Washington · Nonprofit
DENISE LOUIE EDUCATION CENTER
DENISE LOUIE EDUCATION CENTER (Washington) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,822,999 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ($666,757). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $10.0M
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $3.8M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Denise Louie Education Center does
Mission
Denise Louie Education Center (dlec) promotes school and life readiness by providing early learning services to children and families, especially those who need our services the most.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Dlec provides free home visiting, preschool and subsidized full day pre-school programs for over 347 low-income, homeless, foster and teen parent families. Services include comprehensive early education, health, disabilities, mental health, and family support. Services are offered to the child and family directly and through community partnerships. Dlec also provides free drop-in play & learn program conducted in english, spanish, and chinese to over 667 children and their caregivers at three locations in the community.
$7,692,953 spent$294,977 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,692,953.
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 2018 to 2019, from $2.4M to $12M (+378%).
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 69% · 2018 82% · 2019 73% · 2020 68% · 2021 84% · 2022 82% · 2023 90% · 2024 88% · 2025 87%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of DENISE LOUIE EDUCATION CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 1 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
Susan Yang
Executive director
Board chair
Kai Shih
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $332k → $595k.
8 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 DENISE LOUIE EDUCATION CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 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
DENISE LOUIE EDUCATION CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% 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
59% 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 DENISE LOUIE EDUCATION CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 54% · 2019 76% · 2020 30% · 2021 19% · 2022 40% · 2023 25% — 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
40% of DENISE LOUIE EDUCATION CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
85% of DENISE LOUIE EDUCATION CENTER's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $859k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
DENISE LOUIE EDUCATION CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding DENISE LOUIE EDUCATION CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $54.9M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$54.9M
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 DENISE LOUIE EDUCATION 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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DENISE LOUIE EDUCATION CENTER?
- DENISE LOUIE EDUCATION CENTER (Washington) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,822,999 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ($666,757). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DENISE LOUIE EDUCATION CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $3,822,999 in grants to DENISE LOUIE EDUCATION CENTER, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DENISE LOUIE EDUCATION CENTER?
- UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $666,757 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DENISE LOUIE EDUCATION 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 46 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