Washington · Nonprofit
Eastside Community School
Eastside Community School (Washington) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $698,499 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($337,599). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.2M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $698k
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Eastside Community School does
Mission
We educate our students to fulfill their highest potential - think clearly, feel deeply, impart meaningful purpose to their lives, and actively contribute to the positive development of society.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Early Childhood - In our early childhood classrooms, great care is taken to create a warm and home-like setting and a beautiful environment where children's senses are nurtured. Every aspect of our early childhood program is designed to foster healthy and balanced intellectual, emotional, and physical development from daily outdoor play and nature walks to the organic foods served at snack time. Our students learn by engaging in practical activities such as washing dishes, sweeping, gardening, baking and building. We incorporate seasonal crafts, movement, outdoor adventures, and ample creative free play to encourage joyful learning and imaginative exploration. Eastside Community School (ECS) offers preschool and kindergarten for three- to six-year-old children (children must turn three by September 1st).
$734,915 spentof which $82,674 as grants$458,020 earned by the program20% of program spendingGrade School & Middle School - The key to education at Eastside Community School is balance: between students' practical knowledge and their creative enthusiasm; in a rich curriculum where challenging academics are integrated with arts, music, and movement; and where we ensure that learning happens naturally and rhythmically while helping develop students' skill and interest in a variety of subjects and activities. Subjects are made engaging and exciting by teachers skilled in oral storytelling and by integrating each subject with a variety of arts.Elementary School:Students don't merely absorb the subjects taught in the two-hour main lesson. Instead, they reach a deep understanding of each lesson by bringing it to life in books that they design, write, and illustrate about each subject. Day-to-day learning takes place in a non-competitive environment. Parents receive regular updates through parent-teacher conferences, written evaluations of student progress, and close relationships between teachers, students, and families. Teachers and students often progress together from first grade through the middle school years. Other specialty teachers add to the weekly rhythm by sharing…
$2,375,436 spentof which $885,685 as grants$3,126,735 earned by the program64% of program spendingHigh School - When Eastside Community School developed the vision for educating children aged 14-18, we removed all constraints from our imagination and developed a program intended to educate the whole child. This freed us to individualize the student experience with a flexible schedule where educational blocks of varying length could be employed with fluid programming. By forming as a Homeschool Enrichment Program, we remain fluid and flexible in helping students to meet individualized goals. By forming a partnership with a WA state-approved umbrella school, students can also receive official credits, transcripts, and, if all graduation requirements are met, a high school diploma through our partner school for work done in our program. Helping the students to find and achieve their destiny is the basis and inspiration for our program. We take direction from the individual human beings before us who are caught in the midst of the polarities of the world process and his or her own striving to evolve according to the ideal of their own higher nature.
$598,264 spentof which $63,097 as grants$272,356 earned by the program16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,708,615.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2021 to 2022, from $1.8M to $9.7M (+452%).
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 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 4% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
8% of Eastside Community School’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $350 → $83k.
7 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% 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 Eastside Community School’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
Eastside Community School leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
91% 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 Eastside Community School.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 57% · 2021 69% · 2022 84% · 2023 53% — 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
60% of Eastside Community School's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
91% of Eastside Community School's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $64k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Washington funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $634k 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
Eastside Community School has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Eastside Community School
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Eastside Community School: 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 Eastside Community School?
- Eastside Community School (Washington) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $698,499 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($337,599). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Eastside Community School have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $698,499 in grants to Eastside Community School, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Eastside Community School?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $337,599 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Eastside Community School 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 11 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