)
  • Patty Pendgraf (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Silent Task Forces main function is to engage educate and provide resources services to our community. Our goal is to heal the impact and effects of the systemic violence that occurs historically and currently in the lives of our black families and communities.

What it reported doing in 2024

Securing a brick-and-mortar building in the heart of Skyway has been transformative for TSTF providing a stable and welcoming hub to expand its impact on the community. This centralized location has enabled TSTF to significantly increase its reach and effectiveness across a variety of programs. Notably it has fostered the creation of a safe and supportive environment where over 250 individuals and households have received crucial healthy relationship support. Furthermore the building has served as a vital base for TSTFs food justice initiatives enabling the organization to serve upwards of 30,000 households with greater efficiency and impact. The Task House has also become a vibrant center for youth development providing social-emotional programming to over 150 students from kindergarten to 8th grade. TSTF has also leveraged this space to launch impactful community initiatives such as installing Wi-Fi connectivity in a tiny house village bridging the digital divide for vulnerable residents as well as paved the way for the development of a pre-apprenticeship department creating pathways to skilled trades and economic empowerment for community members. In essence this building has become a cornerstone of TSTFs mission enabling significant growth and a deeper connection to the community.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 97% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 89
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 76
  • Sustainability: 23
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -20.5%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.19; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 45.5% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 35.3% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 26% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.4M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $134K reported
  • Consistency: 41 of 42 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 53/100.