Washington · Nonprofit
West African Community Council
West African Community Council (Washington) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,717,143 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ($1,200,908). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $3.7M
- Net assets
- $731k
What West African Community Council does
Mission
The West African Community Council WACC is dedicated to advocating for and supporting West African immigrants by preserving their cultural, social, and religious traditions. Its mission promotes a community where diverse backgrounds are respected, families have equal opportunities, and individuals are valued regardless of their origin, ethnicity, or gender.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community Services: WACC provides a range of culturally tailored services to support West African immigrants and underserved communities in Seattle. These include early childhood education through a multilingual preschool, immigration legal assistance, and labor rights education to protect vulnerable workers. The organization also offers family support programs, emergency food and rental aid, and civic engagement initiatives that empower individuals to participate in local governance and advocacy. Each service is designed to preserve cultural identity while promoting stability, opportunity, and inclusion.
$623,026 spent$373,574 earned by the program44% of program spendingFamily Support: WACC supports families through parenting workshops, home visits, and access to early learning resources, aiming to strengthen family bonds and improve child development outcomes.
$357,715 spent$497,721 earned by the program25% of program spendingImmigration Legal Services: They provide legal assistance for immigration-related issues, including help with asylum applications, work permits, and family reunification, ensuring community members can navigate complex legal systems.
$263,184 spent$99,487 earned by the program18% of program spendingOther Programs
$186,489 spent13% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,430,414.
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 2021 to 2022, from $927k to $1.8M (+99%).
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 29% · 2019 48% · 2020 11% · 2021 2% · 2022 1% · 2023 0% · 2024 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of West African Community Council’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Adja Phipps
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $27k → $205k.
4 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 West African Community Council’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 20 of 21 funders by total. 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
West African Community Council leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
94% 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 West African Community Council.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 55% · 2019 34% · 2020 27% · 2021 42% · 2022 39% · 2023 73% — growing more concentrated.
“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
33% of West African Community Council's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
95% of West African Community Council's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $845k 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.
Against its field
West African Community Council has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like West African Community Council
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
86% 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 West African Community Council: 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 West African Community Council?
- West African Community Council (Washington) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,717,143 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ($1,200,908). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does West African Community Council have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $3,717,143 in grants to West African Community Council, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of West African Community Council?
- UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $1,200,908 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like West African Community Council 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 21 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