Washington · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR ETHICAL LEADERSHIP
CENTER FOR ETHICAL LEADERSHIP (Washington) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $280,340 to it, the largest being Communities Rise ($115,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $79k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $280k
- Net assets
- $-8758
What Center for Ethical Leadership does
Mission
Cultivates leadership and builds capacity for change, helping communities tap collective wisdom in service of the common good.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Consulting and leadership development - cel continues to cultivate leaders who choose a "we-all" worldview. We provide people practical and proven tools to convene people with different perspectives and make decisions on behalf of the common good. Our programs and services continue to cultivate and inspire leaders to advance social, environmental and economic justice through a values-based leadership approach. This year we build on developing leaders who serve in community, prek-12, environment, public health, and higher education. We spoke on self-care, community development, strategic planning, healing, team development, and ways to create spaces where those with polarizing views can engage in healthy ways. We guide people to identify their core values and practice living into them in all parts of their lives. And we provided them with tools to support organizational culture development, convene diverse perspectives, heal/restore relationships, resolve challenges, develop leadership skills, and strengthen teams.
$66,532 spent$23,280 earned by the program60% of program spendingBuilding community - as leaders we model a way of being to inspire and lead those around us. We are humbled to be invited to present our values-based leadership practices that advance the common good at conferences focusing on youth development, public health, and peace. We apply our approach to help institutions create more equitable policies in education, public health, and local jurisdictions.
$22,177 spent20% of program spendingValues-based leadership stewards program - since cel's founding, its purpose is to inspire and prepare leaders to lead collaboratively and joyfully with a commitment to personal integrity and social justice for all. The values-based leadership stewards program takes participants on a deep and transforming two-part journey -- the internal work of personal growth and development and the external work of social action. It provides leaders with practices and an approach to bring people with different perspectives together and develop solutions for their part of the common good.
$22,177 spent20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $110,886.
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 2018 to 2019, from $158k to $43k (−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.
71% of CENTER FOR ETHICAL LEADERSHIP’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Alice Fong
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $100k → $26k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 CENTER FOR ETHICAL LEADERSHIP’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
CENTER FOR ETHICAL LEADERSHIP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
99% 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 CENTER FOR ETHICAL LEADERSHIP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 86% · 2022 100% · 2023 97% — 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.
Where its funders are
99% of CENTER FOR ETHICAL LEADERSHIP's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $63k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
CENTER FOR ETHICAL LEADERSHIP's revenue fell 72% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like CENTER FOR ETHICAL LEADERSHIP
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
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 CENTER FOR ETHICAL LEADERSHIP: 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 CENTER FOR ETHICAL LEADERSHIP?
- CENTER FOR ETHICAL LEADERSHIP (Washington) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $280,340 to it, the largest being Communities Rise ($115,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR ETHICAL LEADERSHIP have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $280,340 in grants to CENTER FOR ETHICAL LEADERSHIP, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR ETHICAL LEADERSHIP?
- Communities Rise is the largest funder on record, with $115,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR ETHICAL LEADERSHIP 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 2017–2024), 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