The Who We Are Project

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
852794946
IRS 990 coverage
2024–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Seattle, WA, USA
Phone
2066660343
Rating
63
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Intergroup, Race Relations

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,568,302
Expenses
$1,121,938
Assets
$2,384,325
Liabilities
$185,049

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Jeffery Robinson (Chief Executive Officer)
  • Twyla Carter (President)
  • Rahsaan Hall (Vice President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Jeffery Robinson (Chief Executive Officer): $137,500 total reported compensation
  • Andrea Crabtree (Chief of Staff): $137,000 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Who We Are Project preserves and shares the history of anti-Black racism in the United States by collecting documentation, cultivating historians, facilitating learning, and producing media content for broad distribution.

What it reported doing in 2024

TWWAP's Appearances, Events, and Speaking Engagements deploy founding CEO Jeffery Robinson and other speakers to present media, share historical information, and facilitate conversation at various events throughout the country and online. The second full year of the program in 2023 involved more than 35 appearances, including festivals and workshops and speaking engagements with groups, leaders and teams across a range of sectors and communities, mostly related to engagement and outreach surrounding the feature film, and reaching approximately 50,000 people.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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 - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 41
  • Transparency & Controls: 84
  • Accountability: 91
  • Sustainability: 71
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 26.5%; rating input score 26
  • Program expense ratio: 60.6%; rating input score 61
  • Fundraising efficiency: $15.63 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 56.3%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.13; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 24.5%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 26.5% of revenue deployed · 60.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $680K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $138K · 6 people listed
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $153K reported
  • Consistency: 40 of 41 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 26/100.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 52/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.