Volunteer Center of Whatcom County
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 911259890
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2016
- Forms available
- Form 990 2015, Form 990-EZ 2016
- Location
- Bellingham, WA, USA
- Phone
- 3017345121
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Voluntarism Promotion
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $122,793
- Expenses
- $122,938
- Assets
- $31,860
- Liabilities
- $27,867
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2016. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
People named in this filing
- Heather Flaherty (Board Chair)
- Randall Carroll (Treasurer-Secretary)
- Eric Lipson (Member)
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 2016. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Volunteer Center of Whatcom County is a Non-Profit 501(c)(3) Agency serving Whatcom County through volunteerism. The Center operates volunteer programs and provides services of volunteers to others throughout its service territory.
What it reported doing in 2016
RSVP has approximately 225 volunteers in Whatcom County who are performing needed community services in the areas of: Food Security; Disaster Preparedness; Independent Living; Tutoring and Mentoring; Veteran's Transportation, and overall capacity building. These volunteers work with other volunteers and reach approximately 60,000 families and individuals who need these community services. The RSVP volunteers work with agencies such as: Food Banks; County and City Emergency Services; Senior Independent Living for Seniors agencies; County tutoring programs and veteran's organizations.
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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 78.9%; rating input score 79
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.1%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.26; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.87; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -20.4% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -45.6% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 79% of revenue deployed · 78.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $97K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.