Tubman Center for Health & Freedom

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
851543325
IRS 990 coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Seattle, WA, USA
Phone
2067250747
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Patient Services - Entertainment, Recreation

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$7,959,818
Expenses
$3,987,495
Assets
$20,318,238
Liabilities
$1,970,305

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

20 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • AYENAY ABYE (CEO)
  • CARMEN DAVIS (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • ELIZABETH MACK (ACUPUNCTURIST AND ARNP): $145,000 total reported compensation
  • DANISHA JEFFERSON-ABYE (COO): $133,750 total reported compensation
  • AYENAY ABYE (CEO): $133,750 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The tubman center for health & freedom addresses health and wellness from both systemic and clinical approaches. By practicing medicine from the intersection of health and freedom, we address both the health of our patients as well as the factors that determine their health. Tubman health provides primary and preventative care, community resources, social services, political education and advocacy.

What it reported doing in 2025

Health services - tubman health provides community-designed, integrative health services and health promotion programs at two clinical sites, the healing house and the freedom clinic at rainier valley leadership academy. In addition to direct clinical care, our tubman guides program provides care accompaniment and wraparound support, connecting patients to community resources and addressing health-related social needs. The tubman gatherings program offers classes and sessions on health promotion skills and learning (e.g., cooking for mental health, yoga, etc.). While delivering services and programs at these two sites, we are building our third and largest clinic to expand our innovative services to 12,000 community members.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 51
  • Transparency & Controls: 94
  • Accountability: 82
  • Sustainability: 74
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 36.1%; rating input score 36
  • Program expense ratio: 72.1%; rating input score 72
  • Fundraising efficiency: $26.14 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings

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: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • 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: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 49.9%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.1; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 24.1%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 39.6% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 31.8% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 52.8% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 36.1% of revenue deployed · 72.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $2.9M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $145K · 20 people listed
  • Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $418K reported
  • Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 8 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 36/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 49/100.