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SPOKANE INDEPENDENT METRO BUSINESS ALLIANCE

EIN 82-4824582 SPOKANE, WA

Largest nonprofits in Washington

Revenue 2025
$474,205
Expenses 2025
$405,239

Program services were 93.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
S30
Classification
1000
Street
25 W MAIN AVE C1

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

SIMBA is a 501c3 non-profit creating a strong, locally-focused economy in Spokane and Eastern Washington through organizing, education, direct support, and advocacy to entrepreneurs, small business owners, and consumers.

  • SIMBA provides business and consumer membership services, technical assistance, and low-cost registered agent and virtual mailing services to support independent and local Eastern Washington businesses. Members receive business consultations, networking and social events, advertising, marketing, business planning, discount services, and access to resources that strengthen local economies. Since 2020, SIMBA has provided one-on-one business support and group trainings to over 900 Eastern Washington small businesses, including at least 80 that are BIPOC-, women-, veteran-, LGBTQIA2S+, and immigrant/refugee-owned. Registered agent and virtual mailing services include receipt and scanning of official mail and scam protection. Membership revenue supports SIMBA's mission and general operations while providing members with high-quality services, products, and opportunities.

    Expenses $241,383 · Revenue $19,472

  • Fiscal Sponsorship: SIMBA provides access to grant funding and donations for emerging nonprofit and for-profit businesses in Eastern Washington. As a fiscal sponsor, SIMBA allows emerging nonprofits and community focused for-profit entities to apply for grants and receive donations through the support of an existing 501(c)(3). We travel grant revenue and income, process tax receipts, and provide other necessary services to allow those entities to access funds otherwise unavailable to them.

    Expenses $92,717 · Grants $60,153 · Revenue $1,000

  • Live Local INW (LLINW) was created by the Spokane Independent Metro Business Alliance (SIMBA) to promote the advantages of patronizing independent and locally-owned businesses across Spokane and Eastern Washington, including keeping money in our communities by supporting small businesses. LLINW is a directory and marketplace of independent, locally-owned businesses in Eastern Washington.

    Expenses $43,382 · Revenue $1,071

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Robin Haynes

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $83,235
    From this org
    $83,235
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    45

  • Juan Mas

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.88

  • Chrystal Gonzalez

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.15

  • Kathy Thamm

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.35

  • Edward Reese

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jeff Ferguson

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David Borrelli

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Joshua Thomas

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.15

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $474,205
    Expenses
    $405,239
    Contributions
    $465,196
    Grants paid
    $97,994
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $315,469
    Expenses
    $406,796
    Contributions
    $297,639
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Grants made

  • Vertical Elements Ent

    $16,625

    2025 Fiscal Sponsorship

  • Live From Somewhere Studios

    $10,972

    2025 Fiscal Sponsorship

  • MAS Othello

    $10,450

    2025 Fiscal Sponsorship

  • Finding Common Ground Init

    $8,011

    2025 Fiscal Sponsorship

  • Spokane Cocktail Week

    $5,985

    2025 Fiscal Sponsorship

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.