Washington · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR STRENGTHENING THE TEACHING PROFESSION
CENTER FOR STRENGTHENING THE TEACHING PROFESSION (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $208,098 to it, the largest being COLLEGE SPARK WASHINGTON ($100,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CENTER FOR STRENGTHENING THE TEACHING PROFESSION's revenue fell 18% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- South Seattle College Foundationshared funders
- The Nea Foundation for the Improvement of Educationportfolio match
- Educauseportfolio match
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.
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 93% · 2018 94% · 2019 79% · 2020 77% · 2021 89% · 2022 97% · 2023 96% · 2024 94% · 2025 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of CENTER FOR STRENGTHENING THE TEACHING PROFESSION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $17.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 STRENGTHENING THE TEACHING PROFESSION’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 STRENGTHENING THE TEACHING PROFESSION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 66% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of CENTER FOR STRENGTHENING THE TEACHING PROFESSION's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $98 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- South Seattle College Foundationshared fundersWA · backs 9 organizations that share your funders
- The Nea Foundation for the Improvement of Educationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Educauseportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bellwether Education Partners Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tntp Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Center for Black Educator Developmentportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- LEV Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Learning Policy Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Education Association of the United Statesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Campaign for Great Public Schoolsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Accelerate Great Schoolsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Seattle Prof Engineering Employees Assn Dba Soc of Prof Eng Empl in Aerospaceshared fundersWA · backs 9 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like CENTER FOR STRENGTHENING THE TEACHING PROFESSION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 STRENGTHENING THE TEACHING PROFESSION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTER FOR STRENGTHENING THE TEACHING PROFESSION?
- CENTER FOR STRENGTHENING THE TEACHING PROFESSION (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $208,098 to it, the largest being COLLEGE SPARK WASHINGTON ($100,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR STRENGTHENING THE TEACHING PROFESSION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $208,098 in grants to CENTER FOR STRENGTHENING THE TEACHING PROFESSION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR STRENGTHENING THE TEACHING PROFESSION?
- COLLEGE SPARK WASHINGTON is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR STRENGTHENING THE TEACHING PROFESSION 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 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing