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NORTHSTAR ADVOCATES

EIN 87-1428320 SEATTLE, WA

Revenue 2025
$694,000
Expenses 2025
$432,457

Program services were 52.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
O01
Classification
1200
Street
PO BOX 22437

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

Preventing and ending youth homelessness by supporting young people, strengthening families and communities, and holding the systems designed to serve them accountable.

  • NorthStar Advocates is a leader in the state of Washington serving young people at the intersection of unaccompanied homelessness, system involvement, and the behavioral health crisis in our society. We made significant progress in 2025 in the design and implementation of HB 1929 to establish safe housing and services for young adults exiting an inpatient behavioral health treatment program. State data continue to show these young people at greatest risk of returning to homelessness within 30 days - 12 months upon exiting a system of care (foster care, juvenile rehabilitation and/or inpatient behavioral health treatment). NorthStar Advocates has provided training, consultation, and ongoing advocacy for the two programs in Washington state. During a very challenging budget crisis in Washington's legislature NorthStar Advocates advocated to protect the funding ensuring it remains in the state budget. We will collect relevant data to determine our advocacy agenda for expansion during the 2027 legislative session. Early data demonstrates NorthStar Advocates hypothesis was correct in that these young people do want to exit homelessness and are addressing their substance use disorder and/or mental health issues. This has resulted in young people securing safe housing, employment, educational goals and reconciliation with family and community. NorthStar Advocates has also sponsored a youth and young adult led behavioral health quarterly summit planning to be implemented in 2026.

    Expenses $225,122 · Grants $34,897

As filed on the 2025 return.

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.

  • Jim Theofelis

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $162,523
    From this org
    $162,523
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $162,523
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $162,523

  • Ros Ghan

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Laurie Lippold

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Daniel Lugo

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $694,000
    Expenses
    $432,457
    Contributions
    $694,000
    Grants paid
    $34,897
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $852,990
    Expenses
    $350,604
    Contributions
    $852,690
    Grants paid
    $22,272
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $642,440
    Expenses
    $229,120
    Contributions
    $642,440
    Grants paid
    $10,419
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $257,406
    Expenses
    $220,473
    Contributions
    $257,406
    Grants paid
    $5,738

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
    $142,100
    Expenses
    $70,316
    Assets (EOY)
    $74,595

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

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.