Washington · Nonprofit
COMPASS HOUSING ALLIANCE
COMPASS HOUSING ALLIANCE (Washington) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,649,904 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,525,575). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $21M
- Funders on record
- 69
- Grants received
- $6.6M
- Net assets
- $22M
What Compass Housing Alliance does
Mission
Compass Housing Alliance develops and provides essential services, shelter, and affordable housing so that everyone in our community has a safe place to call home.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Housing services: compass provides affordable supportive housing to individuals, families and veterans who have experienced homelessness, or live far below the federal and local poverty lines. Our apartment buildings are located throughout king county. Many of our buildings arestaffed 24 hours a day to meet the needs of the most vulnerable in our region. Most of our units are eligible to those who are 30-50% below area median income.
$10,125,221 spentof which $755,875 as grants$2,716,358 earned by the program60% of program spendingEmergency services: compass is enhanced shelter provider that supplies basic needs to those who are experiencing homelessness or housing instability. We offer access to beds and staffing 24/7, meals, hygiene (shower & laundry), case management, mental health 2x week from outsideproviders. We offer 222 beds for male and female identifying adults 18 and older. Compass supports those who are experiencing homelessness, housing instability, low income and housed individuals and families. We offer mail services to allow participants to have an address to receive all types of mail. This establishes an address for outside service providers to receive government services, state and federal for example tanf, food stamps, medicare and medicaid, veteran benefits. Our compass 210 center allows participants to walk in and receive case management, meals, mental health services, relief from heat or cold weather, restrooms, shower, laundry as well as access to a computer with a printer.
$6,815,753 spentof which $984,419 as grants$296,586 earned by the program40% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $16,940,974.
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 $37M to $40M (+7%).
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 56% · 2018 54% · 2019 49% · 2020 66% · 2021 59% · 2022 63% · 2023 72% · 2024 78%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of COMPASS HOUSING ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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
David Duea
Director, CEO lcsnw
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 32 funders, grant income fell $794k → $665k.
15 of 69 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 COMPASS HOUSING ALLIANCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 69 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
COMPASS HOUSING ALLIANCE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 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 COMPASS HOUSING ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 76% · 2019 45% · 2020 33% · 2021 30% · 2022 19% · 2023 22% — 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
54% of COMPASS HOUSING ALLIANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
72% of COMPASS HOUSING ALLIANCE's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
COMPASS HOUSING ALLIANCE's revenue grew 40% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 818 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding COMPASS HOUSING ALLIANCE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.5M on record — $5.5M federal, $167 state.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$5.5M
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $167
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 COMPASS HOUSING ALLIANCE
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
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 15 related entities
- Compass Roxbury LLC · disregarded
- Angle Lake LP Interest LLC · disregarded
- Compass Center - Pioneer Square LLC · disregarded
- Compass Center Housing Development · exempt
- Lutheran Community Services Northwest · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMPASS HOUSING ALLIANCE: 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 COMPASS HOUSING ALLIANCE?
- COMPASS HOUSING ALLIANCE (Washington) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,649,904 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,525,575). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMPASS HOUSING ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 69 organizations giving $6,649,904 in grants to COMPASS HOUSING ALLIANCE, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMPASS HOUSING ALLIANCE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,525,575 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMPASS HOUSING ALLIANCE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 69 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