Washington · Nonprofit
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF TACOMA
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF TACOMA (Washington) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,787,598 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF WASHINGTON STATE ($578,604). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $475k
What Communities in Schools of Tacoma does
Mission
Our mission is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. Many of the young people we serve are facing challenges both inside and outside the classroom. What sets communities in schools apart is the way we coordinate a comprehensive range of services to support all the needs of these students, academic and non-academic, so they come to school ready to learn. Every child has tremendous potential. We help students unlock their abilities and talents, giving them a brighter future. The model we use to provide these services places a communities in schools site coordinator in a school to assess needs, make a plan, and coordinate intensive interventions for the kids most at risk for dropping out, along with services geared to the entire school. The site coordinator works with local community service partners such as social service agencies, businesses, health care providers and volunteers to connect students with needed resources.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
School support/case management program includes all star readers, power up teen leadership and free253. School-based integrated student support specialists empower students to stay in school through individualized access to needed resources. Iss specialists provide ongoing encouragement and guidance to build confidence to reach their potential and achieve their dreams. Communities in Schools of Tacoma provides students at each school site with 3 tiers of support. The level of services provided to students is based on the early warning indicators to support students. Free253 (forgive, restore, empower, elevate) is Communities in Schools of Tacoma's targeted youth violence prevention and intervention initiative, designed to support students most impacted by - or at risk of - violence and system involvement. Embedded within the school-based integrated student supports model, free253 provides intensive, relationship-driven case management, small-group programming, and coordinated referrals to behavioral health and community resources. Students are identified through school and community partnerships using indicators such as behavioral incidents, peer associations, and justice system…
$767,659 spentof which $95,797 as grants73% of program spendingCommunity support events program includes stuff the bus and winter wish. Stuff the bus is a school supply drive and back to school fundraising campaign. Every year Communities in Schools of Tacoma partners with local business and organizations to assist in obtaining new school supplies for 1,500+ students within tacoma public schools. Winter wish event is designed to keep students and their sibling warm through those cold winter months by providing coats, gloves, hats, and blankets.
$282,312 spentof which $269,482 as grants27% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,049,971.
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 2023 to 2024, from $555k to $421k (−24%).
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 15% · 2018 26% · 2019 5% · 2020 1% · 2021 39% · 2022 7% · 2023 38% · 2024 26% · 2025 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF TACOMA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $93k → $400k.
5 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 TACOMA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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 TACOMA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
70% 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 TACOMA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 41% · 2019 51% · 2020 28% · 2021 41% · 2022 36% · 2023 44% — 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
50% of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF TACOMA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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 SCHOOLS OF TACOMA's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $150k 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.
Against its field
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF TACOMA has grown faster 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 TACOMA
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
75% 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 TACOMA?
- COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF TACOMA (Washington) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,787,598 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF WASHINGTON STATE ($578,604). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF TACOMA have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $1,787,598 in grants to COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF TACOMA, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF TACOMA?
- COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF WASHINGTON STATE is the largest funder on record, with $578,604 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF TACOMA 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 31 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