Washington · Nonprofit
SCHOOLS FOR SALONE
SCHOOLS FOR SALONE (Washington) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,285,840 to it, the largest being MCPHERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($514,250). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $799k
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $590k
What Schools for Salone does
Mission
Advancing quality education in sierra leone through local partnerships.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Girls program : Schools for Salone supports girls' education by working with uman tok, a sierra leonean non-profit organization that provides sexual reproductive health education to students and reusable menstrual pads to girls to ensure they do not miss school due to their period. In 2024, uman tok, with support from Schools for Salone, distributed 1,157 reusable menstrual hygiene pads to women and girls in our school communities. Additionally, 796 health kits were provided to boys. 1,708 students (both girls and boys) and 981 parents (both men and women) participated in sexual reproductive health education. We also support uman tok's operating costs to implement this work in last mile communities across sierra leone .
$73,845 spentof which $73,845 as grants12% of program spendingSchool support: through our school support program, in 2024 Schools for Salone and its partner organizations constructed two primary schools (including a well and latrines) in underserved communities in sierra leone (pentagon and musaia). We also repaired a latrine and equipped one of the new schools with a solar-power system. Two older schools (gbaama and bendu) were also repaired in 2024. In addition, 2024 school support funds were used to provide: 1. Books and learning supplies to 11 schools2. Sexual and reproductive health education plus reusable menstrual pads for 437 girls and health kits to 379 boys at 12 schools, and teacher training and certification support to teachers at 7 schools3. Inspiring reader refresher training for teachers at 2 schools.
$122,162 spentof which $122,162 as grants21% of program spendingTeacher supportin 2024, Schools for Salone's partner organization, the learning foundation, conducted literacy training workshops for 51 teachers and lead remedial reading clubs for 685 students and 19 teachers.additionally, sfs partnered with the sierra leone book trust to implement the inspiring readers programme which brings library books and resources to rural primary school across sierra leone. 7 teachers were trained to implement this program impacting 250 students. Salbot also helped train 19 teachers as volunteer librarians for one school library and one community library. 10 teachers also participated in sierra leone's ministry of education teacher certification program.
$60,177 spentof which $60,177 as grants10% of program spendingOther programs and achievements library programs: started three additional inspiring readers program in the northern province of sierra leone. This program provides library books to rural primary schools by providing each school with a small, cupboard library. Trained 23 teachers to implement this program. Student support: sponsored 101 students through scholarships to ensure they continue to pursue their education. Bicycle project: distributed 439 bikes to students who live long distances from school books & supplies: provided school supplies to 24 schools, three times a year (per each term). General mission: provided operational support for five sierra leone non-profit partner organizations that implement all our programming in last mile communities across sierra leone.
$337,400 spentof which $154,720 as grants57% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $593,584.
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 $388k to $535k (+38%).
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 4% · 2019 7% · 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of SCHOOLS FOR SALONE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Cindy Nofziger
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $26k → $286k.
10 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 SCHOOLS FOR SALONE’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
SCHOOLS FOR SALONE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
49% 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 SCHOOLS FOR SALONE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 67% · 2019 37% · 2020 35% · 2021 28% · 2022 31% · 2023 68% — 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
47% of SCHOOLS FOR SALONE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
SCHOOLS FOR SALONE draws 85% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $606k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
SCHOOLS FOR SALONE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SCHOOLS FOR SALONE
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SCHOOLS FOR SALONE: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SCHOOLS FOR SALONE?
- SCHOOLS FOR SALONE (Washington) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,285,840 to it, the largest being MCPHERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($514,250). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SCHOOLS FOR SALONE have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $1,285,840 in grants to SCHOOLS FOR SALONE, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SCHOOLS FOR SALONE?
- MCPHERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $514,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SCHOOLS FOR SALONE 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.
Play a game about who funds Schools for Salone →
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 26 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