Washington · Nonprofit
COMPOSITE RECYCLING TECHNOLOGY CENTER
COMPOSITE RECYCLING TECHNOLOGY CENTER (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $167,216 to it, the largest being Builders Vision Foundation ($98,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.5M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $167k
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What Composite Recycling Technology Center does
Mission
Drive innovation to leverage the potential of undervalued materials and waste streams to create durable, environmentally conscious products that foster economic development.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
CERL - Construction Engineering Research Lab - Department of Defense contract for production of mass timber military housing
$2,160,000 spent$2,160,000 earned by the program49% of program spendingCEF5 - Clean Energy Fund 5- Increasing community resilience through sustainable practices in natural resource utilization to save energy and reduce cost of net zero/passive house manufacturing.
$275,000 spent$275,000 earned by the program6% of program spendingIndustrial Symbiosis - Research & development to use scrap wood fiber, plastic, and other waste streams as potential foundation or building block
$150,000 spent$150,000 earned by the program3% of program spendingOther program services include donations, product sales and engineering services.
$1,851,555 spent$1,884,810 earned by the program42% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,436,555.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $3.7M to $5.4M (+48%).
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: 2020 26% · 2021 24% · 2022 55% · 2023 59% · 2024 59% · 2025 58%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
65% of COMPOSITE RECYCLING TECHNOLOGY CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
Dave Walter
Chief Executive Officer
Board chair
Stephen VanDyck
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $50k → $138.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 COMPOSITE RECYCLING TECHNOLOGY CENTER’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
COMPOSITE RECYCLING TECHNOLOGY CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
COMPOSITE RECYCLING TECHNOLOGY CENTER draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19k 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.
Against its field
COMPOSITE RECYCLING TECHNOLOGY CENTER has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding COMPOSITE RECYCLING TECHNOLOGY CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.0M on record.
- Department of Commerce$1.2M
- Department of Defense$800k
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 COMPOSITE RECYCLING TECHNOLOGY CENTER
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
50%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMPOSITE RECYCLING TECHNOLOGY CENTER: 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 COMPOSITE RECYCLING TECHNOLOGY CENTER?
- COMPOSITE RECYCLING TECHNOLOGY CENTER (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $167,216 to it, the largest being Builders Vision Foundation ($98,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMPOSITE RECYCLING TECHNOLOGY CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $167,216 in grants to COMPOSITE RECYCLING TECHNOLOGY CENTER, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMPOSITE RECYCLING TECHNOLOGY CENTER?
- Builders Vision Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $98,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMPOSITE RECYCLING TECHNOLOGY CENTER 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 4 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