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WASHINGTON SCIENCE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION

WASHINGTON SCIENCE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$80k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$10k
Net assets
$217k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 16%
01What it does

What Washington Science Teachers Association does

Mission

The Washington Science Teachers Association is a non-profit organization dedicated to advocating and promoting quality science education at all levels of instruction through promoting professional knowledge and growth, maintaining an ongoing communication network for science educators, exploring and supporting curriculum development, recognizing and awarding excellence, creating public awareness of the importance of quality science education, and forming an organized voice on pertinent legislative policies and issues.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Provide learning opportunities for teachers by planning and holding a conference offering professional development opportunities for teachers. Also offering clock hours for teachers' professional development, and other activities designed to encourage and enable quality science teaching.

    $29,702 spent
    81% of program spending
  2. To award scholarships and honors to outstanding science teachers

    $4,566 spent
    13% of program spending
  3. Faciliate communications among science teachers across the state of washington by producing professional newsletters and through the organization's website.

    $2,219 spent
    6% of program spending
  4. Represent science teachers in washington state at local, state, and national events designed to promote quality science education

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $36,487.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($31k) Expenses 100 ($36k) Net assets 100 ($192k)2018 Revenue 245 ($77k) Expenses 221 ($79k) Net assets 99 ($190k)2019 Revenue 219 ($69k) Expenses 242 ($87k) Net assets 89 ($171k)2020 Revenue 202 ($64k) Expenses 138 ($50k) Net assets 97 ($185k)2021 Revenue 202 ($63k) Expenses 112 ($40k) Net assets 109 ($208k)2022 Revenue 68 ($21k) Expenses 199 ($72k) Net assets 82 ($158k)2023 Revenue 262 ($83k) Expenses 214 ($77k) Net assets 85 ($164k)2024 Revenue 180 ($57k) Expenses 90 ($32k) Net assets 98 ($188k)2025 Revenue 253 ($80k) Expenses 141 ($51k) Net assets 113 ($217k)
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Revenue (253)Expenses (141)Net assets (113)Peer revenue range

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 $208k to $158k (−24%).

$192k
$190k
$171k
$185k
$208k
$158k
$164k
$188k
$217k
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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.

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2018
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2020
2021
2022
2023
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

7% of WASHINGTON SCIENCE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$5k
’17
−$2k
’18
−$18k
’19
$14k
’20
$23k
’21
−$50k
’22
$6k
’23
$24k
’24
$29k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2018: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $5k.

Funder
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total
funders
1
1

1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 SCIENCE TEACHERS 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

100% of WASHINGTON SCIENCE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

WASHINGTON SCIENCE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin36% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

91%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WA

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Questions and answers

Who funds WASHINGTON SCIENCE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION?
WASHINGTON SCIENCE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does WASHINGTON SCIENCE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to WASHINGTON SCIENCE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WASHINGTON SCIENCE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION?
COLUMBUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WASHINGTON SCIENCE TEACHERS 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.

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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 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