Washington · Nonprofit
WASHINGTON STATE MICROENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION
WASHINGTON STATE MICROENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $9,809 to it, the largest being ALLIANCE 2005 ($9,809). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.0M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $3.3M
What Washington State Microenterprise Association does
Mission
Our mission is to strengthen economic development systems that support the growth of strong and effective microenterprise development organizations. We do this through: building a coalition of organizations, agencies and individuals dedicated to microenterprise development; providing leadership to the voice of microenterprise practitioners; promoting microenterprise as a viable economic development tool; supporting the capasity of microenterprise support organizations in providing; self-employment education and assistance, access to capital and micro-lending, business creation and expansion support, job creation, economic sel-sufficiency and financial education.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Wsma provides capacity building, networking and grants to microenterprise development organizations (mdos) that support businesses with five or fewer employees throughout wa state.
$2,686,943 spentof which $2,445,732 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,686,943.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2023 to 2024, from $1.0M to $3.3M (+219%).
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: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% · 2024 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of WASHINGTON STATE MICROENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of WASHINGTON STATE MICROENTERPRISE 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 STATE MICROENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Washington funders.
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.
Against its field
WASHINGTON STATE MICROENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like WASHINGTON STATE MICROENTERPRISE 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 STATE MICROENTERPRISE 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 STATE MICROENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION?
- WASHINGTON STATE MICROENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $9,809 to it, the largest being ALLIANCE 2005 ($9,809). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WASHINGTON STATE MICROENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $9,809 in grants to WASHINGTON STATE MICROENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION.
- Who is the largest funder of WASHINGTON STATE MICROENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION?
- ALLIANCE 2005 is the largest funder on record, with $9,809 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WASHINGTON STATE MICROENTERPRISE 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 2019–2024), 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