Washington · Nonprofit
CASCADE CONNECTIONS
CASCADE CONNECTIONS (Washington) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $211,963 to it, the largest being THRIVENT CHARITABLE IMPACT & INVESTING ($88,564). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $212k
- Net assets
- $5.7M
What Cascade Connections does
Mission
Cascade Connections' mission is: empowering individuals with developmental disabilities to enhance their quality of life. The mission is achieved through its statement of values which includes service excellence, integrity, empowerment, competence, christian leadership, servant leadership, equal opportunity, individualized services, and community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Residential and home care services - Cascade Connections residential services provide a wide range of services from a few hours per week to 24-hour care. Supports include daily living skills, personal care, shopping medical appointments, respite services, and more as the individual requires. Customers are referred to Cascade Connections through the developmental disabilities administration as well as the aging and adult services both are sub-departments of the washington state department of social and health services. Cascade Connections also accepts individuals on a private pay basis. Customers range greatly in age as well as requirements for service.
$13,574,578 spent$15,731,727 earned by the program79% of program spendingVocational services - Cascade Connections vocational department serves a range of individuals from transitioning students coming out of high school aged 21 years to those approaching retirement some of whom are over 70 years of age. The customers of Cascade Connections are referred to us through the division of vocational rehabilitation developmental disabilities administration department of services for the blind all of which fall under the washington state department of social and health services. Additionally, many are referred to us from foundational community support service groups. Cascade Connections serves a wide variety of individuals who have a variety of skills and abilities as well as support needs. Cascade Connections works with hundreds of local businesses throughout whatcom county assisting them to increase the diversity in their workforce. Cascade Connections offers information to employers, sets up informational and working interviews, negotiates reasonable accommodations when needed, and provide on-site training.
$3,436,602 spent$2,343,797 earned by the program20% of program spendingTraining services - Cascade Connections training department, created in 2012, offers many classes to Cascade Connections staff, other organizations, community members, and families. Classes include orientation and safety, cpr, first aid, right response, developmental disabilities, core population-specific trainings, and continuing education courses for professionals. Additionally, the Cascade Connections training site serves prometric's home care aide testing on site at our training center on designated testing dates. Cascade Connections have been able to create customized training, including online training to meet the needs of our customers and our community.
$171,830 spent$22,588 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $17,183,010.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $5.2M to $6.4M (+23%).
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: 2020 11% · 2021 0% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of CASCADE CONNECTIONS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
Allison Hill
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $10k → $27k.
4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 CASCADE CONNECTIONS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 9 of 10 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
CASCADE CONNECTIONS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
91% 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 CASCADE CONNECTIONS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 50% · 2021 97% · 2022 71% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
50% of CASCADE CONNECTIONS's funders are still giving 2 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
58% of CASCADE CONNECTIONS'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 $88k that is directly attributable, 77% of it comes from funders outside Washington, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $124k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
CASCADE CONNECTIONS is better cushioned than half of the 3,288 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,288 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding CASCADE CONNECTIONS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.6M on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$4.0M
- General Services Administration$1.6M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CASCADE CONNECTIONS
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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
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 CASCADE CONNECTIONS: 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 CASCADE CONNECTIONS?
- CASCADE CONNECTIONS (Washington) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $211,963 to it, the largest being THRIVENT CHARITABLE IMPACT & INVESTING ($88,564). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CASCADE CONNECTIONS have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $211,963 in grants to CASCADE CONNECTIONS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CASCADE CONNECTIONS?
- THRIVENT CHARITABLE IMPACT & INVESTING is the largest funder on record, with $88,564 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CASCADE CONNECTIONS 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 10 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