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KANDELIA

KANDELIA (Washington) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,630,019 to it, the largest being SCHOOL'S OUT WASHINGTON ($395,124). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.1M
Funders on record
41
Grants received
$2.6M
Net assets
$695k
21/41 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 37%
01What it does

What Kandelia does

Mission

We remove barriers to opportunities so immigrant and refugee communities can flourish without compromising values, heritage or ethnicity.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Youth program - Kandelia's youth program is based out of seattle world school, a school within the seattle public school district designed for newly arrived immigrant and refugee students. We partner with the school to help students grow their resources, skills, and supportive relationships to succeed in school and prepare for post-secondary education and career plans. Our program includes english classes, individualized student success coaching, job readiness training and career exploration, soccer, and a summer school program where students catch up on core classes and gain credit towards graduation. Our goal is for immigrant and refugee students to have equitable access and choice for educational career opportunities.

    $431,863 spent$203 earned by the program
    48% of program spending
  2. Community engagement - Kandelia's community engagement program brings together partnerships and resources to remove barriers to immigrant and refugee students and families. The program provides weekly, culturally relevant groceries, and secures in-kind donations of school supplies and grocery gift cards to meet student and family needs. This program maintains a network of referral partners so we can connect students and families to resources across seattle.

    $175,860 spent$10,119 earned by the program
    20% of program spending
  3. Family program - Kandelia's family program helps caregivers of immigrant and refugee students grow skills for self-sufficiency and self-advocacy, and empowers caregivers to be more informed, involved, and engaged with their schools and in their communities. Family program classes and workshops are open to caregivers of immigrant and refugee students across the seattle public school district. Classes include english classes at various levels and digital literacy classes. Self-sufficiency workshop topics are selected each year based on caregiver input, and include topics like navigating the public school system, workers' rights, financial literacy, youth mental and behavioral health, and more.

    $283,578 spent$6,675 earned by the program
    32% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $891,301.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($793k) Expenses 100 ($776k) Net assets 100 ($352k)2018 Revenue 110 ($868k) Expenses 110 ($854k) Net assets 104 ($366k)2020 Revenue 190 ($1.5M) Expenses 138 ($1.1M) Net assets 202 ($712k)2021 Revenue 169 ($1.3M) Expenses 151 ($1.2M) Net assets 248 ($872k)2022 Revenue 243 ($1.9M) Expenses 170 ($1.3M) Net assets 420 ($1.5M)2023 Revenue 125 ($990k) Expenses 163 ($1.3M) Net assets 342 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 159 ($1.3M) Expenses 204 ($1.6M) Net assets 249 ($878k)2025 Revenue 135 ($1.1M) Expenses 161 ($1.3M) Net assets 197 ($695k)
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Revenue (135)Expenses (161)Net assets (197)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.0M to $1.6M (+50%).

$390k
$388k
$762k
$1.0M
$1.6M
$1.3M
$968k
$736k
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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
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 34% · 2018 48% · 2020 51% · 2021 72% · 2022 42% · 2023 65% · 2024 59% · 2025 58%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of KANDELIA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,814 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$16k
’17
$14k
’18
$428k
’20
$160k
’21
$607k
’22
−$275k
’23
−$326k
’24
−$183k
’25
5.7
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.

Board chair

Gregorio Vincent

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed798867109
Joined·+5·+1+2+2+6+2
No longer listed·3·14133
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $220k → $366k.

10 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 KANDELIA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 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

KANDELIA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

62% 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 KANDELIA.

15%
largest funder
34%
top three
~14
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 40% · 2019 28% · 2020 33% · 2021 33% · 2022 33% · 2023 34% — 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

47% of KANDELIA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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 KANDELIA's grant income comes from Washington funders.

WA
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CA
KS
TX
FL

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

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Washington out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $621k 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

Against its field

KANDELIA is better cushioned than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−17% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve5.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

71% of spending goes to programs.

Program 71%Management 14%Fundraising 15%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

87%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds KANDELIA?
KANDELIA (Washington) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,630,019 to it, the largest being SCHOOL'S OUT WASHINGTON ($395,124). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does KANDELIA have?
IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $2,630,019 in grants to KANDELIA, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of KANDELIA?
SCHOOL'S OUT WASHINGTON is the largest funder on record, with $395,124 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like KANDELIA 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 41 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