Washington Autism Alliance

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
352440624
IRS 990 coverage
2013–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2012
Location
Kirkland, WA, USA
Phone
4258947231
Rating
73
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Health Support Services

Reported finances

Revenue
$728,643
Expenses
$541,898
Assets
$808,327
Liabilities
$36,335

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

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ARZU FOROUGH (PRESIDENT CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • ARZU FOROUGH (PRESIDENT CEO): $121,698 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Waa expands access to healthcare education and services for people with autism and other intellecutal and developmental disabilities in Washington state.

What it reported doing in 2025

Education legal advocacy - along with our free legal clinic 1:1 coaching by an attorney or senior legal assistant conflict resolution and legal representation in education disputes and blueprints to special education training workshops to help families navigate the iep system waas special education law library offers tools to help families advocate for the special education accomodations their child needs. In addition we help identify services and support working with care providers and other agencies to ensure children have access to the educational support they need regardless of economic language or cultural barriers. Our programs and community groups work to ensure that people with autism spectrum disorder asd and related intellectual and developmental disabilities idd have every opportunity to thrive and be productive through workshops social and recreational activities. Waa offers blueprints to special education training workshops that provide practical information about everything from regulations governing insurance and educational benefits to how to enhance parental relationships with their child. This workshop is presented by special education attorneys who explain how to use the building blocks of federal and state laws to develop appropriate services for your learner. Also parents teachers and other caregivers can learn to help those on the autism spectrum realize their full potential the supporting parents of autism spa online support netowrk allows parents to shrare struggles challenges and joys.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 64% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

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: 58
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Accountability: 63
  • Sustainability: 60
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 54.4%; rating input score 54
  • Program expense ratio: 73.2%; rating input score 73
  • Fundraising efficiency: $8.41 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 29; 29th 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: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 90%; rating input score 90; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 25.6%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.49; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 22.5%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 54.4% of revenue deployed · 73.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 9 of 10 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $397K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $122K · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 41 of 43 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2013 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 54/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 29/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX FeesForServicesLegal column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 44/100.