Washington · Nonprofit
NORTHSHORE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
NORTHSHORE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $865,311 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($543,857). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $717k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $865k
- Net assets
- $868k
What Northshore Schools Foundation does
Mission
To raise funds and building community partnerships that enhance and inspire learning potential, remove barriers and build skills for life, thereby maximizing educational success for all Northshore students. To be the catalyst for programs and activities that amplify district priorities for student and teacher education and excellence.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Removing Barriers supports - In 2024-2025 Removing Barriers supported a total of 1,250 families through all three programs. We continued to be a fiscal sponsor for the Northshore School District's Family Engagement Center's Summer Meals program which served 300 boxes of food to support over 1,000 families in July and Aug.
$397,855 spent87% of program spendingThe 2024-2025 school year was the second year we provided grants through our Enhance and Inspire Learning Grants to classroom teachers and school district departments on a bi-annual basis. Grant cycles in the Fall and Spring have been very successful, and we saw an increase in grant applications which resulted in a 71 grant awards, supporting 32/34 schools. This is an increase of 8 awards and three additional schools over the previous school year.
$54,876 spent12% of program spendingBuild Skills for Life continued to fund the No Desks Allowed program at the Secondary Academy for Success alternative High School as well as the supplement their Rock Band instructor. We added our support for the C.P. and Dorothy Johnson Humanitarian Awards, to this funding pillar and added support for a new Emergency Preparedness Shed building project by the students in the Core Plus Construction class at Bothell High School.
$4,573 spent1% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $457,304.
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 2020 to 2021, from $528k to $1.1M (+106%).
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: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 4% · 2021 0% · 2022 60% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of NORTHSHORE SCHOOLS 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.
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
Cara Anderson-Ahrens
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $11k → $126k.
4 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 NORTHSHORE SCHOOLS 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
NORTHSHORE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 NORTHSHORE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 93% · 2019 92% · 2020 72% · 2021 85% · 2022 63% · 2023 60% — 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
44% of NORTHSHORE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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 NORTHSHORE SCHOOLS 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 $45k that is directly attributable, 62% of it comes from funders outside Washington, across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $820k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
NORTHSHORE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin 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 NORTHSHORE SCHOOLS 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.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NORTHSHORE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: 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 NORTHSHORE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION?
- NORTHSHORE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $865,311 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($543,857). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NORTHSHORE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $865,311 in grants to NORTHSHORE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHSHORE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $543,857 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHSHORE SCHOOLS 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.
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 19 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