Washington · Nonprofit
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF WASHINGTON STATE
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF WASHINGTON STATE (Washington) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,374,977 to it, the largest being Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund ($6,331,800). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF WASHINGTON STATE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 324 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 324 unclassified nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.
- Discuren Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- NW Childrens Foundationshared funders
- Communities in Schoolsportfolio 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: 2022 2% · 2023 65% · 2024 28% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF WASHINGTON STATE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (71% 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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $70k → $2.7M.
8 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 78% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $3.7M from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Communities in Schools of Washington State). These are real filings, and they are not money COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF WASHINGTON STATE raised.
From the IRS filings of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF WASHINGTON STATE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 20 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 WASHINGTON STATE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 WASHINGTON STATE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 100% · 2019 96% · 2020 96% · 2021 92% · 2022 64% · 2023 60% — 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 WASHINGTON STATE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
78% of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF WASHINGTON STATE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2.5M that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 statesis 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 22 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Discuren Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchWA · backs 58 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- NW Childrens Foundationshared fundersWA · backs 90 organizations that share your funders
- Communities in Schoolsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Washington STEM Centerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Communities in Schools of North Carolina Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stanley and Jolene Sloter Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- College Success Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- StriveTogether Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kismet 805 Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cityschools Collaborativeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- America's Promise the Alliance for Youthportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Credit Unions in the State of Washingtonportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Government funding COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF WASHINGTON STATE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $925k on record.
- Department of Education$925k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF WASHINGTON STATE
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF WASHINGTON STATE: 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 WASHINGTON STATE?
- COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF WASHINGTON STATE (Washington) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,374,977 to it, the largest being Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund ($6,331,800). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF WASHINGTON STATE have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $11,374,977 in grants to COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF WASHINGTON STATE, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF WASHINGTON STATE?
- Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund is the largest funder on record, with $6,331,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF WASHINGTON STATE 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 22funders 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