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WASHINGTON EDUCATION ASSOCIATION

WASHINGTON EDUCATION ASSOCIATION (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $95,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL CENTER FOR TEACHER RESIDENCIES ($95,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$64M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$95k
Net assets
$11M
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Washington Education Association does

Mission

The mission of the Washington Education Association is to advance the professional interests of its members in order to make public education the best it can be for students, staff, and communities.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Governance/administration - to formulate association policy and to ensure implementation of the goals, objectives and activities of the association in accordance with the desires and needs of the membership. To provide governance with advice and counsel as prescribed in wea policy on the formulation of goals, objectives, policy and activities of the association in the following general areas: accreditation, certification, instruction, personnel, collective bargaining, state and federal legislation, human relations, and rights of school employees. To provide legal services and advice to wea, its staff and governance, local associations, and members; to protect and strengthen the legal and bargaining rights of school employees. Public policy center - to ensure that wea is a significant participant in the legislative process of the state and nation, obtain passage and implementation of legislation consistent with association goals and assure adequate resource allocations to improve salaries, conditions of work, and educational programs. Center for education quality: organizing and advocacy center - to provide program and staff services to assist individual school employees and…

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($40M) Expenses 100 ($41M) Net assets -383 ($-28254770)2018 Revenue 102 ($41M) Expenses 99 ($40M) Net assets -234 ($-17230521)2019 Revenue 101 ($41M) Expenses 94 ($38M) Net assets -464 ($-34227445)2020 Revenue 118 ($48M) Expenses 110 ($45M) Net assets -506 ($-37311260)2021 Revenue 121 ($49M) Expenses 108 ($44M) Net assets -213 ($-15710178)2022 Revenue 125 ($50M) Expenses 133 ($54M) Net assets -17 ($-1259610)2023 Revenue 140 ($57M) Expenses 137 ($56M) Net assets 100 ($7.4M)2024 Revenue 159 ($64M) Expenses 151 ($61M) Net assets 144 ($11M)
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Revenue (159)Expenses (151)Net assets (144)

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 $59M to $50M (−16%).

$43M
$43M
$51M
$58M
$59M
$50M
$46M
$48M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$244k
’17
$1.2M
’18
$2.9M
’19
$3.1M
’20
$4.9M
’21
−$3.4M
’22
$875k
’23
$3.1M
’24
4.8
months of
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.

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Listed9594102103101949898
Joined·+12+29+15+44+11+46+13
No longer listed·13211446184213
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'25*
total
funders
1

Left out of every figure on this page: $29M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest National Education Association of the United States). These are real filings, and they are not money WASHINGTON EDUCATION ASSOCIATION raised.

From the IRS filings of WASHINGTON EDUCATION ASSOCIATION’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.

Where its funders are

WASHINGTON EDUCATION ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 1 state in all.

IL

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like WASHINGTON EDUCATION ASSOCIATION

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Governance

82
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WASHINGTON EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: 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 WASHINGTON EDUCATION ASSOCIATION?
WASHINGTON EDUCATION ASSOCIATION (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $95,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL CENTER FOR TEACHER RESIDENCIES ($95,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WASHINGTON EDUCATION ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $95,000 in grants to WASHINGTON EDUCATION ASSOCIATION.
Who is the largest funder of WASHINGTON EDUCATION ASSOCIATION?
NATIONAL CENTER FOR TEACHER RESIDENCIES is the largest funder on record, with $95,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WASHINGTON EDUCATION ASSOCIATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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