Wagisa
Legal name: Washington Gis Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 911930670
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Auburn, WA, USA
- Phone
- 3603192492
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Business and Industry
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $104,382
- Expenses
- $80,457
- Assets
- $132,761
- Liabilities
- $84
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DARCI SMITH (VICE PRESIDENT)
- CHRISTINA CHELF (PAST PRESIDENT)
- TAYLOR DIXON (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DARCI SMITH (VICE PRESIDENT)
- CHRISTINA CHELF (PAST PRESIDENT)
- EMILY PITMAN HANDY (TREASURER)
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
WAGISA supports and encourages professional growth in the GIS field through continuing education, communication, advocacy, and service to its members.
What it reported doing in 2025
Sponsor an annual conference
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 98% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 70
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.3%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 97.6%; rating input score 98
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 22.9%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.65; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.2% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 75.3% of revenue deployed · 97.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $79K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.