Washington · Nonprofit
Spokane Zero Waste
Spokane Zero Waste (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,495 to it, the largest being Multi-Ethnic Business Association ($16,995). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $145k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $36k
- Net assets
- $47k
What Spokane Zero Waste does
Mission
We are a group of creative, passionate people who believe there are low-waste or waste free solutions for almost every aspect of daily life. We work to build a more resilient community through education, modeling and advocating for low waste policies.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Mend It Cafe: a free textile repair event for the community
$21,227 spent23% of program spendingReCraftLAB: an upcycling and training program for refugee and immigrant women with a focus on developing skills in the sewing trades for material reuse to create durable goods
$24,719 spent27% of program spendingUpcycle Fashion Lab: public sewing classes
$18,323 spent20% of program spendingFibershed: Working with stakeholders in the region to develop a natural fiber system that manufactures all manner of textiles whilst supporting local farmers and regenerative farming practices
$12,950 spent14% of program spendingAim for Zero: Ran waste sorting stations at a monthly outdoor event over a 6 month period to demonstrate how to reduce upstream waste through materials selection and how to manage and separate downstream waste for the least negative outcome.
$14,801 spent16% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $92,020.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $11k to $48k (+335%).
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.
85% of Spokane Zero Waste’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Spokane Zero Waste’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
Spokane Zero Waste leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
84% 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 Spokane Zero Waste.
“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
100% of Spokane Zero Waste's grant income comes from Washington funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Spokane Zero Waste has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Spokane Zero Waste
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.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Spokane Zero Waste: 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 Spokane Zero Waste?
- Spokane Zero Waste (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,495 to it, the largest being Multi-Ethnic Business Association ($16,995). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Spokane Zero Waste have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $36,495 in grants to Spokane Zero Waste, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Spokane Zero Waste?
- Multi-Ethnic Business Association is the largest funder on record, with $16,995 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Spokane Zero Waste 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 2024–2025), 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