Washington · Nonprofit
Environmental Science Center
Environmental Science Center (Washington) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $656,395 to it, the largest being THE RUSSELL FAMILY FOUNDATION ($172,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $924k
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $656k
- Net assets
- $837k
What Environmental Science Center does
Mission
The Environmental Science Center promotes environmental stewardship and academic achievement through science-based education. We help people feel a deeper connection and a motivation to want to protect the environment by using nature as our teacher at local beaches, streams, school gardens, and forests in south King County of Washington. Our programs increase scientific literacy, provide an opportunity for more diversity in STEM career fields, and increase healthy every-day choices that affect the Salish Sea community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In-School K-12 Educational Programs
$335,628 spent$3,393 earned by the program64% of program spendingEducational Community Programs
$97,811 spent19% of program spendingOther Program Services: Extracurricular K-12, Festivals, Summer Camps, Teacher Professional Development
$58,674 spent$27,892 earned by the program11% of program spendingTeen Programs
$35,092 spent$600 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $527,205.
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 2017 to 2018, from $1.1M to $986k (−11%).
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 21% · 2018 43% · 2019 37% · 2020 42% · 2021 52% · 2022 49% · 2023 62% · 2024 62% · 2025 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
101% of Environmental Science Center’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $62k → $56k.
7 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 Environmental Science Center’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
Environmental Science Center has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
52% 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 Environmental Science Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 72% · 2019 67% · 2020 58% · 2021 29% · 2022 25% · 2023 45% — 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
25% of Environmental Science Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 32% 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
60% of Environmental Science 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. $111k 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
Environmental Science Center has grown faster than half of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Environmental Science Center receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $266k on record.
- Department of Commerce$166k
- Environmental Protection Agency$100k
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 Environmental Science 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
61% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Environmental Science Center: 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 Environmental Science Center?
- Environmental Science Center (Washington) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $656,395 to it, the largest being THE RUSSELL FAMILY FOUNDATION ($172,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Environmental Science Center have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $656,395 in grants to Environmental Science Center, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Environmental Science Center?
- THE RUSSELL FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $172,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Environmental Science 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 25 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