Washington · Nonprofit
East African Community Services
East African Community Services (Washington) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,367,753 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,023,350). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.2M
- Funders on record
- 49
- Grants received
- $8.4M
- Net assets
- $3.3M
What East African Community Services does
Mission
The mission of East African Community Services is to support cradle-to-career success for the East African community in King County by offering prenatal support early learning K12 education programs youth mentorship youth justice youth sports cultural preservation affordable housing and comprehensive family wraparound services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education K-12 and Youth Mentorship: Offers culturally responsive education and mentorship programs that help youth excel in school and prepare for future success. Through tutoring leadership development and guidance from positive role models we support young people in building confidence skills and strong community connections.
$807,608 spent17% of program spendingYouth Justice: Programs support East African youth at risk of or involved in the juvenile justice system. We provide mentorship restorative justice practices and family-centered support to help young people heal build resilience and re-engage with school and community.
$1,115,698 spent24% of program spendingPrenatal - 5 Program: Supports families from pregnancy through early childhood with culturally responsive programs that promote healthy development and school readiness. Through prenatal education parenting support developmental screening Play & Learn groups and early learning opportunities we help children thrive and families build strong foundations for success.
$509,679 spent11% of program spendingCommunity Support Youth Mentorship Cultural Services
$2,312,140 spent49% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,745,125.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2023 to 2024, from $2.2M to $15M (+601%).
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 44% · 2020 15% · 2021 30% · 2022 65% · 2023 72% · 2024 49% · 2025 63%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of East African Community Services’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Abdirizak Ahmed
Board chair
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 $218k → $855k.
10 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 East African Community Services’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 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
East African Community Services has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
75% 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 East African Community Services.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 20% · 2019 30% · 2020 27% · 2021 19% · 2022 16% · 2023 19% — 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
39% of East African Community Services's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
78% of East African Community Services's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
East African Community Services has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like East African Community 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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- EACS Family Empowerment Center LLC · disregarded
- The Horn at SeaTac · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for East African Community 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 East African Community Services?
- East African Community Services (Washington) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,367,753 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,023,350). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does East African Community Services have?
- IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $8,367,753 in grants to East African Community Services, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of East African Community Services?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,023,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like East African Community 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 49 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