Washington · Nonprofit
SCHOOL'S OUT WASHINGTON
SCHOOL'S OUT WASHINGTON (Washington) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,877,610 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($5,708,638). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 47
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What School's Out Washington does
Mission
School's Out Washington (sowa) drives positive systemic change so that all washington's children and youth, particularly those furthest from justice, have access to a robust ecosystem of high-quality expanded learning programs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Through our grant making program, we drive resources to culturally responsive programs in underserved communities by making grants that break down funding barriers, seed and expand programs, and strengthen opportunities for communities to lead. Currently, we provide grants to support refugee youth with our statewide refugee school impact program ("rsip") and to summer and after school programs in king county through the best starts for kids expanded learning initiative ("bsk").
$10,973,071 spentof which $9,802,216 as grants79% of program spendingSchool's Out Washington's professional development and program quality supports contribute to a thriving expanded learning workforce, a cornerstone for sustainable programs and positive youth outcomes. Our wide range of training and coaching supports help providers define what quality looks like, understand where they're at today, and pursue continuous improvements that make their programs more effective and joyful.
$2,602,553 spent$769,510 earned by the program19% of program spendingFor over 30 years, sowa has been supporting an equitable ecosystem of expanded learning programs for washington's youth by helping after-school, summer, and child care programs become more robust and accessible. In addition to our grant making and professional learning programs, sowa advocates for the youth development sector, convenes community advocates and system leaders to advance collective impact, and showcases the data and stories from youth program providers, highlighting the strengths and needs of washington's expanded learning programs and young people, ages 5 to 24. Our efforts benefit communities throughout the state by prioritizing youth most impacted by systemic inequity.
$359,310 spentof which $1,200 as grants3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,934,934.
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 2020 to 2021, from $6.3M to $3.7M (−42%).
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 34% · 2018 64% · 2019 61% · 2020 89% · 2021 93% · 2022 92% · 2023 92% · 2024 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of SCHOOL'S OUT WASHINGTON’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Elizabeth Whitford
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 17 funders to 13 funders, grant income fell $2.7M → $301k.
9 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $8k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest School's Out Washington). These are real filings, and they are not money SCHOOL'S OUT WASHINGTON raised.
From the IRS filings of SCHOOL'S OUT WASHINGTON’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 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
SCHOOL'S OUT WASHINGTON leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 56% · 2019 79% · 2020 45% · 2021 62% · 2022 61% · 2023 44% — 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
38% of SCHOOL'S OUT WASHINGTON's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
89% of SCHOOL'S OUT 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. $1.4M 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.
Against its field
SCHOOL'S OUT WASHINGTON has grown faster than half of the 203 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 203 youth development nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like SCHOOL'S OUT 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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SCHOOL'S OUT 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 SCHOOL'S OUT WASHINGTON?
- SCHOOL'S OUT WASHINGTON (Washington) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,877,610 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($5,708,638). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SCHOOL'S OUT WASHINGTON have?
- IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $10,877,610 in grants to SCHOOL'S OUT WASHINGTON, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SCHOOL'S OUT WASHINGTON?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,708,638 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SCHOOL'S OUT 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 47 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