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WASHINGTON PUBLIC AFFAIRS NETWORK

EIN 91-1597601 OLYMPIA, WA

Revenue 2024
$6,139,904
Expenses 2024
$5,095,328

Program services were 77.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A320
Classification
1000
Street
1058 CAPITOL WAY S

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

TO PROVIDE UNFILTERED, UNBIASED, GAVEL-TO-GAVEL COVERAGE OF WASHINGTON STATE GOVERNMENT, ALONG WITH COMPLEMENTARY PROGRAMMING, TO PROMOTE A HEALTHY AND ROBUST PUBLIC DISCOURSE, INCREASE CIVIC ACCESS AND ENGAGEMENT, AND FOSTER AN INFORMED CITIZENRY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

OFFERING UNEDITED COVERAGE OF WASHINGTON STATE GOVERNMENT, POLITICS, AND PUBLIC POLICY.

  • PROVIDES, THROUGH CABLE TELEVISION AND ITS WEBSITE, THE CITIZENS OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON WITH NON-PARTISAN TELEVISION COVERAGE OF STATE GOVERNMENT DELIBERATIONS AND PUBLIC POLICY EVENTS OF STATEWIDE SIGNIFICANCE. SERVICES AS A VIDEO ARCHIVIST OF PUBLIC RECORD AND MAINTAINS AN EXTENSIVE PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE ARCHIVE OF COVERAGE ON ITS WEBSITE.

    Expenses $3,951,990

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.

  • DENISE RENEE SINCLAIR

    PRESIDENT & CEO

    Total calculated
    $187,492
    From this org
    $165,059
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $22,433
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $165,059
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $8,524
    Nontaxable benefits
    $13,909
    Filer's total
    $187,492

  • SCOTT FREEMAN

    DIRECTOR - IT

    Total calculated
    $131,065
    From this org
    $116,606
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,459
    Hours/week
    40

  • STEVEN BAY

    VP - PROGRAMMING

    Total calculated
    $132,822
    From this org
    $114,356
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $18,466
    Hours/week
    40

  • MARC GERCHAK

    VP - ENGINEERING

    Total calculated
    $135,294
    From this org
    $106,625
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $28,669
    Hours/week
    40

  • BONNIE GERAY

    FINANCIAL OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $114,174
    From this org
    $107,445
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,729
    Hours/week
    40

  • MARTY BROWN

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOE DACCA

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BRIAHNA MURRAY

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHRIS MULICK

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KRAIG BAKER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHARLIE BROWN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SUSAN CHAMPLAIN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DUANE DAVIDSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LYN DENNIS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAVID DUCHARME

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DENNY ELIASON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KAREN FRASER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CARL GIPSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ANN GOOS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ERICA HALLOCK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • STEVE HOBBS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MIKE HOOVER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LYNN KESSLER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOCELYN MCCABE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CARMEN MENDEZ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

The first 25 listed. 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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $6,139,904
    Expenses
    $5,095,328
    Contributions
    $5,856,219
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,848,601
    Expenses
    $4,386,294
    Contributions
    $4,588,675
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $4,248,648
    Expenses
    $4,013,505
    Contributions
    $4,156,460
    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

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,716,580
    Expenses
    $3,740,265
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,929,484

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,778,065
    Expenses
    $4,177,758
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,056,263

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,874,712
    Expenses
    $4,112,574
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,948,628

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,854,867
    Expenses
    $3,963,836
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,864,261

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,378,796
    Expenses
    $3,746,193
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,580,713

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,279,406
    Expenses
    $3,475,995
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,483,601

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,185,031
    Expenses
    $3,042,868
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,338,438

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

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

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.