Washington · Nonprofit
Methow Recycles
Methow Recycles (Washington) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $609,787 to it, the largest being THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ($257,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $299k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $610k
- Net assets
- $209k
What Methow Recycles does
Mission
To inspire and facilitate resource conservation through recycling, waste prevention and materials reuse in rural Washington.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
RECYCLING: Provided stable, successful, full-service recycling in N Central WA. Enhanced our collaborative relationships, our reputation for excellence with recycling buyers, and strong public support. In 2025 we recycled 585,200lbs of curbside recycling, 231,560lbs of glass and 298,805lbs of other recycling for a total of 1,115,565 pounds.We also recycled over 120,000 pounds of scrap metal, 968 pounds of batteries, 10,800 pounds of electronics, 700 gallons of paint, and 261 pounds of light bulbs.
$202,776 spent78% of program spendingEDUCATION & OUTREACH:We ran 3 weeks of summer camp reaching 23 children that taught local youth skills in deconstruction, repair, upcycling, mending, and an awareness of how to decrease overall waste. We hosted an afterschool club, Fix It Club, for 4th and 5th grades that ran for 6 weeks. Students learned how to use sewing machines, diagnose and fix basic items around the house and classroom, perform basic bike maintenance, and tool safety. We collaborated with 4 other organizations and agencies on an Earth Day program at the elementary school which gave 4th and 6th grades hands-on learning through activities such as trail etiquette, invasive weed removal, upcycling old clothes, and fire safety. Our community outreach included partnering with the Forest Service and a local trail organization to put on an Earth Week of action that featured community projects supporting conservation and trail maintenance, supporting the town of Twisp in their annual holiday event by hosting an upcycled ornament making table, and collaborating with the WA Dept of Fish and Wildlife and the Winthrop National Fish hatchery to teach kids about water conservation and waste awareness at Kids Fishing Day.
$46,794 spent18% of program spendingWaste Prevention: Conducted a monthly repair cafe on the third Saturday of every month in partnership with our local food bank. This program served 233 people at an over 88% successful repair rate with 395 successful repairs provided by volunteer repairers, and diverted countless items from the landfill. Over 600 customers bought reclaimed materials at our ReMake Center where we take donations of building materials to divert them from the landfill and customers can buy them for a discounted price. Our Share Library served 137 people with 237 tools borrowed for the year. In 2025, our residential composting program in partnership with local business B2G Compost collected over 13,500lbs of kitchen scraps across two community drop-off locations.
$10,399 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $259,969.
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 2019 to 2020, from $292k to $492k (+68%).
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 14% · 2019 21% · 2020 17% · 2021 10% · 2022 20% · 2023 11% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
43% of Methow Recycles’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Tanya Kvicala
Executive Director
Board chair
Kristi Skanderup
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $30k → $97k.
8 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% 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 Methow Recycles’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
Methow Recycles leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
86% 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 Methow Recycles.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 100% · 2019 96% · 2020 56% · 2021 41% · 2022 63% · 2023 36% — 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
25% of Methow Recycles's funders are still giving 3 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
80% of Methow Recycles'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 $123k that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from funders outside Washington, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $487k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Methow Recycles's revenue grew 59% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment 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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Methow Recycles?
- Methow Recycles (Washington) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $609,787 to it, the largest being THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ($257,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Methow Recycles have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $609,787 in grants to Methow Recycles, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Methow Recycles?
- THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $257,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Methow Recycles 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 12 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