Washington · Nonprofit
WASHINGTON ALLIANCE FOR BETTER SCHOOLS
WASHINGTON ALLIANCE FOR BETTER SCHOOLS (Washington) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,341,579 to it, the largest being PROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES - WASHINGTON ($779,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Washington Alliance for Better Schools does
Mission
Washington Alliance for Better Schools is a 501(c)(3) non-for-profit organization established in 1995. We lead a partnership of school districts, industry, and community dedicated to ensuring students furthest from opportunity can pursue a future that embraces their strengths, passions, and dreams. Washington Alliance for Better Schools is the recipient of educationally-based state, federal and private grants which provide funding for the implementation, evaluation and reporting of each grant received.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Wabs' 21st century community learning centers (21st cclc) helps elementary school students develop to their full academic, social, and physical potential. With title iv funds, wabs provides high quality after school and summer school opportunities in the marysville school districts to help students meet state and local academic standards in core content areas. This includes homework help and academic support in math and reading. In addition to providing academic and enrichment support, the 21st cclcs provide social emotional learning support for students. Students participate in the program at no-cost and are provided with meals and transportation. Additionally, wabs provides parents and families demand-driven educational opportunities.
$906,805 spent33% of program spendingTeach2connect educator program is a six month long educator professional development program that brings together employer mentors and educators to strengthen student learning experiences through authentic and relevant workplace connections. Partnering teachers with industry mentors ensure that content brought to the classroom is relevant to real-world careers and enhances student knowledge of career pathways. Teachers visit their industry mentors' work-site and engage in conversations and activities over the course of the program to learn about industry needs, trends, challenges and career pathway information that they bring back into the classroom to share with their students. Educators take their classroom on a field trip to an industry employer to help students better understand the relevance of classroom learning to the world of work. Throughout the program, teachers integrate career connected learning (ccl) into interactions with students and course curricula while ensuring inclusive, equity-centered design and implementation.the natural leaders program is a family-centered, family-led empowerment program working with underserved families, with a focus on bipoc, immigrant,…
$789,006 spent28% of program spendingCareer tours and shadows provide on-site, work-based learning opportunities to students who are furthest from opportunity, including bipoc, low-income, and first generation. Throughout the 2025-2026 school year, over 3,500 students from king, pierce, snohomish, and spokane counties will participate in these interactive, career-focused learning events.career launch programs combine meaningful, high-quality, paid on-the-job experience with classroom learning, creating a pathway to careers that provide upward mobility and family-sustaining wages. We know that while 70% of available jobs require a post-secondary credential, only 40% of high school graduates earn such a degree, certificate, or formal training. This means 60% of students are not attaining the post-secondary credentials needed to lead them to economic success. Wabs partners with the healthcare industry leadership table (hilt) to deliver the student experience package. The student experience package (sep) provides healthcare industry-led experiences for bipoc, low-income, and first-generation students. Specifically, students learn from healthcare professionals about high-demand healthcare careers through four healthcare…
$708,865 spent26% of program spendingCareer connect washington regional network for king and pierce counties. Led by Washington Alliance for Better Schools, the king-pierce regional network helps young people, especially those furthest from opportunity, envision and achieve high opportunity careers by leading the region's strategy to build out career connected learning programs leading to high demand careers. Serving about 100 partners annually, the network provides partnership and technical support for nonprofits and other organizations in applying for state-funded program builder grants to build career connected learning programs serving youth. The regional network also develops partnerships with industry, k-12 districts, postsecondary institutions, and labor to increase broadscale onsite work-based learning experiences (such as worksite tours, job shadows, postsecondary learning lunches, and internships) for k-12 students. Limitless' is a learning network of partnerships across washington state focused on improving high school to postsecondary enrollment rates.
$364,671 spent13% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,769,347.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.2M to $1.9M (+60%).
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 49% · 2018 38% · 2019 38% · 2020 19% · 2021 61% · 2022 55% · 2023 49% · 2024 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of WASHINGTON ALLIANCE FOR BETTER SCHOOLS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Emily Yim
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $114k → $513k.
6 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 WASHINGTON ALLIANCE FOR BETTER SCHOOLS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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
WASHINGTON ALLIANCE FOR BETTER SCHOOLS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
61% 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 WASHINGTON ALLIANCE FOR BETTER SCHOOLS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 42% · 2019 58% · 2020 29% · 2021 40% · 2022 34% · 2023 25% — 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
31% of WASHINGTON ALLIANCE FOR BETTER SCHOOLS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
76% of WASHINGTON ALLIANCE FOR BETTER SCHOOLS's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $266k 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
WASHINGTON ALLIANCE FOR BETTER SCHOOLS is better cushioned than half of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WASHINGTON ALLIANCE FOR BETTER SCHOOLS?
- WASHINGTON ALLIANCE FOR BETTER SCHOOLS (Washington) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,341,579 to it, the largest being PROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES - WASHINGTON ($779,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WASHINGTON ALLIANCE FOR BETTER SCHOOLS have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $3,341,579 in grants to WASHINGTON ALLIANCE FOR BETTER SCHOOLS, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WASHINGTON ALLIANCE FOR BETTER SCHOOLS?
- PROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES - WASHINGTON is the largest funder on record, with $779,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WASHINGTON ALLIANCE FOR BETTER SCHOOLS 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 37 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing