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ISSAQUAH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION

ISSAQUAH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,116,926 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($876,528). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$972k
Funders on record
33
Grants received
$2.1M
Net assets
$2.1M
16/33 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 40%
01What it does

What Issaquah Schools Foundation does

Mission

The Issaquah Schools Foundation, in partnership with the issaquah school district, drives resources to help students reach the promise of their potential.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Academic support - provided funds for certified staff to help students in math, reading or writing - library books - literacy support - online subscriptions - elementary special educational programs - preschool curriculum support

    $165,759 spent
    35% of program spending

  2. Basic student needs and community support - backpacks, lunchboxes, and supplies for low income students - behavioral health support in sel curriculum - food support throughout the year and unpaid meal debt relief for low income students - support for parentwiser speaker series on mental health topics - support for student interventions services - multi-language community support

    $123,485 spent
    26% of program spending

  3. Academic enrichment - includes professional development - professional development - teacher grants - robotics - fine art - high school club grants - student scholarships - preparation for the workforce - support of the great careers conference and cte - middle school science enrichment

    $189,197 spent
    40% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $478,441.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.9M) Expenses 100 ($1.8M) Net assets 100 ($1.4M)2018 Revenue 81 ($1.5M) Expenses 85 ($1.5M) Net assets 109 ($1.5M)2019 Revenue 80 ($1.5M) Expenses 81 ($1.4M) Net assets 115 ($1.6M)2020 Revenue 59 ($1.1M) Expenses 65 ($1.2M) Net assets 119 ($1.6M)2021 Revenue 62 ($1.2M) Expenses 55 ($988k) Net assets 157 ($2.2M)2022 Revenue 50 ($951k) Expenses 65 ($1.1M) Net assets 127 ($1.7M)2023 Revenue 48 ($900k) Expenses 53 ($947k) Net assets 134 ($1.8M)2024 Revenue 52 ($972k) Expenses 55 ($984k) Net assets 155 ($2.1M)
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Revenue (52)Expenses (55)Net assets (155)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.7M to $2.2M (+26%).

$1.8M
$1.7M
$1.7M
$1.7M
$2.2M
$1.9M
$2.1M
$2.2M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2019 12% · 2020 2% · 2021 0% · 2022 1% · 2023 3% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$104k
’17
$8k
’18
$61k
’19
−$51k
’20
$173k
’21
−$198k
’22
−$47k
’23
−$12k
’24
4.5
months of
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.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2022 and FY2023, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.

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Listed3632272522161615
Joined·+7+4+7+3+4+6+3
No longer listed·119961064
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $143k → $363k.

Funder
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total
Toys for Kidsunclassified
$5k
funders
10
8
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8
8
9
12
8
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2

10 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 ISSAQUAH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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

ISSAQUAH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

92% 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 ISSAQUAH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION.

41%
largest funder
71%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 32% · 2019 45% · 2020 69% · 2021 53% · 2022 54% · 2023 36% — growing more concentrated.

“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

23% of ISSAQUAH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

86% of ISSAQUAH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION'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 $298k that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from Washington funders.

WA
IL
NY
IN
CT
CA
DE
AZ
NC
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Washington out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like ISSAQUAH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION

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

Mercer Island Schools Foundation84%Bellevue Schools Foundation84%Islandwood83%Highline Schools Foundation for Excellence83%Issaquah Soccer Club82%Foundation for Tacoma Students82%The Bellingham Public School Foundation82%Snohomish Education Foundation82%

Nationally

The Foundation for the Iowa City Community School District86%Indianapolis Public Schools Education Foundation Inc85%Irving Schools Foundation85%Mercer Island Schools Foundation84%Bellevue Schools Foundation84%Irvine Public Schools Foundation84%Islandwood83%Asheville City Schools Foundation Inc83%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

70% of spending goes to programs.

Program 70%Management 15%Fundraising 15%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

WA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ISSAQUAH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: 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 ISSAQUAH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION?
ISSAQUAH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,116,926 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($876,528). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does ISSAQUAH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $2,116,926 in grants to ISSAQUAH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ISSAQUAH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $876,528 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ISSAQUAH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 33 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