Twin Harbors Waterkeeper

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
841941740
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
Location
Rochester, WA, USA
Phone
2152870043
Rating
91
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Pollution Abatement and Control Services

Reported finances

Revenue
$139,716
Expenses
$200,820
Assets
$140,571
Liabilities
$12,476

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Sue Joerger (Executive Director (until April 2025))
  • Eleanor Hines (Executive Director (from May 2025))
  • Arthur Grubaum (President)
  • Linda Orgel (Vice President & Treasurer)

People named in this filing

  • Sue Joerger (Executive Director (until April 2025))
  • Eleanor Hines (Executive Director (from May 2025))
  • Arthur Grubaum (President)

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

The mission of Twin Harbors Waterkeeper is to protect and improve water quality and marine and freshwater habitats on the Washington Coast including the watersheds of the Hoh, Quillayute, Queets and Quinault and Chehalis Rivers and the Grays Harbor Estuary and Willapa Bay Watershed.

What it reported doing in 2025

Twin Harbors Waterkeeper has three major programs. The first program works to protect water quality by conducting water quality observations and sampling and by working with regulatory agencies. The second program conducts outreach and education around a variety of topics including the environmental impacts of proposed projects, cleaning up contaminated industrial sites the Willapa and Chehalis watersheds, educating high school youth about microplastics pollution and conducting a variety of coastal marine debris cleanups. The third program provides professional teacher training and watershed education experiences for coastal high school teachers and watershed education and field trips for high school students. Twin Harbors Waterkeeper has 480+ members.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 94
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 18
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 83.7%; 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: -43.7%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.7; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 41.8%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 19.5% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -2.7% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 83.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $168K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 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: Operating margin scored 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.