Washington · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION
COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION (Washington) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,124,535 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($471,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.3M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What Community Day School Association does
Mission
Lead the charge to brilliant outcomes for the children of our community by ensuring equitable access to the highest quality learning and care.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community Day School Association, doing business as launch, was founded in 1977 as a washington nonprofit corporation dedicated to providing high-quality enrichment programming for children ages 3-12. Launch's first site opened at montlake elementary within the seattle public schools (sps) system. The organization expanded to leschi elementary in 1988, hawthorne elementary in 1995, and madrona elementary in 1997, and broadened its scope in 2000 with the opening of its first preschool at leschi elementary.(see additional description continued on schedule o)__in the 2024-2025 school year, launch operated eleven school-age programs (before- and after-school programs and summer learning) at ten sps elementary schools in central, southeast, and west seattle-beacon hill, hawthorne, highland park, kimball, leschi, madrona, maple, montlake, wing luke, and sanislo-as well as a program at its newest location in renton at cascade vista, co-located on the impact public schools black river elementary campus.during 2024-2025, launch operated nine preschool classrooms: one each at beacon hill, highland park, and cascade vista; two at madrona; one at rainier community center; one at delridge…
$6,733,459 spent$7,952,115 earned by the program100% of program spendingLaunch's tuition assistance program, which enables students to attend launch's program at a reduced rate, is available for students with financial need. The amount of tuition assistance available varies annually depending on launch's budget constraints and donor support. Private pay tuition is reported in the financial statements net of this assistance. Total tuition assistance awarded by launch was $176,490 in 2025 and $189,001 in 2024. In both years, there were no donor-restricted contributions with tuition assistance as a purpose restriction.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,733,459.
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 2019 to 2020, from $3.4M to $4.7M (+38%).
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 0% · 2021 26% · 2022 21% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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.
Chief executive
Laura Nicholson
Chief executive officer
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 $98k → $271k.
4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION’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
COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
94% 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 COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 100% · 2019 97% · 2020 82% · 2021 62% · 2022 39% · 2023 46% — 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
17% of COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
54% of COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION'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 $513k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $612k 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
COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION is better cushioned than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION?
- COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION (Washington) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,124,535 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($471,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,124,535 in grants to COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION?
- SEATTLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $471,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION 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 15 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing