Washington · Nonprofit
LAKE STEVENS EDUCATION FOUNDATION
LAKE STEVENS EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,191 to it, the largest being Community Foundation of Snohomish County ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $117k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $83k
- Net assets
- $413k
What Lake Stevens Education Foundation does
Mission
To provide an alternative source of support for district programs and scholarships for the lake stevens, wa public education district.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The foundation issues innovative teaching and learning grants to educators and schools in the lake stevens school district. Grants are awarded to projects that are creative innovative, focus on improving student achievenment in the arts, science, reading, math or writing, demonstrate integration of curriculum, apply learning to the real world (relevancy), strengthen the relationship between school, home, and the community, impact a significant number of students or more than one school.
$25,533 spent23% of program spendingThe foundation awards scholarships to graduating high school students in the lake stevens school district for use at an academically accredited four-year college or university.
$60,299 spent55% of program spendingThe foundation has become the local affiliate funding the dolly parton imagination library program in the lake stevens school district at a cost of $25 per child, per year. Preschool children ages birth to five years old, living within the lake stevens school district boundary, are eligible to register to receive a free, age appropriate book mailed each month until their 5th birthday. Our current program enrollment is about 500 children.
$19,797 spent18% of program spendingThe bridge and arts connect programs.
$3,461 spent3% of program spendingOther
$500 spent0% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $109,590.
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 2018 to 2019, from $315k to $368k (+17%).
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.
79% of LAKE STEVENS EDUCATION FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $30k → $260.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 79% 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 LAKE STEVENS EDUCATION FOUNDATION’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
LAKE STEVENS EDUCATION FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 LAKE STEVENS EDUCATION FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 62% — 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.
Where its funders are
79% of LAKE STEVENS EDUCATION 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 $18k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $66k 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
LAKE STEVENS EDUCATION FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LAKE STEVENS EDUCATION 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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LAKE STEVENS EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- LAKE STEVENS EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,191 to it, the largest being Community Foundation of Snohomish County ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LAKE STEVENS EDUCATION FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $83,191 in grants to LAKE STEVENS EDUCATION FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LAKE STEVENS EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- Community Foundation of Snohomish County is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAKE STEVENS EDUCATION 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.
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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 5 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