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Skagit Valley College Foundation

Skagit Valley College Foundation (Washington) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,871,663 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($394,368). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$4.4M
Funders on record
37
Grants received
$1.9M
Net assets
$30M
20/37 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What Skagit Valley College Foundation does

Mission

Secure donations to enhance education at Skagit Valley College through scholarships, grants, and institutional support.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. $1,024,098 in academic scholarships were awarded to Skagit Valley College students for the 2024/2025 school year. $714,586 (includes $8,006 of in-kind services) in program assistance grants were awarded to Skagit Valley College programs for the 2024/2025 school year.Skagit Valley College provides academic transfer and professional technical 2-year degrees and certificates in over 25 fields of study; many of these degrees transfer to most Washington State 4-year colleges and universities. Additionally, Skagit Valley College provides 4-year bachelor's degrees in Applied Science (BAS), Advanced Manufacturing and Design, Early Childhood Education, Environmental Conservation, Applied Management, and Computer Science. For students looking to become college-ready, SVC offers Adult Basic Education courses and prep classes in math, English, English Language Acquisition, GED and more.

    $1,841,637 spentof which $1,730,678 as grants
    62% of program spending
  2. Skagit Valley College Foundation operates Campus View Village, a safe and inclusive student housing program on the north-end of the Skagit Valley College campus. Campus View Village serves up to 140 students year-round taking courses at Skagit Valley College. This popular program houses a large number of international students, student athletes, and others, making Campus View Village a dynamic and engaging addition to the Skagit Valley College culture. For more information, visit www.skagit.edu/cvv.

    $836,482 spentof which $7,238 as grants$878,024 earned by the program
    28% of program spending
  3. The Foundation operates the Cardinal Athletics Booster Club for the benefit of student athletes. $107,763 in athletic scholarships were awarded to Skagit Valley College student athletes for the 2024/2025 school year.

    $305,556 spentof which $107,763 as grants$139,617 earned by the program
    10% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,983,675.

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 ($1.9M) Expenses 100 ($1.9M) Net assets 100 ($14M)2018 Revenue 222 ($4.2M) Expenses 122 ($2.3M) Net assets 118 ($16M)2020 Revenue 184 ($3.5M) Expenses 97 ($1.9M) Net assets 134 ($18M)2021 Revenue 176 ($3.3M) Expenses 122 ($2.3M) Net assets 161 ($22M)2022 Revenue 262 ($5.0M) Expenses 121 ($2.3M) Net assets 152 ($21M)2023 Revenue 315 ($6.0M) Expenses 125 ($2.4M) Net assets 183 ($25M)2024 Revenue 274 ($5.2M) Expenses 167 ($3.2M) Net assets 209 ($28M)2025 Revenue 230 ($4.4M) Expenses 183 ($3.5M) Net assets 224 ($30M)
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Revenue (230)Expenses (183)Net assets (224)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 $22M to $25M (+18%).

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$17M
$19M
$23M
$22M
$25M
$29M
$31M
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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.

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2021
2022
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

52% of Skagit Valley College Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,360 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$10k
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$1.9M
’18
$1.6M
’20
$1.0M
’21
$2.7M
’22
$3.6M
’23
$2.0M
’24
$880k
’25
9.3
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.

Chief executive

Kathleen Petrzelka

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.

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Listed1113111212141515
Joined·+2·+3+3+4+3+1
No longer listed·0·23221
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $67k → $159k.

9 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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: $3.2M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Seattle Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Skagit Valley College Foundation raised.

From the IRS filings of Skagit Valley College Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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

Skagit Valley College Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 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 Skagit Valley College Foundation.

21%
largest funder
46%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 41% · 2019 29% · 2020 37% · 2021 28% · 2022 42% · 2023 23% — 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

33% of Skagit Valley College Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

80% of Skagit Valley College Foundation's grant income comes from Washington funders.

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

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Washington out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $750k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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

Skagit Valley College Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin20% · top quartile
Months of reserve9.3mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding Skagit Valley College Foundation receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $106.0M on record.

Federal$106.0M
grants $106.0Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$79.1M
  • Department of Education$24.7M
  • Department of Labor$1.2M
  • National Science Foundation$965k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like Skagit Valley College Foundation

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 11%Fundraising 3%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

65%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Skagit Valley College Foundation?
Skagit Valley College Foundation (Washington) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,871,663 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($394,368). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Skagit Valley College Foundation have?
IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $1,871,663 in grants to Skagit Valley College Foundation, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Skagit Valley College Foundation?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $394,368 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Skagit Valley College Foundation 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 37 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