Washington · Nonprofit
Southeast Seattle Education Coalition
Southeast Seattle Education Coalition (Washington) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,313,515 to it, the largest being KEN BIRDWELL FOUNDATION (DBA MAGIC CABINET) C/O CLARK NUBER PS ($870,333). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $4.3M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Southeast Seattle Education Coalition does
Mission
The mission of SESEC is to convene and resource communities of color to advocate for an equitable education system.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Fiscally Sponsored ProgramsSESEC fiscally sponsored the following projects Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity SEED SEED partners with communities, organizations, and institutions in bringing people together to learn through self reflection, built relationships through structured dialogue, and create change through systemic analysis. As the core of SEED, the staff team trains new leaders to facilitate seminars in their own communities, organizations, and institutions. The SEED staff continues to lead their own seminars and further their own learning while providing ongoing support and guidance to traned SEED leaders across the country and around the world. SESSFA is a cooperative of Southeast Seattle public school PTAs and PTOs that believe in the power of sharing resources and strengthening relationships across our Southeast Seattle education community and beyond. Serving more than 6,700 students at 17 elementary, K-8 and middle schools.
$975,457 spentof which $504,225 as grants64% of program spendingOur coalition meetings are the heartbeat of SESEC work. consistent, strategic convenings where community leaders, educators, and advocates come together every month to build trust, align goals, and drive meaningful change for Southeast Seattle youth of color. The power of these gatherings lies in their depth and cosistency. These gatherings offer Consistency, Trusted, regular space for long term relationship building, Depth, Grounded conversations on root causes and solutions, Action, Concrete steps toward policy and practice change. Every meeting centers the lived experiences of Southeast Seattle communities of color and brings education equity into sharper focus. Investing in these meetings means fueling a proven platform where equity in education moves from conversation to action.
$352,386 spentof which $513 as grants23% of program spendingYouth Participatory Grantmaking Project YGMPStudents are often the target for funding decisions but rarely have a democratic say in how funding allocations or decisions are made. YGMP seeks to flip these power dynamics by creating a framework for students, and especially students of color in SE Seattle, to make funding decisions and support their leadership in this arena.By creating a pool of resources and mentoring youth of color in making decisions around how to bring those resources to their own schools and communities, this project provides them a voice in shaping their own educational and life experiences This is also a trust building exercise between young people and systems, where we learn together and alongside each other how to re-shape and create new ways of being in community together. Participants meet regularly and receive supportive training and mentoring in the areas of local education policy, social justice-focused philanthropy, and advocacy skills development. At the end of each cohort, youth participants collaboratively allocate grant funding
$74,335 spentof which $11,250 as grants5% of program spendingProgram Service Expenses 112,733, Grants and allocations 31,079, Revenue 0 Other Program Services include Data Cohorts Project, a data literacy workshop series. Family Navigator Project, a collaboration between SESEC and community-based family leaders to support the leadership of historically marginalized families in public education advocacy. SEED Local SESECs local SEED Project focuses on emerging community leaders, nonprofit professionals, parents and guardians, and SESEC allies who are working towards educational equity.
$112,733 spentof which $31,079 as grants7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,514,911.
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. 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 2021 to 2022, from $307k to $2.1M (+580%).
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: 2018 16% · 2019 14% · 2020 17% · 2021 25% · 2022 2% · 2023 5% · 2024 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
73% of Southeast Seattle Education Coalition’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% 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.
Chief executive
Lizbet Huizar
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $23k → $564k.
7 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 Southeast Seattle Education Coalition’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
Southeast Seattle Education Coalition has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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
58% 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 Southeast Seattle Education Coalition.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 56% · 2019 100% · 2020 34% · 2021 29% · 2022 38% · 2023 50% — 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
38% of Southeast Seattle Education Coalition's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
98% of Southeast Seattle Education Coalition's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M 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.
Against its field
Southeast Seattle Education Coalition holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Southeast Seattle Education Coalition
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
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 Southeast Seattle Education Coalition: 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 Southeast Seattle Education Coalition?
- Southeast Seattle Education Coalition (Washington) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,313,515 to it, the largest being KEN BIRDWELL FOUNDATION (DBA MAGIC CABINET) C/O CLARK NUBER PS ($870,333). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Southeast Seattle Education Coalition have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $4,313,515 in grants to Southeast Seattle Education Coalition, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Southeast Seattle Education Coalition?
- KEN BIRDWELL FOUNDATION (DBA MAGIC CABINET) C/O CLARK NUBER PS is the largest funder on record, with $870,333 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Southeast Seattle Education Coalition 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 27 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