We Care of Whatcom County
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 911886554
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Bellingham, WA, USA
- Phone
- 3609697628
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Emergency Assistance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $142,446
- Expenses
- $159,928
- Assets
- $10,023
- Liabilities
- $468
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KELLIE SCHMIDT (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- KELLIE SCHMIDT (PRESIDENT): $3,117 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization's primary mission is the operation of a thrift shop to supply clothing, household items, and furniture to the needy in the community at little or no cost.
What it reported doing in 2024
Supply clothing, household items, and furniture to the needy in the community
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 93% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 40% for direct work, and 60% 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 97.7%; rating input score 98
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -12.3%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.06; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.9%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 21.4% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 27.7% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 97.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $156K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $3K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes grants
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 35/100.