Washington · Nonprofit
STRONGERTOWNS
STRONGERTOWNS (Washington) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $371,688 to it, the largest being JEFFERSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($246,270). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $426k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $372k
- Net assets
- $322k
What Strongertowns does
Mission
Education and youth social wellness
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Community build is a community-started and community-run organization that mobilizes volunteer resources to build projects that will benefit those who are underserved in the community.
$62,330 spent32% of program spendingThe production alliance: building community through celebration, the tpa works with non-profit organizations, local businesses, and government agencies to collaboratively produce annual events that uphold cultural traditions and strengthen resiliency for thousands of residents within jefferson county.
$60,415 spent31% of program spendingThe benji project: deliver professionally developed seminars for local youth to increase confidence and self compassion with a goal of increasing communication and decreasing teen suicide. These seminars have been attended by hundreds of youth through a mix of private and school events.
$42,484 spent21% of program spendingOther program services 4: skilmation: community mentoring and tutoring service provides access to local skilled individuals for mentoring as well as community engagement for local schools. Other program services 5: yea music provides youth of east jefferson county with musical opportunities including instruments, instruction and performances.
$32,484 spent16% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $197,713.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $246k to $324k (+32%).
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 38% · 2022 18% · 2023 25% · 2024 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
51% of STRONGERTOWNS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $8k → $105k.
6 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 STRONGERTOWNS’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
STRONGERTOWNS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 STRONGERTOWNS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 85% · 2021 66% · 2022 50% · 2023 43% — 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
50% of STRONGERTOWNS's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 33% 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
83% of STRONGERTOWNS'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 $65k that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $307k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
STRONGERTOWNS receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $372k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like STRONGERTOWNS
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
42% 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 STRONGERTOWNS: 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 STRONGERTOWNS?
- STRONGERTOWNS (Washington) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $371,688 to it, the largest being JEFFERSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($246,270). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does STRONGERTOWNS have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $371,688 in grants to STRONGERTOWNS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STRONGERTOWNS?
- JEFFERSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $246,270 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STRONGERTOWNS 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 9 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