Washington · Nonprofit
SOUND
SOUND (Washington) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,908,639 to it, the largest being NESHOLM FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,035,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $99M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $69M
What Sound does
Mission
Sound's mission is improving lives by providing equitable, recovery focused behavioral healthcare for all in our community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Outpatient behavioral health servicesoutpatient behavioral health includes a full range of mental health, substance use and vocational services for clients of all ages. Services are recovery oriented and designed to foster clients' attainment of stability and growth consistent with individualized goals. Evidence-based approaches include holistic comprehensive treatment plans, wellness recovery action plans, harm reduction & relapse prevention, supported employment, and peer/parenting support. Care is available through individual and group/family treatment in office, community, home and schools.
$40,272,661 spent$52,045,644 earned by the program51% of program spendingResidential care servicesresidential care services are provided at two long-term rehabilitation facilities: keystone hall (64 beds), and stillwater (16 beds), and one enhanced services facility: parks place (16 beds). These facilities provide an intensive service environment and are characterized by complex licensing and eligibility requirements. The residential rehabilitation design enables mentally ill adults to live in a safe, therapeutic community residence, with integrated treatment goals and activities. Most residents come from more restrictive care environments, such as western state hospital, via the placement services of the hospital liaison.
$12,131,854 spent$12,643,874 earned by the program15% of program spendingHousing support servicesthis diverse set of programs supports clients with varying types and levels of clinical needs in finding and/or maintaining stable housing for themselves and their families. The largest is supportive services for veteran families, which serves veterans experiencing homelessness by providing access to shelter, transitional housing, housing search assistance, and financial assistance for housing and related expenses. The willows, a residential complex with 15 separate dwelling units, provides an environment for mothers who have recently completed inpatient substance use treatment to be reunited with their children and be clinically supported in stabilizing their recovery as well as finding permanent housing. Other programs support individuals in maintaining their housing through therapeutic and case management support, and provide clients with clinical services combined with supportive housing.
$9,838,029 spentof which $249,900 as grants$9,798,612 earned by the program12% of program spendingIntellectual and developmental disabilities servicesthese programs provide a wide range of services to adults and youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities and mental health/co-occurring diagnoses. Idd's overall goal is to help clients live safely and as independently as possible in their respective communities. The program emphasizes strategies that help clients use the assistance and resources available to them including friends, family and their own natural support system in order to meet their needs. Idd services include group and individual therapy, family and couples counseling, clinical case management to assist with residential and other case management issues, medication management and psychiatric services, nursing services, health care supporter and crisis intervention services.
$6,931,751 spent$9,133,940 earned by the program9% of program spendingForensic servicesthese services are designed in partnership with the federal, state, county and local departments of corrections, city jails and courts to provide transition and re-entry programs. Sound has provided a coordinated approach with the criminal justice system and community since the mid 1990's that allows a consistent, seamless set of interventions to assist the client with discharge planning, re-entry services and stabilization to support reduced recidivism. Services include fully integrated mental health, substance use, vocational programming and housing support.
$3,427,114 spent$3,743,300 earned by the program4% of program spendingCrisis servicescrisis services includes mobile rapid response crisis teams which are deployed 24/7/365 to serve all of king county outside of the city of seattle and vashon island. Mobile rapid response crisis teams were launched in the fall of 2024 and reached full capacity during 2025. Crisis services also comprises telephonic crisis care as well as law enforcement co-responder programs partnering with first responders in two municipalities.
$6,951,158 spent$7,362,415 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $79,552,567.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $55M to $104M (+88%).
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 6% · 2022 4% · 2023 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Egner Katrina L
President & CEO
Board chair
Dowdy Roger
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $189k → $216k.
8 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 SOUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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
SOUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
35% 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 SOUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 43% · 2019 38% · 2020 35% · 2021 47% · 2022 71% · 2023 46% — 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
53% of SOUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
SOUND draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $588k 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.
Government funding SOUND receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $52.3M on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$36.6M
- Department of Health and Human Services$15.8M
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 SOUND
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 11 related entities
- Eastside Residential Opportunities · exempt
- Smhi Residential Services · exempt
- Christopher Housing · exempt
- Shirley Bridge Bungalows · exempt
- Arbor Housing Associates · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOUND: 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 SOUND?
- SOUND (Washington) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,908,639 to it, the largest being NESHOLM FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,035,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUND have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $2,908,639 in grants to SOUND, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUND?
- NESHOLM FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,035,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUND 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 31 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