Washington · Nonprofit
Elderwise
Elderwise (Washington) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $179,865 to it, the largest being THE RICHARD AND MAUDE FERRY FOUNDATION ($35,250). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $306k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $180k
- Net assets
- $73k
What Elderwise does
Mission
Our mission is to enrich the lives of caregivers and adults living with dementia through teaching and demonstrating the Elderwise philosophy and practice of Spirit-Centered Care.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
2025 was a year of grounding for Elderwise. We stabilized our new and ongoing programs and prepared for the retirement of our Founding Director, Sandy Sabersky. Seattle Parks and Recreation facilitated Elderwise events at the Seattle Arboretum Japanese Gardens. This year, we began a Coffee and Kuchen Cargiver Meet and Greet to be able to listen to the needs of our families/caregivers. The Baldouret Quartet, a world-class string ensemble that has been in residence with the Seattle Chamber Music Society, piloted with our participants a dementia-friendly classical music program. We hosted community gatherings, including our Annual Art Exhibit and Silent Auction, Maude's Garden Exhibit, and the Elderwise Holiday Gathering. In 2025, Elderwise provided 244 Days of Service, 1,834 Participant Visits, and 7,336 Hours of Enrichment and Respite.
$204,691 spent$157,596 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $204,691.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $25k to $54k (+116%).
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.
49% of Elderwise’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
Aninie Koziol
Executive Director
Board chair
Richard Moxon
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $100 → $1k.
3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 Elderwise’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
Elderwise has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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
39% 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 Elderwise.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 88% · 2021 65% · 2022 53% · 2023 97% — 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
50% of Elderwise's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
57% of Elderwise's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $51k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Elderwise has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Elderwise
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Elderwise?
- Elderwise (Washington) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $179,865 to it, the largest being THE RICHARD AND MAUDE FERRY FOUNDATION ($35,250). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Elderwise have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $179,865 in grants to Elderwise, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Elderwise?
- THE RICHARD AND MAUDE FERRY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $35,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Elderwise 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 13 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