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Rainbow Center

Rainbow Center (Washington) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,120,279 to it, the largest being KEN BIRDWELL FOUNDATION (DBA MAGIC CABINET) C/O CLARK NUBER PS ($335,367). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$760k
Funders on record
32
Grants received
$1.1M
Net assets
$382k
14/32 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 32%
01What it does

What Rainbow Center does

Mission

Through education advocacy and celebration The Rainbow Center expands resources and safe space for lesbian gay bisexual transgender queer and allied community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The Tacoma PRIDE festival honors the LGBTQA community by fostering pride in who we are as valuable creative members of a diverse population in the South Puget Sound region by curating cultural events establishing partnerships and hosing Tacoma PRIDE formerly Out in The Park an outdoor festival.

    $229,483 spentof which $4,201 as grants$51,367 earned by the program
    52% of program spending

  2. Crime Victim Service Center: Rainbow Center advocates are available to assist crime victims as they cope through the aftermath of victimization by providing resources and one-on-one advocacy. Police reports US Citizenship and LGBTQ identification are not required for services.

    $99,699 spentof which $100 as grants
    23% of program spending

  3. Rainbow Center offers educational workshops and cultural competency trainings to the South Sound region and to the greater state of Washington. All trainings are facilitated in a safe affirming and inclusive atmosphere for participants to ask questions and engage in discussions openly and respectfully.

    $112,851 spentof which $419 as grants$9,800 earned by the program
    26% of program spending

  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $442,033.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($505k) Expenses 100 ($557k) Net assets 100 ($320k)2018 Revenue 105 ($528k) Expenses 117 ($653k) Net assets 61 ($194k)2019 Revenue 112 ($567k) Expenses 108 ($604k) Net assets 43 ($136k)2020 Revenue 214 ($1.1M) Expenses 169 ($943k) Net assets 142 ($456k)2021 Revenue 117 ($589k) Expenses 109 ($609k) Net assets 131 ($418k)2022 Revenue 185 ($935k) Expenses 169 ($941k) Net assets 129 ($411k)2023 Revenue 158 ($799k) Expenses 154 ($857k) Net assets 110 ($353k)2024 Revenue 152 ($768k) Expenses 150 ($833k) Net assets 90 ($287k)2025 Revenue 150 ($760k) Expenses 119 ($664k) Net assets 119 ($382k)
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Revenue (150)Expenses (119)Net assets (119)Peer revenue range

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 $179k to $456k (+155%).

$331k
$209k
$179k
$456k
$418k
$439k
$366k
$401k
$484k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 25% · 2018 27% · 2019 28% · 2020 68% · 2021 41% · 2022 41% · 2023 19% · 2024 62% · 2025 33%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

103% of Rainbow Center’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,984 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$52k
’17
−$126k
’18
−$36k
’19
$139k
’20
−$20k
’21
−$6k
’22
−$59k
’23
−$65k
’24
$96k
’25
4.8
months of
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

Joanne Levy

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.

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Listed109101313121067
Joined·+4+4+6+3+3+8+1+7
No longer listed·533341056
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $52k → $146k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
'26*
total
Inatai Foundationunclassified
$259k
Artsfundnew
$50k
Multicare Health Systemunclassified
$23k
Philanthropy Northwestunclassified
$17k
funders
4
3
3
7
10
13
10
11
6
1

6 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 Rainbow Center’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 funders by total. 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

Rainbow Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

55% 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 Rainbow Center.

30%
largest funder
66%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 42% · 2019 48% · 2020 52% · 2021 28% · 2022 76% · 2023 58% — growing more concentrated.

“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

33% of Rainbow Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

91% of Rainbow Center's grant income comes from Washington funders.

WA
MN
NY
CT
MO
DE
GA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Washington out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $258k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Rainbow Center runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 979 civil rights nonprofits its size.

Operating margin13% · above the median
Months of reserve4.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 979 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Rainbow 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

Rainbow Community Center Olympia79%Seattle Out and Proud Inc78%Yakima Pride77%The Pride Foundation76%Rainbow Advocacy Inclusion Networking Services75%Seattle Out & Proud Foundation75%Pride Across the Bridge74%Rebuilding Hope Sexual Assault Center74%

Nationally

Rainbow Community Center Olympia79%Seattle Out and Proud Inc78%Pride Northwest Inc78%Pride Collective & Community Center77%Yakima Pride77%Triangle Community Center Inc76%Pride Center of Vermont Inc76%The Pride Foundation76%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

67% of spending goes to programs.

Program 67%Management 17%Fundraising 16%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

76%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Rainbow Center?
Rainbow Center (Washington) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,120,279 to it, the largest being KEN BIRDWELL FOUNDATION (DBA MAGIC CABINET) C/O CLARK NUBER PS ($335,367). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Rainbow Center have?
IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $1,120,279 in grants to Rainbow Center, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Rainbow Center?
KEN BIRDWELL FOUNDATION (DBA MAGIC CABINET) C/O CLARK NUBER PS is the largest funder on record, with $335,367 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Rainbow 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 32 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing