Washington · Nonprofit
LAKE WHATCOM RESIDENTIAL AND TREATMENT CENTER
LAKE WHATCOM RESIDENTIAL AND TREATMENT CENTER (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $926,569 to it, the largest being NORTH SOUND ACCOUNTABLE COMMUNITY OF HEALTH ($895,569). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $17M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $927k
- Net assets
- $4.7M
What Lake Whatcom Residential and Treatment Center does
Mission
Our mission is to empower chronically mentally ill adults in our community to achieve and maintain the highest possible level of independence. We accomplish this by providing compassionate, comprehensive services - including outpatient mental health care, residential programs, primary care, community crisis support, and adult family homes - that promote stability, dignity, and personal growth. Through integrated care and a commitment to recovery, we strive to create pathways for wellness, resilience, and meaningful participation in community life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The behavioral health program provides individualized support for people with chronic mental illness, focusing on housing, employment, education, daily living, financial and legal issues, medical and psychiatric care, and personal growth. We serve clients through a range of programs: about 50 in pact, 230-240 in iop, 260 in outpatient care, 67 in agate heights residential, 70 in employment, 115 in therapy, 12 in our adult family home, and 16 in our enhanced services facility. In addition we have primary care program that services approximately 200 individuals.
$10,832,784 spent$12,223,226 earned by the program75% of program spendingThe baker creek residential substance use treatment facility has 32 beds and provides substance abuse treatment to people dually diagnosed with mental health disorders and substance use disorder. The focus is on education/support of recovery in relapse prevention, life skills and positive coping skills including positive support.
$1,556,222 spent$1,836,509 earned by the program11% of program spendingThe housing program provide safe and affordable housing in the community. Most of the apartments are two bedroom and are therefore shared with a roommate. All apartments are completely furnished and supplied with all kitchen utensils linens and small appliances. The organization works with the bellingham whatcom county housing authority and other non government and government agencies in the community to help clients with rental assistance and subsidies the organization provides housing for approximately 200 mental health clients.
$1,217,311 spent$1,762,927 earned by the program8% of program spendingThe heart & aces programs of lake whatcom center are funded by a samsha ccbhc grant. The program provides 24/7 access to community-based behavioral health crisis intervention services through the development of holistic engagement and allied recovery and treatment, behavioral health crisis stabilization and outreach support programs. Since implantation, the program has provided over 5,000 crisis stabilization and outreach support contacts to individuals otherwise not assisted in the community.
$805,298 spent$900,158 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $14,411,615.
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 2024 to 2025, from $5.9M to $7.8M (+31%).
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.
0% of LAKE WHATCOM RESIDENTIAL AND TREATMENT CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Jenny Billings
CEO-executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $196k → $70k.
From the IRS filings of LAKE WHATCOM RESIDENTIAL AND TREATMENT CENTER’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 WHATCOM RESIDENTIAL AND TREATMENT CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% 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
97% 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 WHATCOM RESIDENTIAL AND TREATMENT CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 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
100% of LAKE WHATCOM RESIDENTIAL AND TREATMENT CENTER's grant income comes from Washington funders.
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.
Against its field
LAKE WHATCOM RESIDENTIAL AND TREATMENT CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,843 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,843 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding LAKE WHATCOM RESIDENTIAL AND TREATMENT CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.9M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$5.7M
- General Services Administration$232k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like LAKE WHATCOM RESIDENTIAL AND TREATMENT CENTER
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Lake Whatcom Center Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LAKE WHATCOM RESIDENTIAL AND TREATMENT CENTER?
- LAKE WHATCOM RESIDENTIAL AND TREATMENT CENTER (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $926,569 to it, the largest being NORTH SOUND ACCOUNTABLE COMMUNITY OF HEALTH ($895,569). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LAKE WHATCOM RESIDENTIAL AND TREATMENT CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $926,569 in grants to LAKE WHATCOM RESIDENTIAL AND TREATMENT CENTER, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LAKE WHATCOM RESIDENTIAL AND TREATMENT CENTER?
- NORTH SOUND ACCOUNTABLE COMMUNITY OF HEALTH is the largest funder on record, with $895,569 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAKE WHATCOM RESIDENTIAL AND TREATMENT CENTER 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 3 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