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WASHINGTON STATE CHILD CARE RESOURCE & REFERRAL NETWORK DBA CHILD CARE AWARE WA
WASHINGTON STATE CHILD CARE RESOURCE & REFERRAL NETWORK DBA CHILD CARE AWARE WA (Washington) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,429,219 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($2,635,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $37M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $5.4M
- Net assets
- $3.7M
What Washington State Child Care Resource & Referral Network Dba Child Care Aware Wa does
Mission
Child care aware of washington provides thorough and independent information and support for families seeking quality child care, for child care programs seeking to improve quality, and for effective policy making.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Washington state child care resource and referral network (dba child care aware of washington) is our state's most thorough and accessible source of information and support for families seeking quality child care. Cca of wa is a trusted partner for child care professionals offering culturally responsive coaching and professional development services. Our services are delivered through a statewide network of locally based partners to enhance child care quality and consistency statewide. We strategically customize our services, collect and analyze performance data, inform and guide public policy, and provide unique leadership to support the child care system.
$30,428,797 spent92% of program spendingChild care aware of washington calls on the legislature to invest in child care access and affordability in order to expedite our economic recovery from the pandemic, and: reduce copays for families eligible for working connections child care so more parents can afford to work, expand child care assistance for families above 200% fpl so essential workers can afford to work, expand supports for family, friends & neighbor caregivers so they can provide critical early education.
$2,568,325 spent8% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $32,997,122.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $6.8M to $10M (+49%).
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: 2018 99% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 97% · 2022 98% · 2023 95% · 2024 93% · 2025 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Deeann Puffert
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $583k → $1.9M.
4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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 STATE CHILD CARE RESOURCE & REFERRAL NETWORK DBA CHILD CARE AWARE WA’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 STATE CHILD CARE RESOURCE & REFERRAL NETWORK DBA CHILD CARE AWARE WA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
91% 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 STATE CHILD CARE RESOURCE & REFERRAL NETWORK DBA CHILD CARE AWARE WA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 55% · 2021 70% · 2022 66% · 2023 51% — 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
50% of WASHINGTON STATE CHILD CARE RESOURCE & REFERRAL NETWORK DBA CHILD CARE AWARE WA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
75% of WASHINGTON STATE CHILD CARE RESOURCE & REFERRAL NETWORK DBA CHILD CARE AWARE WA'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. Of the $1.4M that is directly attributable, 85% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like WASHINGTON STATE CHILD CARE RESOURCE & REFERRAL NETWORK DBA CHILD CARE AWARE WA
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In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WASHINGTON STATE CHILD CARE RESOURCE & REFERRAL NETWORK DBA CHILD CARE AWARE WA: 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 STATE CHILD CARE RESOURCE & REFERRAL NETWORK DBA CHILD CARE AWARE WA?
- WASHINGTON STATE CHILD CARE RESOURCE & REFERRAL NETWORK DBA CHILD CARE AWARE WA (Washington) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,429,219 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($2,635,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WASHINGTON STATE CHILD CARE RESOURCE & REFERRAL NETWORK DBA CHILD CARE AWARE WA have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $5,429,219 in grants to WASHINGTON STATE CHILD CARE RESOURCE & REFERRAL NETWORK DBA CHILD CARE AWARE WA, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WASHINGTON STATE CHILD CARE RESOURCE & REFERRAL NETWORK DBA CHILD CARE AWARE WA?
- GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,635,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WASHINGTON STATE CHILD CARE RESOURCE & REFERRAL NETWORK DBA CHILD CARE AWARE WA 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 10 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