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Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by WILLIAM D RUCKELSHAUS CENTERFOUNDATION.

Totals

Total revenue
$302,922
Total expenses
$319,283
Contributions and grants received
$110,597
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$183,739
Other revenue
$8,586
Total assets, end of year
$5,439,778
Total liabilities, end of year
$0
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$5,439,778
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$204,057
Management and general expenses
$29,344
Fundraising expenses
$85,882
Program service expenses (Part III)
$204,057

Program services were 63.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1a · Federated campaigns

    $109,230

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $1,367

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $183,739 · excluded $183,739

  • 4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds

    total $0

  • 5 · Royalties

    total $0

  • 6d · Net rental income or loss

    total $0

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $0

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $8,586

  • 8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

    $1,367

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $8,586

  • 9c · Net income from gaming

    total $0

  • 10c · Net income from sales of inventory

    total $0

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $0

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $0

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $0

  • 3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

    total $0

  • 4 · Benefits paid to or for members

    total $0

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $0

  • 6 · Compensation of disqualified persons

    total $0

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $148,323 · program services $142,077 · management and general $480 · fundraising $5,766

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $0

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $44,265 · program services $41,508 · management and general $173 · fundraising $2,584

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $0

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $0

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $0

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $0

  • 11d · Fees: lobbying

    total $0

  • 11e · Fees: professional fundraising services

    total $0

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $0

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $25,040 · management and general $5,040 · fundraising $20,000

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $159 · management and general $159

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $0

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $0

  • 15 · Royalties

    total $0

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $0

  • 17 · Travel

    total $12,106 · program services $8,299 · management and general $3,807

  • 18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials

    total $0

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $5,041 · program services $825 · management and general $4,216

  • 20 · Interest

    total $0

  • 21 · Payments to affiliates

    total $0

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $903 · management and general $903

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $2,250 · management and general $2,250

  • 24a · Other expenses: Meals and Refreshments

    total $32,329 · program services $2,273 · fundraising $30,056

  • 24b · Other expenses: Room Rentals and AV

    total $22,092 · fundraising $22,092

  • 24c · Other expenses: Miscellaneous

    total $7,126 · program services $7,110 · management and general $16

  • 24d · Other expenses: Supplies, Materials & Software

    total $6,105 · management and general $6,105

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $13,544 · program services $1,965 · management and general $6,195 · fundraising $5,384

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $490,322 · end of year $281,040

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    end of year $0

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $100,000 · end of year $0

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    end of year $0

  • 5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people

    end of year $0

  • 6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons

    end of year $0

  • 7 · Other notes and loans receivable

    end of year $0

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    end of year $0

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    end of year $0

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $12,648

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $10,393

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $3,157 · end of year $2,255

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    end of year $0

  • 12 · Investments: other securities

    beginning of year $5,024,581 · end of year $5,156,483

  • 13 · Investments: program-related

    end of year $0

  • 14 · Intangible assets

    end of year $0

  • 15 · Other assets

    end of year $0

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $734,186 · end of year $509,800

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $4,883,874 · end of year $4,929,978

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

The William D Ruckelshaus Center Foundation exists for the purpose of supporting the programs, initiatives, and properties associated with the William D. Ruckelshaus Center, a joint project of the University of Washington and Washington State University. The mission of the Center is to act as a neutral resource for collaborative problem solving. Its aim is to provide expertise that improves the availability and quality of voluntary collaborative approaches to policy development and multi-party dispute resolution.

  • Collaborative Capacity Building Initiative:The purpose of this initiative is to help individuals and organizations to better understand, initiate, participate in, and lead collaborative public policy efforts. It plays a vital role in fulfulling the Center's mission and vision to build the knowledge, skills, and relationships for collaborative governance in Washington State and the Pacific Northwest.

    Expenses $126,600

  • Learning from Responses to COVID-19:COVID-19 response and recovery efforts require effective crisis decision-making and further innovation to address critical needs, policy challenges, and infrastructure gaps. To address this need, the Center initiated the pre-assessment and comprehensive learning effort to identify and share key insights from Washington state's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Expenses $77,457

As filed on the 2023 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Megan Clubb

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3
  • Mack L Hogans

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3
  • Sandra Archibald

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3
  • Cindy Zehnder

    Alt Officer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3
  • WSU Foundation

    Inst. Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Nick Dolce

    Asst Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
12 May 2025
IRS schema version
2023v6.0
Source object
202541329349302659

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