Washington · Nonprofit
Down Syndrome Community of Puget Sound
Down Syndrome Community of Puget Sound (Washington) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $605,211 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($170,494). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $690k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $605k
- Net assets
- $963k
What Down Syndrome Community of Puget Sound does
Mission
DSC's mission is to empower people with down syndrome and their families through life-long learning and experiences, while building an accepting and inclusive society.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Host family and community social events across the Puget Sound region, providing a supportive, non-judgemental environment for people with down syndrome, their families and friends, facilitating communication between families with similar experiences. Community activities include holiday party, fashion show, picnic, sweetheart dance, spring fling, megarama day and "Trunk or Treat". New parent packets are made available to local hospitals to educate parents about care of and services available for babies with down syndrome.Sponsor the annual Puget Sound Buddy Walk, an event where approximately 1300 people with down syndrome, family, friends, educators, therapists, legislators and community leaders promote advocacy, awareness and networking around down syndrome.Learning program designed to teach childrent with down syndrome and their parents skill development for literacy, math, language and fine motor skills. This program is designed to supplement traditional education, focusing on parents as the first teachers for their children.
$198,469 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $198,469.
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 2020 to 2021, from $571k to $801k (+40%).
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: 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of Down Syndrome Community of Puget Sound’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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 broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $25 → $115k.
7 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 Down Syndrome Community of Puget Sound’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
Down Syndrome Community of Puget Sound leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 Down Syndrome Community of Puget Sound.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 98% · 2019 54% · 2020 63% · 2021 48% · 2022 56% · 2023 61% — 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
27% of Down Syndrome Community of Puget Sound's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
64% of Down Syndrome Community of Puget Sound's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $301k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Down Syndrome Community of Puget Sound 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 Down Syndrome Community of Puget Sound
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
25% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Down Syndrome Community of Puget Sound: 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 Down Syndrome Community of Puget Sound?
- Down Syndrome Community of Puget Sound (Washington) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $605,211 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($170,494). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Down Syndrome Community of Puget Sound have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $605,211 in grants to Down Syndrome Community of Puget Sound, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Down Syndrome Community of Puget Sound?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $170,494 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Down Syndrome Community of Puget Sound 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 22 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