Window Seat Media

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
811200465
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2019
Location
Olympia, WA, USA
Rating
87
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$83,913
Expenses
$139,502
Assets
$3,281
Liabilities
$42,676

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Mary E Vradenburgh (Co-Executive Director)
  • Sarah Ryan (President)
  • Kahlo Flores (Vice President)
  • Meg Rosenberg (Co-Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Mary E Vradenburgh (Co-Executive Director)
  • Sarah Ryan (President)
  • Cristian Salazar (Co-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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Window Seats mission is to gather people together to share stories that spark conversation connection and social change. We do this because we believe we write our future with the stories we narrate and we want to co-create a more inclusive connected and just world.

What it reported doing in 2024

Window Seat is a community oral history organization that builds capacity within the community to document and share their own history and stories. Were particularly concerned with those stories that may be ignored forgotten or silenced throughout history. We teach oral history research methods and ethics as well as skills in public programming such as exhibit design and curation and podcasting to engage the community in themes from the stories we gather.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 74% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 7
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -66.2%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.02; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 13.01; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 63.5%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 31.3% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 13.5% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -20.2% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $140K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.