Washington · Nonprofit
INTERNATIONAL FRIENDS SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL FRIENDS SCHOOL (Washington) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $834,309 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($628,607). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.7M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $834k
- Net assets
- $276k
What International Friends School does
Mission
International Friends School prepares students to embrace the challenges of today so they may seize the opportunities of tomorrow. We create habits of strong heart and mind through quaker education in a modern, immersive, multilingual environment. Our students have the character, communication skills and cultural competency to meaningfully participate as world citizens.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
International Friends School creates habits of strong heart and mind through quaker education in a modern, immersive, multilingual environment. Ifs students have the character, communication skills and cultural competency to meaningfully participate as world citizens. Ifs values are a marriage of the six quaker testimonies service, peace, integrity, community, equality and stewardship and the commitment ifs has to every child in the school. Joy celebrating the love of life and the thrill of discovery. Stewardship cultivating kinship, kindness, and caring for all human lives and for planet earth. Wisdom nurturing scholarship, imagination and curiosity through authentic risk taking. Principle fostering a bold and resilient character that practices industriousness, optimism, gratitude and integrity. Peace through the values of joy, stewardship, wisdom and principle, a foundation will exist for every student to own and cherish the responsibility for their vibrant, diverse, everchanging community. International Friends School successfully completed its fourth year of school operations, serving students with an elementary school program, and its enriching preschool to kindergarten…
$2,899,880 spentof which $153,365 as grants$3,283,626 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,899,880.
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 2023 to 2024, from $682k to $1.3M (+91%).
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: 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 4% · 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
9% of INTERNATIONAL FRIENDS SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $1k → $188k.
5 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% 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 INTERNATIONAL FRIENDS SCHOOL’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
INTERNATIONAL FRIENDS SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 INTERNATIONAL FRIENDS SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 96% · 2021 57% · 2022 72% · 2023 70% — 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
60% of INTERNATIONAL FRIENDS SCHOOL'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
91% of INTERNATIONAL FRIENDS SCHOOL'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. Of the $75k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside Washington, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $760k 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
INTERNATIONAL FRIENDS SCHOOL has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like INTERNATIONAL FRIENDS SCHOOL
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INTERNATIONAL FRIENDS SCHOOL: 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 INTERNATIONAL FRIENDS SCHOOL?
- INTERNATIONAL FRIENDS SCHOOL (Washington) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $834,309 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($628,607). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does INTERNATIONAL FRIENDS SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $834,309 in grants to INTERNATIONAL FRIENDS SCHOOL, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INTERNATIONAL FRIENDS SCHOOL?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $628,607 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INTERNATIONAL FRIENDS SCHOOL 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 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing