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SALISH CURRENT

SALISH CURRENT (Washington) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $286,655 to it, the largest being THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ($92,210). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$179k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$287k
Net assets
$196k
6/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 46%
01What it does

What Salish Current does

Mission

Nonpartisan, nonprofit, online local news organization.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Report local news with independence and strict journalistic integrity, providing fact-based information and a forum for civil commentary.

    $143,540 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $143,540.

02The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($66k) Expenses 100 ($41k) Net assets 100 ($56k)2022 Revenue 131 ($87k) Expenses 143 ($59k) Net assets 149 ($84k)2023 Revenue 262 ($173k) Expenses 230 ($95k) Net assets 287 ($161k)2024 Revenue 270 ($179k) Expenses 347 ($144k) Net assets 349 ($196k)
2021202220232024
Revenue (270)Expenses (347)Net assets (349)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 $84k to $161k (+93%).

$56k
$84k
$161k
$196k
2021202220232024
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of SALISH CURRENT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 25,057 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$25k
’21
$28k
’22
$78k
’23
$35k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $37k.

5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 SALISH CURRENT’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

SALISH CURRENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

93% 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 SALISH CURRENT.

32%
largest funder
74%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 90% · 2023 64% — 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

75% of SALISH CURRENT's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y

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

67% of SALISH CURRENT'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 $95k that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from funders outside Washington, across 4 states.

WA
CA
DE
FL

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

’20
’21
’22
’23
Washington out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $192k 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

SALISH CURRENT has grown faster than three-quarters of the 22,838 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin20% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)39% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,838 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like SALISH CURRENT

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05Profile & governance

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SALISH CURRENT: 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 SALISH CURRENT?
SALISH CURRENT (Washington) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $286,655 to it, the largest being THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ($92,210). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SALISH CURRENT have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $286,655 in grants to SALISH CURRENT, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SALISH CURRENT?
THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $92,210 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SALISH CURRENT 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 11 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