Washington · Nonprofit
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL OF WHATCOM SKAGIT
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL OF WHATCOM SKAGIT (Washington) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,936,829 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF WASHINGTON STATE ($912,061). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $690k
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Communities in School of Whatcom Skagit does
Mission
The mission of communities in schools of whatcom skagit is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. As a washington state not-for-profit organization dedicated to diversity, equity, and inclusion in public education, we serve students through our unique integrated student support (iss) model. The focus of that model is on assisting children and youth (k-12) through multi-tiered support systems that improve attendance and elicit student resilience, school belonging, and parent engagement. Despite the many barriers created by the covid-19 pandemic, communities in schools of whatcom skagit differentiated itself from other organizations supporting vulnerable and often isolated and/or marginalized youth by providing services during school hours, and by coordinating a comprehensive range of basic needs and other vital, mental health services for each and every student referred to the program. The key innovative services provided were delivered through a blend of in-person, and "tele-mentoring or "tele-case management" platforms. 15 full-time site coordinators were empowered with technology support and were placed inside 15…
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Our annual organizational efforts provide low-income (and extremely low income) students and their families with basic needs, resources, resiliency-building efforts, and social-emotional interventions, along with caring expertise that surrounds students with a community of support, empowering them to succeed in school and life. We served 383 case-managed students at 15 schools across six school districts, in four elementary schools, seven middle schools, and four high schools. 15 site coordinators provided 4,388 hours of tier 1 whole school supports, 2,065 hours of tier 2 small group supports and 2,137 hours of tier 3 one-on-one individual supports. A very important tier 1 support we provide students is basic needs items and we provide 32,077 items during the ay 24-25.
$986,869 spent$225,222 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $986,869.
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.
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 $1.9M to $1.3M (−31%).
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 13% · 2024 65% · 2025 39%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
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
Melinda Herrera
Executive director
Board chair
Nahrin Aziz
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $23k → $160k.
4 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 WHATCOM SKAGIT’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
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL OF WHATCOM SKAGIT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
73% 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 WHATCOM SKAGIT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 40% · 2019 56% · 2020 23% · 2021 43% · 2022 26% · 2023 79% — 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
29% of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL OF WHATCOM SKAGIT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
96% of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL OF WHATCOM SKAGIT's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $47k 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.
Organizations like COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL OF WHATCOM SKAGIT
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
68% 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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL OF WHATCOM SKAGIT?
- COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL OF WHATCOM SKAGIT (Washington) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,936,829 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF WASHINGTON STATE ($912,061). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL OF WHATCOM SKAGIT have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,936,829 in grants to COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL OF WHATCOM SKAGIT, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL OF WHATCOM SKAGIT?
- COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF WASHINGTON STATE is the largest funder on record, with $912,061 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL OF WHATCOM SKAGIT 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 25 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