Washington · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF THE BING
FRIENDS OF THE BING (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,750 to it, the largest being SAHLIN FOUNDATION ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $577k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $3k
- Net assets
- $459k
What Friends of the Bing does
Mission
Friends of the Bing is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that presents and promotes performing and visual arts in the spokane and inland northwest areas.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Between july 1, 2024, and june 30, 2025, Friends of the Bing opened the doors to the bing crosby theater for a total of 107 days, welcoming an audience of approximately 28,265 people. Being the hub of community presentations for spokane, we welcomed amazing community groups to our stage. The christian youth theater joined us for 48 days where over 82 children practiced and presented a musical over a two-week period. Cyt performed for nine audiences including two days where the local schools brought children to the theater as a field trip to enjoy the show. Spokane jazz orchestra played at the bing on october 5, 2024. Northwest passages featured local and national writers interviewed on stage by our local newspaper editor on february 9, 2025. Tedx spokane, presented on september 28,2024, featured local and national people sharing their big ideas. The spokane string quartet played their beautiful music on our stage on march 16, 2025, and were recorded to be played on the local public radio station the next week. Adriano ferraro, local author and singer, presented a holiday show on december 1, 2024, celebrating his faith in god and humanity. Get lit, a yearly literary festival at our…
$420,497 spent$574,199 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $420,497.
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.
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 $200k to $339k (+69%).
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: 2022 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
2018 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $3k → $250.
From the IRS filings of FRIENDS OF THE BING’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
FRIENDS OF THE BING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2021 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
FRIENDS OF THE BING draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like FRIENDS OF THE BING
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDS OF THE BING: 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 FRIENDS OF THE BING?
- FRIENDS OF THE BING (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,750 to it, the largest being SAHLIN FOUNDATION ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE BING have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $2,750 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE BING.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE BING?
- SAHLIN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE BING 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 2 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