Washington · Nonprofit
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF PUYALLUP
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF PUYALLUP (Washington) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,680,972 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF WASHINGTON STATE ($585,606). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF PUYALLUP is better cushioned than half of the 15,926 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,926 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.
- Foundation for Tacoma Studentsshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Woodworth Family Foundationshared funderslocal
- Communities in Schools of North Carolina Incportfolio 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 5% · 2018 22% · 2019 22% · 2020 20% · 2021 39% · 2022 55% · 2023 59% · 2024 40% · 2025 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF PUYALLUP’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $20k → $387k.
3 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 PUYALLUP’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 19 of 20 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 PUYALLUP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
74% 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 PUYALLUP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 44% · 2019 44% · 2020 69% · 2021 43% · 2022 43% · 2023 48% — 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
38% of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF PUYALLUP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
86% of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF PUYALLUP's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $592k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
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. Your 20 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Foundation for Tacoma Studentsshared funderslocalportfolio matchWA · backs 44 organizations that share your funders · funds 95 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Woodworth Family Foundationshared funderslocalWA · backs 97 organizations that share your funders · funds 100 organizations near you
- Communities in Schools of North Carolina Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Credit Unions in the State of Washingtonportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Washington STEM Centerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Thrive Washingtonportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Philanthropy in Actionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Credit Unions in the State of Washington Peak Credit Unionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- College Spark Washingtonportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Oscar T and Olivann Hokold Foundationshared fundersWA · backs 41 organizations that share your funders
- Sequoia Foundationshared fundersWA · backs 60 organizations that share your funders
- Forest Foundationshared fundersWA · backs 61 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 COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF PUYALLUP
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
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 SCHOOLS OF PUYALLUP: 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 COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF PUYALLUP?
- COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF PUYALLUP (Washington) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,680,972 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF WASHINGTON STATE ($585,606). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF PUYALLUP have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,680,972 in grants to COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF PUYALLUP, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF PUYALLUP?
- COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF WASHINGTON STATE is the largest funder on record, with $585,606 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF PUYALLUP 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 20funders 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