Washington · Nonprofit
ASSOCIATED RECREATION COUNCIL
ASSOCIATED RECREATION COUNCIL (Washington) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,878,252 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($844,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $8.0M
What Associated Recreation Council does
Mission
Inspire engagement and participation in equitable, dynamic, culturally relevant, and responsive recreation, childcare, and lifelong learning programs. Vision: bringing together all people to build a healthy community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Recreation: exempt purpose is to offer low-cost or free recreation program delivery across the city of seattle. We continue to partner with the city of seattle spr to offer recreational and educational activities in twenty-six (26) community centers, sponsored multiple capital improvements projects in seattle parks & recreation facilities, operated recreation enhancement programs in nine elementary schools during 2024. Arc continues to develop enhanced scholarship funding opportunities, so the inability to pay ceases to be a barrier to healthier lifestyles and learning opportunities.
$6,778,005 spentof which $1,060,527 as grants$1,670,343 earned by the program48% of program spendingChildcare: low cost out of school care, preschool, and summer day camp. Among other accomplishments, arc continues to raise the standard for our preschool programs with a creative curriculum; in the same vein, we continue to incorporate the higher standards of sapqa (school age program quality assessment) initiative in our school-age care programs.
$5,926,868 spentof which $119,000 as grants$9,772,444 earned by the program42% of program spendingThe preschool program became a stand-alone program on 1/1/17. There are four preschool programs across the system where four of those programs have become licensed programs through spp (seattle preschool program), and two of the programs became pathways programs through deel (department of education and early learning) during 2024. Spp offers free preschool as a school readiness program for families who have economic barriers to enrolling.
$1,414,347 spent$1,437,930 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $14,119,220.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $8.1M to $11M (+40%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 5% · 2019 9% · 2020 23% · 2021 38% · 2022 28% · 2023 27% · 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Jackie Jaingahyllseth
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $105k → $243k.
8 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 ASSOCIATED RECREATION COUNCIL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 funders by total. 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
ASSOCIATED RECREATION COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
86% 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 ASSOCIATED RECREATION COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 45% · 2019 38% · 2020 44% · 2021 59% · 2022 45% · 2023 37% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
24% of ASSOCIATED RECREATION COUNCIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
74% of ASSOCIATED RECREATION COUNCIL'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 $489k that is directly attributable, 63% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Organizations like ASSOCIATED RECREATION COUNCIL
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ASSOCIATED RECREATION COUNCIL: 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 ASSOCIATED RECREATION COUNCIL?
- ASSOCIATED RECREATION COUNCIL (Washington) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,878,252 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($844,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ASSOCIATED RECREATION COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $1,878,252 in grants to ASSOCIATED RECREATION COUNCIL, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASSOCIATED RECREATION COUNCIL?
- SEATTLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $844,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASSOCIATED RECREATION COUNCIL 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 32 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing