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TACOMA COMMUNITY BOAT BUILDERS INC

EIN 46-1724422 TACOMA, WA

Revenue 2024
$1,759,490
Expenses 2024
$1,758,044

Program services were 85.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T30
Classification
1000
Street
1120 E D ST

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 · 2024

Mission

Tacoma Boat Builders TBB creates transformational opportunities for youth through positive mentorship woodworking and boat building. We pair youth with experienced craftspeople and together they create objects of functional beauty. By providing youth with a safe space to learn and grow including a mentor to learn from youth are given opportunities to build skills find creative outlets and most importantly increase their sense of safety and belonging.

  • Tacoma Boat Builders TBB was founded in 2014 in partnership with Pierce County Juvenile Court as a community-based alternative to traditional juvenile justice responses. Since then TBB has expanded to provide prevention-focused programs for young people ages 12-18 especially those at risk of system involvement. Through a strengths-based approach TBB fosters youth development with an emphasis on early intervention emotional resilience and positive decision-making. The demographics of youth served are reflective of the youth population in Pierce County. TBBs core programs offer hands-on learning opportunities in a fully equipped woodshop and on the water with youth supported by trained mentors and staff. Participants build skills develop self-advocacy and choose personalized activities--from crafting projects to boat-based experiences. Beyond these core offerings TBB provides individualized support for youth facing challenges including housing instability and justice system involvement. When needed TBB connects youth to trusted partner organizations for wraparound services. In 2024-25 TBB served 680 youth across all programs including 135 youth experiencing housing instability or court involvement. Community-based programs engaged an additional 544 children youth as well as approximately 54 adult caregivers at libraries parks and other public spaces. Guided by the Youth Program Quality Initiative YPQI TBB uses data-driven evaluation to ensure continuous improvement. Consistently high youth completion rates 85% overall and strong outcomes 91-100% demonstrate the programs positive impact on skill development connection and personal growth. Through our public facing programs designed for all ages and abilities we served 532 children youth and families. Programs included make and take popups at community events middle schools and libraries. From our facility we provided additional programs for youth families and other youth serving organizations through community boating and an intergenerational building together program. We also staff and support two Canoe Families for the annual Tribal Canoe Journey. These programs are low barrier create access and opportunity for all people in our community and align with tradition and history of our region.

    Expenses $647,333 · Revenue $5,421

  • Imagine Justice Project enrolled 20 AmeriCorps members who served 398 non-duplicated youth across 12 partner organizations. 18 AmeriCorps members successfully completed their full terms of service. Through Peace Point Imagine Justice Project directed a community-led taskforce composed of 10 community members and 5 violence prevention and public health experts and awarded six grants of 30,000 each to build capacity for organizations serving the highest risk youth in the Pierce County area.

    Expenses $860,143 · Grants $239,561 · Revenue $43,000

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Melissa Malott JD

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Sara Zier

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Jason Reddock

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Paul Birkey

    Founding Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Shannon A Shea

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $103,608
    From this org
    $92,030
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,578
    Hours/week
    40

  • Earl Borgert

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,759,490
    Expenses
    $1,758,044
    Contributions
    $1,706,230
    Grants paid
    $239,561
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,919,040
    Expenses
    $1,856,208
    Contributions
    $1,756,178
    Grants paid
    $115,429
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,553,756
    Expenses
    $1,609,193
    Contributions
    $1,459,235
    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.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $605,218
    Expenses
    $561,797
    Assets (EOY)
    $334,551

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $502,476
    Expenses
    $526,538
    Assets (EOY)
    $356,289

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $595,021
    Expenses
    $467,881
    Assets (EOY)
    $349,031

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $296,328
    Expenses
    $251,901
    Assets (EOY)
    $195,859

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $233,160
    Expenses
    $146,464
    Assets (EOY)
    $197,308

  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $116,144
    Expenses
    $87,172
    Assets (EOY)
    $106,032

  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $116,144
    Expenses
    $87,172
    Assets (EOY)
    $106,032

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.