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WASHINGTON STATE SCIENCE & ENGINEERING FAIR
WASHINGTON STATE SCIENCE & ENGINEERING FAIR (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $90,518 to it, the largest being NATIONAL SCIENCE TEACHING ASSOCIATION ($79,759). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $152k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $91k
- Net assets
- $60k
What Washington State Science & Engineering Fair does
Mission
Student science fair
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Educational outreach advocating support to local school fairs and isef affiliated washington state regional fairs. Provides an annual venue for all students grades 1-12.
$192,186 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $192,186.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $216k to $100k (−54%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Caroline Stein
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $113 → $49k.
1 of 3 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 STATE SCIENCE & ENGINEERING FAIR’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 SCIENCE & ENGINEERING FAIR leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
89% 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 SCIENCE & ENGINEERING FAIR.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 81% · 2022 92% · 2023 96% — 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.
Where its funders are
WASHINGTON STATE SCIENCE & ENGINEERING FAIR draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $464 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.
Organizations like WASHINGTON STATE SCIENCE & ENGINEERING FAIR
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.
Public support
98%
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 SCIENCE & ENGINEERING FAIR: 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 SCIENCE & ENGINEERING FAIR?
- WASHINGTON STATE SCIENCE & ENGINEERING FAIR (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $90,518 to it, the largest being NATIONAL SCIENCE TEACHING ASSOCIATION ($79,759). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WASHINGTON STATE SCIENCE & ENGINEERING FAIR have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $90,518 in grants to WASHINGTON STATE SCIENCE & ENGINEERING FAIR, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WASHINGTON STATE SCIENCE & ENGINEERING FAIR?
- NATIONAL SCIENCE TEACHING ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $79,759 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WASHINGTON STATE SCIENCE & ENGINEERING FAIR 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 3 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