Washington · Nonprofit
Consumer Education and Training Services
Consumer Education and Training Services (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $191,650 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR FINANCIAL PLANNING INC ($90,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $304k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $192k
- Net assets
- $413k
What Consumer Education and Training Services does
Mission
CENTS is a financial education nonprofit organization with a mission of helping people to improve their financial health. In 1995, CENTS was founded by the Honorable Karen A. Overstreet, the first women bankruptcy judge in the history of Washington, and veteran attorneys and financial professionals. All of CENTS programs are provided free-of-charge
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
DEBT SLAPPED CENTS designed a financial education curriculum to help high school students obtain critical information so they can make informed decisions about postsecondary education or training, The curriculum was used as the centerpiece of the statewide Student Loan Awareness Month SLAM campaign, which received a proclamation from Governor Jay Inslee. In the 2023-24 academic year, CENTS provided 84 Debt Slapped classes accross the state, focusing on areas with higher percentages of Latino/Latina/Latinix students, while enhancing the curriculum. www.debtslapped.org.
$157,888 spent86% of program spendingSENIOR MONEY CENTS partnered with Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson to create a project to help senior citizens identify and avoid scams. The project consists of in-person and virtual presentations educational videos articles written for the newsletters of senior citizens and further resources. CENTS wrote six articles and delivered two in-person presentions in 2024. www.seniormoneyproject.org.
$5,048 spent3% of program spendingProgram Service Expenses 1,182, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 DEBT CLINIC The Debt Clinic has continued to offer telephonic or remote assistance. CENTS helps recruit and train the volunteer attorneys for the King County Bar Associations Debt Clinic, which provides people the opportunity to speak to an experienced bankruptcy attorney free-of-charge for 30 minutes. In a typical year, the Debt Clinic helps approximately 500 people obtain pro bono legal advice. Program Service Expenses 5,585, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 CANCER AND FINANCES RESEARCH CENTS partnered with the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center the Hutch on several human-subjects research projects to study the impact a cancer diagnosis has on the physical, mental, and financial health of patients. The research projects provide the patients and their families with classes, counseling, educational videos and resources to mitigate negative outcomes from a cancer diagnosis and treatment. Program Service Expenses 1,719, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 MONEY STEPS CENTS partnered with the U.S. Probation and Pretrial Services to create a financial education reentry program for people who have experienced…
$20,624 spent11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $183,560.
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 2022 to 2023, from $326k to $430k (+32%).
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: 2019 54% · 2020 74% · 2021 23% · 2022 40% · 2023 18% · 2024 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of Consumer Education and Training Services’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $58k → $22k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 Consumer Education and Training Services’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
Consumer Education and Training Services leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 Consumer Education and Training Services.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 80% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 59% · 2023 68% — 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.
Where its funders are
Consumer Education and Training Services draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $24k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Consumer Education and Training Services holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Consumer Education and Training Services
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
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 Consumer Education and Training Services: 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 Consumer Education and Training Services?
- Consumer Education and Training Services (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $191,650 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR FINANCIAL PLANNING INC ($90,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Consumer Education and Training Services have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $191,650 in grants to Consumer Education and Training Services, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Consumer Education and Training Services?
- FOUNDATION FOR FINANCIAL PLANNING INC is the largest funder on record, with $90,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Consumer Education and Training Services 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 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