Washington · Nonprofit
VALLEY ALCOHOL COUNCIL dba MERIT RESOURCE SERVICES
VALLEY ALCOHOL COUNCIL dba MERIT RESOURCE SERVICES (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $551,984 to it, the largest being GREATER COLUMBIA ACCOUNTABLE COMMUNITY OF HEALTH ($535,184). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.4M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $552k
- Net assets
- $8.1M
What VALLEY ALCOHOL COUNCIL dba MERIT RESOURCE SERVICES does
Mission
Substance abuse counseling and treatment
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Outpatient substance abuse treatment, employer and student assistance /prevention programs throughout yakima, kittitas, benton and franklin counties in washinton state
$6,539,948 spent$9,352,313 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,539,948.
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 $6.1M to $7.8M (+28%).
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 85% · 2018 67% · 2019 81% · 2020 80% · 2021 85% · 2022 89% · 2023 86% · 2024 93% · 2025 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of VALLEY ALCOHOL COUNCIL dba MERIT RESOURCE SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Shereen Hunt
Executive director
Board chair
John Brotherton
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $17k → $59k.
From the IRS filings of VALLEY ALCOHOL COUNCIL dba MERIT RESOURCE SERVICES’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
VALLEY ALCOHOL COUNCIL dba MERIT RESOURCE SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 VALLEY ALCOHOL COUNCIL dba MERIT RESOURCE SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“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 VALLEY ALCOHOL COUNCIL dba MERIT RESOURCE 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. 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
VALLEY ALCOHOL COUNCIL dba MERIT RESOURCE SERVICES runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like VALLEY ALCOHOL COUNCIL dba MERIT RESOURCE 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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
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 VALLEY ALCOHOL COUNCIL dba MERIT RESOURCE 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 VALLEY ALCOHOL COUNCIL dba MERIT RESOURCE SERVICES?
- VALLEY ALCOHOL COUNCIL dba MERIT RESOURCE SERVICES (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $551,984 to it, the largest being GREATER COLUMBIA ACCOUNTABLE COMMUNITY OF HEALTH ($535,184). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VALLEY ALCOHOL COUNCIL dba MERIT RESOURCE SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $551,984 in grants to VALLEY ALCOHOL COUNCIL dba MERIT RESOURCE SERVICES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VALLEY ALCOHOL COUNCIL dba MERIT RESOURCE SERVICES?
- GREATER COLUMBIA ACCOUNTABLE COMMUNITY OF HEALTH is the largest funder on record, with $535,184 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VALLEY ALCOHOL COUNCIL dba MERIT RESOURCE 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 2 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