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SADDLEROCK EDUCATION ASSOCIATION

SADDLEROCK EDUCATION ASSOCIATION (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,160 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($18,676). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$979k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$33k
Net assets
$185k
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Saddlerock Education Association does

Mission

Joyful scholars provides a holistic preschool-12th grade education in the montesssori tradition, empowering students to use sound judgement, evaluate and understand the world around them, and be well-informed, contributing citizens.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To provide a holistic preschool-12th grade education in the montessori tradition, empowering students to use sound judgement, evaluate and understand the world around them, and be well-informed, contributing citizens.

    $669,916 spent$761,168 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $669,916.

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 ($279k) Expenses 100 ($293k) Net assets 100 ($29k)2018 Revenue 119 ($332k) Expenses 106 ($312k) Net assets 167 ($49k)2019 Revenue 142 ($397k) Expenses 140 ($410k) Net assets 123 ($36k)2020 Revenue 147 ($409k) Expenses 142 ($418k) Net assets 93 ($28k)2021 Revenue 233 ($649k) Expenses 212 ($623k) Net assets 422 ($124k)2022 Revenue 326 ($908k) Expenses 347 ($1.0M) Net assets 47 ($14k)2023 Revenue 414 ($1.2M) Expenses 420 ($1.2M) Net assets -221 ($-65118)2024 Revenue 405 ($1.1M) Expenses 359 ($1.1M) Net assets -35 ($-10423)2025 Revenue 351 ($979k) Expenses 268 ($786k) Net assets 626 ($185k)
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Revenue (351)Expenses (268)Net assets (626)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 2022 to 2023, from $520k to $956k (+84%).

$49k
$66k
$53k
$251k
$291k
$520k
$956k
$1.1M
$1.1M
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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

7% of SADDLEROCK EDUCATION ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$15k
’17
$20k
’18
−$13k
’19
−$9k
’20
$26k
’21
−$111k
’22
−$79k
’23
$73k
’24
$193k
’25
1.2
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.

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Listed554444553
Joined·+0+1+0+0+2+2+3+2
No longer listed·02002134
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $220 → $336.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
2
1
1
1
1

3 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 SADDLEROCK EDUCATION ASSOCIATION’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

SADDLEROCK EDUCATION ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 SADDLEROCK EDUCATION ASSOCIATION.

56%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 97% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

100% of SADDLEROCK EDUCATION ASSOCIATION'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $33k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

SADDLEROCK EDUCATION ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin20% · above the median
Months of reserve1.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)17% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 15%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SADDLEROCK EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: 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 SADDLEROCK EDUCATION ASSOCIATION?
SADDLEROCK EDUCATION ASSOCIATION (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,160 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($18,676). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SADDLEROCK EDUCATION ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $33,160 in grants to SADDLEROCK EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SADDLEROCK EDUCATION ASSOCIATION?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $18,676 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SADDLEROCK EDUCATION ASSOCIATION 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 3 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