Washington · Nonprofit
COYOTE CENTRAL
COYOTE CENTRAL (Washington) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,208,677 to it, the largest being M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST ($399,500). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 55
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $3.4M
What Coyote Central does
Mission
Coyote sparks creativity in young people, putting tools in their hands to build skills and forge their futures.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Studio coyote engaged over 1,000 youth ages 10 to 15 with professional artists, filmmakers, chefs, furniture makers, fashion designers, music producers, animators, dancers, jewelers, writers, and more. Participants learned hands-on skills and drew on their personal and cultural identitiies to design individual projects. Coyote also partnered with local schools to provide enrichment during the school day. Studio coyote engages youth of wildly different backgrounds in race, culture, economic status, family situation, and abilities in a culture of mutual respect and collaborative discovery. Over half of studio coyote enrollments every year are by youth who identify as people of color. Every course is offered on a pay-what-works-for-you basis, with no limits to the number of amount of tuition assistance per
$593,896 spent98% of program spendingCre8 is a 3 year program for 6th-8th graders. It is designed to build community amongst a cohort of deeply creative kids and provide a deeper dive into the creative process. Cre8 1st year is all about individual growth as an artist. Cre8 2nd year is about group growth as artists who collaborate on work for the public. Cre8 3rd year is about a deep dive exploration of personal creativity. Each student levels-up for one final, year long project supported by a 1:1 mentor in the medium.
$2,534 spent0% of program spendingThe public art program engages youth with professional artists to create art works for their community, building social awareness and the pride of community stewardship in our future leaders. Public art projects take place throughout the year.
$7,497 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $603,927.
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 2017 to 2018, from $2.6M to $3.3M (+27%).
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 3% · 2018 3% · 2019 20% · 2020 6% · 2021 47% · 2022 17% · 2023 13% · 2024 28% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
53% of COYOTE CENTRAL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $115k → $240k.
10 of 55 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 COYOTE CENTRAL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 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
COYOTE CENTRAL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
49% 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 COYOTE CENTRAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 38% · 2019 30% · 2020 48% · 2021 15% · 2022 25% · 2023 26% — 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
31% of COYOTE CENTRAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
75% of COYOTE CENTRAL's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $830k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
COYOTE CENTRAL's funding base is broadening — from 11 funders to 18 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like COYOTE CENTRAL
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
53% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 COYOTE CENTRAL: 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 COYOTE CENTRAL?
- COYOTE CENTRAL (Washington) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,208,677 to it, the largest being M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST ($399,500). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COYOTE CENTRAL have?
- IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $2,208,677 in grants to COYOTE CENTRAL, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COYOTE CENTRAL?
- M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $399,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COYOTE CENTRAL 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 55 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