Washington · Nonprofit
SNOHOMISH COUNTY PUBLIC DEFENDER ASSOCIATION
SNOHOMISH COUNTY PUBLIC DEFENDER ASSOCIATION (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,370 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($18,370). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $23M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $33k
- Net assets
- $4.0M
What Snohomish County Public Defender Association does
Mission
The Snohomish County Public Defender Association is a private, non-profit law office, incorporated under the laws of the state of washington. We provide effective assistance of counsel to person's facing loss of liberty under criminal and civil laws. The goal of the association is to provide the highest quality of legal representation to our clients.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
All of the work of Snohomish County Public Defender Association is dedicated to public defense supporting indigent persons in criminal and civil cases where loss of liberty under criminal and civil laws is potential. Indigent people for these purposes are those who cannot afford legal counsel and are facing a potential loss of liberty. We fight for the rights of our clients and work to zealously defend them as their right that is afforded to them through amendment 6 of the us constitution.
$20,542,614 spent$22,313,415 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $20,542,614.
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 2023 to 2024, from $5.4M to $8.0M (+47%).
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: 2021 11% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of SNOHOMISH COUNTY PUBLIC DEFENDER ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Kathleen Kyle
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% 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 SNOHOMISH COUNTY PUBLIC DEFENDER ASSOCIATION’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
SNOHOMISH COUNTY PUBLIC DEFENDER ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% 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
85% 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 SNOHOMISH COUNTY PUBLIC DEFENDER ASSOCIATION.
“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
85% of SNOHOMISH COUNTY PUBLIC DEFENDER ASSOCIATION'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 $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Washington funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $28k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
SNOHOMISH COUNTY PUBLIC DEFENDER ASSOCIATION has grown faster than half of the 254 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 254 crime & legal nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like SNOHOMISH COUNTY PUBLIC DEFENDER ASSOCIATION
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
92% 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 SNOHOMISH COUNTY PUBLIC DEFENDER ASSOCIATION: 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 SNOHOMISH COUNTY PUBLIC DEFENDER ASSOCIATION?
- SNOHOMISH COUNTY PUBLIC DEFENDER ASSOCIATION (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,370 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($18,370). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SNOHOMISH COUNTY PUBLIC DEFENDER ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $33,370 in grants to SNOHOMISH COUNTY PUBLIC DEFENDER ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SNOHOMISH COUNTY PUBLIC DEFENDER ASSOCIATION?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $18,370 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SNOHOMISH COUNTY PUBLIC DEFENDER ASSOCIATION 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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