Washington Outdoor School

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
471791198
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2018
Location
Roslyn, WA, USA
Phone
2068982041
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Youth Development Programs

Reported finances

Revenue
$136,206
Expenses
$85,916
Assets
$59,324
Liabilities
$2,915

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Hideki Takei (President and Treasurer)
  • Jennifer Ellis (Vice President and Secretary)

People named in this filing

  • Sibyl Maer-Fillo (School Director)
  • Hideki Takei (President and Treasurer)
  • Jennifer Ellis (Vice President and 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

At Washington Outdoor School we cultivate learning and growth in joyful partnership with nature and our community. WE BELIEVE THAT INTERACTING WITH NATURE ENCOURAGES A SENSE OF PLACE, AWAKENS CURIOSITY AND CREATES HEALTHY MINDS AND BODIES.

What it reported doing in 2025

We offer year around, all outdoor nature-based immersion education to children ages 0-13 and their families in kittitas county in morning and after school during the school year and summer camp programs. School year programs run from september to june. Morning programs are 1-4 days per week, up to 4 hours per day. After school programs are 1-4 days per week for 2 hours per day. Summer camps are 4 days per week for up to 6 hours a day for 7 weeks in july and august. Typically, we serve approximately 150 students in these programs.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 66% 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 total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 61
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 60
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 49.9%; rating input score 50
  • Program expense ratio: 79%; rating input score 79

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: 36.9%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.69; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 12.5%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -13.1% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -1.1% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 73.6% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 49.9% of revenue deployed · 79% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $68K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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 50/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.