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WESTERN BUILDING MATERIAL ASSOCIATION

WESTERN BUILDING MATERIAL ASSOCIATION (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $435,114 to it, the largest being Link Educational Scholarship Fund ($435,114). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$696k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$435k
Net assets
$1.9M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%
01The 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($452k) Expenses 100 ($445k) Net assets 100 ($558k)2018 Revenue 114 ($517k) Expenses 108 ($483k) Net assets 97 ($541k)2019 Revenue 118 ($533k) Expenses 115 ($513k) Net assets 99 ($555k)2020 Revenue 113 ($509k) Expenses 108 ($481k) Net assets 101 ($565k)2021 Revenue 101 ($457k) Expenses 94 ($418k) Net assets 121 ($674k)2022 Revenue 333 ($1.5M) Expenses 108 ($481k) Net assets 278 ($1.6M)2023 Revenue 127 ($573k) Expenses 122 ($543k) Net assets 288 ($1.6M)2024 Revenue 126 ($567k) Expenses 118 ($527k) Net assets 302 ($1.7M)2025 Revenue 154 ($696k) Expenses 129 ($575k) Net assets 335 ($1.9M)
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Revenue (154)Expenses (129)Net assets (335)

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$6k
’17
$34k
’18
$20k
’19
$28k
’20
$39k
’21
$1.0M
’22
$30k
’23
$40k
’24
$121k
’25
2.9
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $32k → $70k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of WESTERN BUILDING MATERIAL ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.

Where its funders are

100% of WESTERN BUILDING MATERIAL ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Washington funders.

WA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Washington out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.

03Its place in the field

Organizations like WESTERN BUILDING MATERIAL 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

04Profile & governance

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

Governance

22
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Link Educational Scholarship Fund · corp_trust

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WESTERN BUILDING MATERIAL 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 WESTERN BUILDING MATERIAL ASSOCIATION?
WESTERN BUILDING MATERIAL ASSOCIATION (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $435,114 to it, the largest being Link Educational Scholarship Fund ($435,114). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WESTERN BUILDING MATERIAL ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $435,114 in grants to WESTERN BUILDING MATERIAL ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WESTERN BUILDING MATERIAL ASSOCIATION?
Link Educational Scholarship Fund is the largest funder on record, with $435,114 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WESTERN BUILDING MATERIAL 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing