Washington State Coalition of African Community Leaders
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 821030503
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Renton, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2064829122
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Coalitions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $299,240
- Expenses
- $275,515
- Assets
- $103,270
- Liabilities
- $46,848
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- HASSNA CALHOUN (VICE PRESIDENT OF FUNDRAISING)
- ASIA FAHIE (VICE PRESIDENT OF HOUSING)
- SALENNA GREEN (VICE PRESIDENT OF COMMUNICATIONS)
- MARTHA LUCAS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- MARTHA LUCAS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $29,200 total reported compensation
- HASSNA CALHOUN (VICE PRESIDENT OF FUNDRAISING): $1,000 total reported compensation
- DR TSEGUY ABRAHA PHARMD (CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER): $1,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We support african-descent member organizations and individuals build trust and collaborate across communities to solve our common challenges. The core services we offer are outreach/translation, preserving our culture and heritage, intergenerational leadership development, event support services and youth programs. Our outreach volunteers and contract language translators speak 34 african diaspora languages.
What it reported doing in 2024
Evergreen environmental justice youth warriors program:- previously known as the african youth drug program beginning in 2019, wscacl's evergreen environmental justice warriors (eej) grew from 5 youth to 23 youth and young adults from king, snohomish, and pierce counties from 7 african communities. Wscacl uses an intergenerational african village model incorporating african culture by including communication and coordination between the community leaders, young adult coach, youth leaders, youth, and parents in the program. - evergreen environmental justice youth warriors designed and hosted a mental health therapist from the community that taught at total of 56 african descent community members non violent communication and mindfulness strategies in two sessions that resulted in two people seeking the professional therapist services. We conducted pre-post surveys where we exceeded our measurable goals with 88% -100% program satisfaction. - evergreen presented and successfully advocated for action to 89 south king & surrounding area community members with the stacc4j fix the harm air plane project, they planted two trees in an environmental health disparities 10 area; cleaned up the spokane river, participated in educational presentations from spokane ej project organizers spokane naacp, the land council, and the spokane river keepers; participated in ej advocacy with front & centered in olympia, taught heal subgrantee applicants about the no and low cost ej project options that make a big community impact, and learned about the salmon life cycle.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 66% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 74% for direct work, and 26% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.4%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 93.9%; rating input score 94
- Fundraising efficiency: $188.44 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 94.7%; rating input score 95; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.9%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.37; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.45; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.1%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -33.1% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.4% of revenue deployed · 93.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 6 filed program accomplishments · $259K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $29K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 23 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 27/100.