Washington · Nonprofit
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF BENTON-FRANKLI
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF BENTON-FRANKLI (Washington) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,294,060 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,001,100). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $4.3M
- Net assets
- $4.0M
What Communities in Schools of Benton-Frankli 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
Service delivery - implementing the communities in schools model of integrated student supports within benton and franklin counties. Services were provided in richland, kennewick, pasco, prosser, and finley school districts by 28 student support coordinators at 28 schools. A total of 17,125 students received school-wide services, 1,777 students received case-managed support, and 11,502 parents were engaged. Student goal outcomes included 75% improved academic performance, 67% improved attendance, and 69% improved behavior. In '24-'25, we have used the data to inform our work and, in partnership with school districts and community partners, have implemented a variety of social-emotional supports.
$2,687,661 spentof which $285,424 as grants$35,850 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,687,661.
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 2021 to 2022, from $2.2M to $4.2M (+94%).
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 5% · 2021 16% · 2022 9% · 2023 2% · 2024 11% · 2025 58%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF BENTON-FRANKLI’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
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
Lupe Mares-Rojas
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $7k → $1.0M.
7 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 SCHOOLS OF BENTON-FRANKLI’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 21 of 22 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 SCHOOLS OF BENTON-FRANKLI leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
96% 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 SCHOOLS OF BENTON-FRANKLI.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 53% · 2020 53% · 2021 68% · 2022 92% · 2023 73% — 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.
How long its funders stay
22% of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF BENTON-FRANKLI's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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
99% of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF BENTON-FRANKLI's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.1M 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
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF BENTON-FRANKLI holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF BENTON-FRANKLI
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF BENTON-FRANKLI?
- COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF BENTON-FRANKLI (Washington) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,294,060 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,001,100). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF BENTON-FRANKLI have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $4,294,060 in grants to COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF BENTON-FRANKLI, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF BENTON-FRANKLI?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,001,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF BENTON-FRANKLI 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 22 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