Washington · Nonprofit
SOUTH SOUND OUTREACH SERVICES
SOUTH SOUND OUTREACH SERVICES (Washington) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,472,190 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY ($478,050). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $3.5M
- Net assets
- $338k
What South Sound Outreach Services does
Mission
To empower pierce county residents to achieve their financial dreams through an integrated model of coaching and counseling to secure personal financial security.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Sound outreach assists those seeking to overcome financial insecurity by providing one-on-one financial counseling, employment coaching and income support. Sound outreach helps pierce county residents build financial security through programs focused on improving credit scores, release from predatory loans, and partnerships offering access to financial capital.our staff treats every client with respect and compassion. We look beyond initial needs and explore opportunities for each individual and family to find financial security for long-term stability and independence.
$722,156 spent$43,485 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $722,156.
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 $543k to $300k (−45%).
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 64% · 2018 71% · 2019 65% · 2020 47% · 2021 71% · 2022 45% · 2023 51% · 2024 37% · 2025 46%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of SOUTH SOUND OUTREACH SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Bryan Flint
Executive director
Board chair
Candace Duecker
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $255k → $627k.
4 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 SOUTH SOUND OUTREACH SERVICES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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
SOUTH SOUND OUTREACH SERVICES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
62% 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 SOUTH SOUND OUTREACH SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 32% · 2019 51% · 2020 33% · 2021 47% · 2022 18% · 2023 36% — 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
29% of SOUTH SOUND OUTREACH SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
75% of SOUTH SOUND OUTREACH SERVICES's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $137k 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
SOUTH SOUND OUTREACH SERVICES runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding SOUTH SOUND OUTREACH SERVICES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $54k on record.
- Department of the Treasury$54k
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 SOUTH SOUND OUTREACH SERVICES
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
56% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 SOUTH SOUND OUTREACH SERVICES: 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 SOUTH SOUND OUTREACH SERVICES?
- SOUTH SOUND OUTREACH SERVICES (Washington) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,472,190 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY ($478,050). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTH SOUND OUTREACH SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $3,472,190 in grants to SOUTH SOUND OUTREACH SERVICES, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTH SOUND OUTREACH SERVICES?
- UNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $478,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTH SOUND OUTREACH SERVICES 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 39 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