Washington · Nonprofit
WASHINGTON POISON CENTER
WASHINGTON POISON CENTER (Washington) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $773,352 to it, the largest being SWEDISH HEALTH SERVICES ($181,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.8M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $773k
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Washington Poison Center does
Mission
To prevent and reduce harm from poisoning through expertise, collaboration, and education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Poisonings can happen to anyone. Washington Poison Center (wapc) is here to help. Wapc is a statewide, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing and reducing harm from poisonings and overdoses. Our expert staff of pharmacists, nurses, and physician toxicologists are a reliable and consistent resource for timely, relevant, and life-saving information for anyone from parents and seniors to healthcare professionals and educators. We remain up-to-date on emerging trends and clinical guidelines to make sure we are offering the best support, education, and guidance to all washingtonians, when they need it. As one of 53 accredited poison centers in the united states, wapc provides three main services: a 24/7/365 telephone helpline, poison prevention and harm reduction education, and emergency preparedness support. Our poison helpline (1-800-222-1222) helps over 60,000 people every year navigate questions and crises after accidental ingestions, substance use, intentional overdose, medication mistakes, and more. Callers immediately speak with a specially trained healthcare professional, who guides them through every step until resolution. Approximately one quarter of wapc…
$5,160,297 spent$367,715 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,160,297.
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 2019 to 2020, from $3.3M to $4.0M (+21%).
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 81% · 2019 81% · 2020 82% · 2021 86% · 2022 88% · 2023 88% · 2024 81% · 2025 82%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of WASHINGTON POISON CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Scott Phillips
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $9k → $55k.
2 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 POISON CENTER’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
WASHINGTON POISON CENTER 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
96% 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 POISON CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 52% · 2019 49% · 2020 37% · 2021 40% · 2022 47% · 2023 36% — 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
36% of WASHINGTON POISON CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
85% of WASHINGTON POISON CENTER's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 POISON CENTER is better cushioned 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
Government funding WASHINGTON POISON CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.2M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$4.2M
- Department of Justice$16k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like WASHINGTON POISON CENTER
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 WASHINGTON POISON CENTER: 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 POISON CENTER?
- WASHINGTON POISON CENTER (Washington) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $773,352 to it, the largest being SWEDISH HEALTH SERVICES ($181,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WASHINGTON POISON CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $773,352 in grants to WASHINGTON POISON CENTER, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WASHINGTON POISON CENTER?
- SWEDISH HEALTH SERVICES is the largest funder on record, with $181,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WASHINGTON POISON CENTER 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 15 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