Unity Collective
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 843820346
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Phone
- 9293524838
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Counseling, Support Groups
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $177,002
- Expenses
- $189,709
- Assets
- $11,212
- Liabilities
- $14,472
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ELIZABETH CHANG (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- DERECK KAMWESA (PRESIDENT)
- SHARON YOUNG (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ELIZABETH CHANG (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- NJERI THANDE (SECRETARY)
- DERECK KAMWESA (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
Counseling and clinical training.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provided low-cost mental health counseling to the community; provided training and supervision to graduate student mental health providers/interns. Provided clinical training to local mental health clinicians. Provided community events to raise mental health awareness.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 94% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 14
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.4%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 66.7%; rating input score 67
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: -7.2%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.06; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.29; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.2%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.5% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.1% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 71.4% of revenue deployed · 66.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $126K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.