Washington Council of Trout Unlimited
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 510225116
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Bellevue, WA, USA
- Phone
- 6512338089
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fishing, Hunting
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $155,280
- Expenses
- $129,423
- Assets
- $192,106
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
People named in this filing
- Patricia Hesselgesser (CHAIR)
- Scott Goddard (Treas/Sec)
- Chris Taylor (SECRETARY)
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
Primary exempt purpose: as part of trout unlimited, the Washington council shares the mission to conserve, protect, and restore north america's coldwater fisheries and their watersheds. The Washington council works in the state of Washington to help fulfill this mission.
What it reported doing in 2025
Conservation science and monitoring:1. Support program efforts to identify, locate, and assess fish migration barriers in partnership with Washington department of fish and wildlife (wdfw), the tulalip tribes, and other partners2. Conduct spawning surveys of steelhead and coho salmon on the white salmon river in partnership with wdfw3. Developing and evaluating means to prevent the highly toxic tire chemical 6ppd-q from entering salmonid spawning streamsthese are statewide conservation benefits
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 86% 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. No material rating questions were generated from the available inputs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.7%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 93.2%; rating input score 93
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: 16.7%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.48; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 22.9% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77.7% of revenue deployed · 93.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $121K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.