Washington · Nonprofit
EXCEPTIONAL FORESTERS INC
EXCEPTIONAL FORESTERS INC (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $184 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($184). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $184
- Net assets
- $7.0M
What Exceptional Foresters Inc does
Mission
To assist people with disabilities to maximize their sense of dignity and self-worth by providing quality vocational evaluation and training, community employment suited to the individual's needs, skills, desires and social development, and residential services which enable them to attain their highest level of independence in all phases of their lives.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Efi's supported living program serves 51 clients in mason and thurston counties. Skilled staff of approximately 158 serve both our supported living program as well as our community guide/engagement in different settings; supporting them with goals, safety and independence.
$11,001,579 spent$10,874,499 earned by the program87% of program spendingEfi's vocational services department provides employment assistance, vocational programs, and community inclusion for disabled youth and adults. Efi staff work closely with the department of social & health services division of vocational rehabilitation and the developmental disabilities administration to place individuals with disabilities in the community workforce and help facilitate access to non-employment related activities that help to enhance life areas and develop meaningful relationships in the community. We also provide services to high school students through thurston-mason county developmental disabilities program and job placement and retention services through a medicaid funded program, foundational community supports. In 2024, we served 312 clients across all programs.
$1,573,057 spent$2,227,307 earned by the program13% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,574,636.
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 2019 to 2020, from $7.0M to $8.0M (+15%).
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.
0% of EXCEPTIONAL FORESTERS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (21% 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.
Chief executive
Danielle Cook
Executive director
Board chair
Lisa Welander
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $31 → $51.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 EXCEPTIONAL FORESTERS INC’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.
Where its funders are
100% of EXCEPTIONAL FORESTERS INC'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $184 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
EXCEPTIONAL FORESTERS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,288 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,288 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like EXCEPTIONAL FORESTERS INC
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 1 related entity
- Exceptional Foresters Pooled Trust · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EXCEPTIONAL FORESTERS INC: 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 EXCEPTIONAL FORESTERS INC?
- EXCEPTIONAL FORESTERS INC (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $184 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($184). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does EXCEPTIONAL FORESTERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $184 in grants to EXCEPTIONAL FORESTERS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EXCEPTIONAL FORESTERS INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $184 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EXCEPTIONAL FORESTERS INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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