Together Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 911508791
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2020
- Location
- Redmond, WA, USA
- Phone
- 4258696699
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,423,237
- Expenses
- $1,598,928
- Assets
- $14,540,534
- Liabilities
- $3,889,164
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KIM SARNECKI (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- KIM SARNECKI (CEO): $213,593 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Together center creates access to human services, so people can find help when they need it. Tens of thousands of people from throughout east king county seek services at together center, a regional facility. One of the first multi-tenant nonprofit centers in the nation, together center works collaboratively to improve efficiencies and to lower barriers to finding help. We build partnerships to meet gaps in services and provide information, referrals, and other assistance to ensure all people can find help when they need it. At together center people find help and services at 25+ essential human service agencies. Our welcoming campus is designed to improve housing stability, promote personal agency, and deliver essential whole-person support across our community.
What it reported doing in 2025
Building partnerships and collaboration to strengthen nonprofits: together center developed partnerships, hosted events, and activities to build the capacities of nonprofit agencies through sponsoring events, convenings for agencies and the community, sponsorship of the alliance of eastside agencies, and nonprofit trainings that supports better delivery of services to the community. Together conference center hosted hundreds of events in 2025 with both onsite nonprofits and other regional nonprofits. Our coworking studio and gallery provide flexible space for nonprofit workers and for community artists to display their work.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 72% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.9%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 83.3%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $2.62 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -12.3%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 9.09; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.27; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.4%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.3% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 93.9% of revenue deployed · 83.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $214K · 13 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 28/100.