Washington · Nonprofit
MENDING WINGS
MENDING WINGS (Washington) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $342,273 to it, the largest being SCHOOL'S OUT WASHINGTON ($139,150). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $386k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $342k
- Net assets
- $114k
What Mending Wings does
Mission
Mending Wings exists to empower and heal Native youth through leadership development, cultural retention and revitalization programs, spirituality and our ways of life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
S.L.A.M. (Students Learning about Missions) Program - This program offers youth groups, college groups and families an opportunity to immerse themselves in a different culture for a week and learn a different model of service and learning trips. Groups are invited to the Yakama Reservation as learners and listeners where we hope that healing happens between people groups.
$149,837 spent$140,775 earned by the program43% of program spending4-1 Youth Group & Youth Council - A mid-week gathering for teens that is full of good food, fun games & prizes and impactful, inter-active teachings meant for Native youth on the Yakama Reservation in the 21st century. Youth Council is a program where Native teens are developed as leaders as they plan, develop and implement many of the activities and teachings for our various programs.
$58,411 spent17% of program spendingDancing Our Prayers - DOP are teams of Native teens who travel locally, regionally and nationally sharing their culture, spirituality and way of life. The youth and staff of Mending Wings drum & dance in full regalia, perform drama, give testimony and speak on conciliation issues between Native and non-Native America.
$120,552 spent$5,612 earned by the program35% of program spendingGuys & Girls Night - A great program that is filled with food, fun and games. Teens participate in drug & alcohol-free events like skating, sledding, Get Air, movies, swimming, etc.
$9,320 spent3% of program spendingFootprints of Our Elders - Cultural revitalization and retention classes where Native youth learn drum songs, how to dance traditional dances, our language, how to gather bark for cedar bark baskets, how to gather tule to make tule mats, bead-working and many other cultural learning activities.
$7,115 spent2% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $345,235.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2019 to 2020, from $60k to $177k (+196%).
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: 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 1% · 2021 14% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 10% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of MENDING WINGS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Rena Marquez
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $68k → $42k.
1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 MENDING WINGS’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
MENDING WINGS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
74% 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 MENDING WINGS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 59% · 2021 77% · 2022 100% · 2023 60% — 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.
How long its funders stay
60% of MENDING WINGS's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 50% 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
95% of MENDING WINGS's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $323 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
MENDING WINGS's revenue grew 55% between 2018 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MENDING WINGS: 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 MENDING WINGS?
- MENDING WINGS (Washington) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $342,273 to it, the largest being SCHOOL'S OUT WASHINGTON ($139,150). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MENDING WINGS have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $342,273 in grants to MENDING WINGS, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MENDING WINGS?
- SCHOOL'S OUT WASHINGTON is the largest funder on record, with $139,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MENDING WINGS 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 8 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