Washington · Nonprofit
Shared Blessings
Shared Blessings (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $313,090 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($301,000). 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
- $202k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $313k
- Net assets
- $641k
What Shared Blessings does
Mission
SB serves Gambia West Africans through feeding, First Aid Clinic and a School-Preschool, Kindergarten and Grades One thru Nine. SB qualifies under IRC 170(B)(1)(A)(II) as a school and holds certification from the Gambia Dept of Education
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Preschool through Ninth Grade primary school was built in the Gambia West Africa and opened in September 2005. It now enrolls 350 students. There are 29 Gambian employees and teachers. SB is registered in the State of Washington as a Nonprofit Charitable Corporation,granted IRC 501(C)(3) Charity status by the IRS, and registered with the Gambian Department of Education as a Preschool, Kindergarten and First through Ninth Grade provider.
$313,561 spent$22,267 earned by the program97% of program spendingAnnually the Feed INF Program provides (350 students 29 staff times 200 days plus 50 students, feeding 76,050 meals.
$6,821 spent2% of program spendingSB-Emmanuel Mission Center (EMC) operates a First Aid Clinic on behalf of the 350 students and 29 staff and teachers. The neighbors also have access to the clinic 40 to 50 individuals served, SB provided financial assistance for medical emergencies.
$3,122 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $323,504.
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 2024 to 2025, from $800k to $641k (−20%).
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.
89% of Shared Blessings’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Sulayman Bah
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $500 → $342.
3 of 4 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 Shared Blessings’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
Shared Blessings leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% 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 Shared Blessings.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 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 Shared Blessings'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 $500 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $313k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Shared Blessings holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Shared Blessings
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Shared Blessings: 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 Shared Blessings?
- Shared Blessings (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $313,090 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($301,000). 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 Shared Blessings have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $313,090 in grants to Shared Blessings, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Shared Blessings?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $301,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Shared Blessings 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 4 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