Washington · Nonprofit
BAINBRIDGE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
BAINBRIDGE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,624,476 to it, the largest being BAINBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($348,281). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $967k
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $242k
What Bainbridge Schools Foundation does
Mission
Raising community funds to ensure every bainbridge student receives an exceptional education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provide pass-through funding to bainbridge island school district including professional development for new educators; provide funds for academic intervention programs for students k-12, including reading club, achieve, and graduation support; provide funds for social-emotional learning curriculum and programming.
$455,000 spentof which $455,000 as grants89% of program spendingProvide donor designated restricted pass-through funding.
$56,164 spentof which $56,164 as grants11% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $511,164.
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. 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 2020 to 2021, from $396k to $109k (−73%).
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: 2017 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of BAINBRIDGE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 14 funders to 12 funders, grant income fell $185k → $152k.
10 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 BAINBRIDGE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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
BAINBRIDGE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
93% 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 BAINBRIDGE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 32% · 2019 22% · 2020 25% · 2021 30% · 2022 32% · 2023 22% — 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
42% of BAINBRIDGE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
70% of BAINBRIDGE SCHOOLS 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 $492k that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
BAINBRIDGE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,450 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BAINBRIDGE SCHOOLS 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
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BAINBRIDGE SCHOOLS 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 BAINBRIDGE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION?
- BAINBRIDGE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,624,476 to it, the largest being BAINBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($348,281). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BAINBRIDGE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $1,624,476 in grants to BAINBRIDGE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BAINBRIDGE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION?
- BAINBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $348,281 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BAINBRIDGE SCHOOLS 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 31 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