Washington · Nonprofit
Rooted School Washington
Rooted School Washington (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,979,450 to it, the largest being WASHINGTON STATE CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION ($1,573,236). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Rooted School Washington does
Mission
The charitable purpose is to operate a public charter school in Vancouver, Washington. The mission is to rapidly reduce America's wealth gap by connecting underserved and talented teenagers with career and financial pathways.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The mission is to rapidly reduce America's wealth gap by connecting underserved and talented teenagers with career and financial pathways. The launch of a 501c3 organization to support the founding of Rooted School Washington, a public charter schoool in Vancouver, Washington.
$1,728,819 spent$1,754,020 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,728,819.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $543k to $3.0M (+458%).
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: 2021 15% · 2022 3% · 2023 32% · 2024 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 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
Adrienne Mason
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $415k → $235k.
From the IRS filings of Rooted School Washington’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
Rooted School Washington leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 Rooted School Washington.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 75% · 2023 68% — 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.
Where its funders are
83% of Rooted School Washington's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like Rooted School Washington
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Rooted School Washington: 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 Rooted School Washington?
- Rooted School Washington (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,979,450 to it, the largest being WASHINGTON STATE CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION ($1,573,236). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Rooted School Washington have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $1,979,450 in grants to Rooted School Washington, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Rooted School Washington?
- WASHINGTON STATE CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,573,236 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Rooted School Washington 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 5 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