Washington · Nonprofit
188 FOUNDATION
188 FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $382,508 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($212,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $329k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $383k
- Net assets
- $15k
What 188 Foundation does
Mission
The 188 Foundation is a direct philanthropy alliance formed by our generous donors, concentrics elite network an innate capability, and our carefully curated partners. The foundation sits within a unique trifurcation of capability, access, and need. Due to our unique position, we believe its our moral responsibility and honor to assist those who need it most. Rescuing just one person creates perpetual ripples, affecting many. We inherently know that effort will always be worth it. When our donors commit to supporting 188, their donation is directly tied to a mission. Within days, we can provide faces of those rescued by our donors funds. We use less than 1 of our donations on overhead. When donations exceed rescue operations, we identify pivotal partners and enable their operations through financial support. We understand our capability is a very specific and unique part of humanitarian relief and are careful to consider, support, and respect what comes before and after our efforts.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Support gaza families - in march, we started our partnership with gaza sky geeks to enable exfiltration out of gaza. Gaza sky geeks used our 501(c)3 status to receive donations and we sent the funds to individuals in gaza. From march to august, we enabled 111 people out of gaza and into cairo. The border indefinitely closed in august. Since, we have sent $69,500 of the donated funds to contacts in gaza for the purchase of food, tents, diapers, and other basic necessities within gaza due to a lack of aid available in the region and goods are going for 10x their pre-war costs.
$66,835 spentof which $66,835 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $66,835.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $100k to $16k (−84%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
99% of 188 FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Jeff Baker
CEO
Board chair
Roderick Jones
Executive chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
5 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of 188 FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
188 FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
89% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund 188 FOUNDATION.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
89% of 188 FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $42k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, across 2 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $341k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
188 FOUNDATION's revenue fell 35% between 2022 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like 188 FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for 188 FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds 188 FOUNDATION?
- 188 FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $382,508 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($212,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does 188 FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $382,508 in grants to 188 FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of 188 FOUNDATION?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $212,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like 188 FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 7 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing