Washington · Nonprofit
RE SOURCES
RE SOURCES (Washington) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,409,093 to it, the largest being WHATCOM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,798,418). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 51
- Grants received
- $5.4M
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Re Sources does
Mission
RE Sources mobilizes people of Northwest Washington to build just and thriving communities and to protect the land, water, and climate on which we all depend.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The RE Store, a project of RE Sources, diverts reusable building materials, tools, and furniture from the landfill while modeling a circular economy for Northwest Washington. In 2025, the RE Store diverted an estimated 2.88 million pounds of materials program-wide - an 11% increase over 2024 - through retail sales, store donations, item pickups, contract salvage services, and manufacturing waste diversion partnerships with local businesses. Our Salvage Services team completed 19 jobs, recovering high-quality architectural materials that would otherwise be lost to demolition and remodel waste, and continued refining salvage into a reproducible regional model through participation in a local construction and demolition summit. Our Manufacturing Waste Diversion program added four new business partners in 2025, diverting an estimated 103,844 pounds of materials. The RE Store also creates pathways to green jobs through our Community Jobs Training Program, where 65 participants logged 3,815 hours of hands-on training in 2025. Ninety percent of participants who complete the program find employment or enroll in college.
$911,961 spent$824,560 earned by the program61% of program spendingNorthsound Waterkeeper: RE Sources serves as the Northsound Waterkeeper, filling critical water quality knowledge gaps that public agencies lack the capacity to address - providing the science necessary to keep Northwest Washington's waters safe for swimming and shellfish harvesting. In 2025, 19 volunteers conducted monthly water quality testing of four urban creeks and ten outfalls flowing into Bellingham Bay, sampling in all weather conditions to provide consistent, reliable data on stormwater - the Salish Sea's largest source of pollution. Our Year 4 Stormwater Summary Report found that all monitored outfalls and creeks failed to meet water quality standards at least once during the sampling period. This marked our third consecutive year testing for PFAS (forever chemicals) during the first fall flush; while fewer sites showed high concentrations, the median total of PFAS has increased each year. Staff monitored six lakes for harmful algal blooms monthly, reporting findings to Whatcom County Health and Human Services and Western Washington University. We published four white papers on the state of water quality, bacteria, PFAS, and pollution in Bellingham Bay. Joined by 230…
$71,670 spent5% of program spendingLand, Water, and Climate Advocacy: RE Sources advocates for the forests, watersheds, and climate policies that protect Northwest Washington's land and water for generations to come. In 2025, we convened monthly strategy sessions with more than 30 Forest Watch coalition members and continued monitoring DNR's implementation of the "Forest Forward" executive order, which proposes conservation of 77,000 acres of Structurally Complex Forest across Western Washington, including critical parcels in Whatcom County. We supported robust public engagement on the Lake Whatcom Forest Management Plan - a draft plan to manage nearly 12,000 acres of forest land in the Lake Whatcom watershed for water quality and climate resilience - and continued supporting the Lake Whatcom Policy Group in addressing key issues raised during public comment. We celebrated the installation of the first-ever off-season boat launch gate at Bloedel Donovan Park, an additional protection for Bellingham's drinking water supply. RE Sources also advocated for climate resilience through comprehensive plan updates in Whatcom and Skagit Counties and the City of Anacortes. Our priorities were incorporated into the final…
$383,172 spentof which $300 as grants25% of program spendingEducating for the Environment: Our work to build a community of informed advocates requires investing in youth - not only as future leaders, but as active contributors to a sustainable Northwest Washington right now. In 2025, RE Sources provided six elementary schools with waste assessments, diverting more than 30 cubic yards of garbage from the landfill monthly, and provided custodial training and tools to help Whatcom County schools navigate the Organics Management Law. Our Youth for the Environment and People (YEP!) program directly served 28 high school students across two after-school cohorts. In this student-led program, participants designed and carried out community action projects that built leadership and advocacy skills, increasing their confidence and knowledge in creating real community change.
$139,253 spent9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,506,056.
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 2022 to 2023, from $2.7M to $2.3M (−15%).
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 8% · 2018 8% · 2019 7% · 2020 11% · 2021 8% · 2022 7% · 2023 8% · 2024 11% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
65% of RE SOURCES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% 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.
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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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $523k → $608k.
9 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 RE SOURCES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 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
RE SOURCES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
51% 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 RE SOURCES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 27% · 2019 40% · 2020 32% · 2021 43% · 2022 19% · 2023 24% — 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
67% of RE SOURCES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
81% of RE SOURCES's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
RE SOURCES's funding base is broadening — from 15 funders to 24 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,209 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding RE SOURCES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $220k on record — $99k federal, $121k state.
- Department of Commerce$99k
- TRUST FUND$121k
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 RE SOURCES
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 RE SOURCES: 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 RE SOURCES?
- RE SOURCES (Washington) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,409,093 to it, the largest being WHATCOM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,798,418). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RE SOURCES have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $5,409,093 in grants to RE SOURCES, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RE SOURCES?
- WHATCOM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,798,418 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RE SOURCES 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 51 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