Washington · Nonprofit
FIRST PLACE
FIRST PLACE (Washington) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $164,380 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ($75,678). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $164k
- Net assets
- $6.8M
What First Place does
Mission
Offer housing, education and support services to families in need.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Education: First Place has a capacity of educating 51 students at any given time in early learning and preschool education program. First Place provides direct educational services, nutrition, and family support services to all students enrolled.
$1,244,322 spent$59,790 earned by the program74% of program spendingHousing stability program: First Place provides transitional housing to families experiencing homelessness and housing instability, housing support services, and permanent-supportive low-income housing. First Place owns a duplex for this purpose.low income permanent housing: imani village owned by First Place provides 16 units to the income qualified families.
$435,796 spentof which $7,770 as grants$174,736 earned by the program26% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,680,118.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $8.6M to $8.5M (−2%).
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 40% · 2022 66% · 2023 66% · 2024 66%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of FIRST PLACE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 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
Dawn Mason
Board president
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $79k → $16k.
2 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $281k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest First Place Endowment Trust Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money FIRST PLACE raised.
From the IRS filings of FIRST PLACE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 12 of 13 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
FIRST PLACE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
64% 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 FIRST PLACE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 58% · 2019 68% · 2020 42% · 2021 77% · 2022 100% · 2023 63% — 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
56% of FIRST PLACE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
90% of FIRST PLACE's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
FIRST PLACE is better cushioned than half of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like FIRST PLACE
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Imani Village Housing LLC · disregarded
- First Place Endowment Trust Fund · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FIRST PLACE: 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 FIRST PLACE?
- FIRST PLACE (Washington) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $164,380 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ($75,678). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FIRST PLACE have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $164,380 in grants to FIRST PLACE, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FIRST PLACE?
- UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $75,678 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FIRST PLACE 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), 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