Washington · Nonprofit
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL OF FEDERAL WAY
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL OF FEDERAL WAY (Washington) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,043,303 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF WASHINGTON STATE ($552,023). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $31k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $0
What Communities in School of Federal Way does
Mission
To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Communities in School of Federal Way - highline works to strengthen the educational opportunities for students in the federal way school district. The focus over the past year has been as follows:continuing to provide a wide range of supports for students and families during the covid pandemic, including mentoring, support for virtual learning, and basic needs supports. Increasing the amount of basic needs support, such as food, ppe and other supplies, access to internet and utility and rent assistance to meet increased community needs. Collaboration with other organizations in the community to support underserved children, youth and families.the entity merged with communities in school of south king county during the current fiscal year.
$454,507 spentof which $431,312 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $454,507.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $445k to $0 (−100%).
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 62% · 2021 64% · 2022 83% · 2023 91% · 2024 65% · 2025 50%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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
David De La Fuente
Interim executive director
Board chair
Amanda Santo
Board chair/president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $78k → $170k.
6 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL OF FEDERAL WAY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 11 of 13 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
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL OF FEDERAL WAY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
85% 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 COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL OF FEDERAL WAY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 55% · 2019 64% · 2020 42% · 2021 61% · 2022 87% · 2023 92% — 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
13% of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL OF FEDERAL WAY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
100% of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL OF FEDERAL WAY's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $99k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL OF FEDERAL WAY
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL OF FEDERAL WAY: 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 COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL OF FEDERAL WAY?
- COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL OF FEDERAL WAY (Washington) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,043,303 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF WASHINGTON STATE ($552,023). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL OF FEDERAL WAY have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,043,303 in grants to COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL OF FEDERAL WAY, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL OF FEDERAL WAY?
- COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF WASHINGTON STATE is the largest funder on record, with $552,023 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL OF FEDERAL WAY 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 13 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