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WHALE INC

WHALE INC (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $381,426 to it, the largest being THE WELD TRUST ($127,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.1M
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$381k
Net assets
$-107087
3/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%
01What it does

What Whale Inc does

Mission

At whale, we build inclusive communities where families who have children with delays/disabilities thrive through equal opportunities to live, learn & play

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. At whale, we build inclusive communities where families who have children with delays/disabilities thrive through equal opportunities to live, learn & play

  2. At whale, we build inclusive communities where families who have children with delays/disabilities thrive through equal opportunities to live, learn & play

    $1,072,453 spent
    100% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,072,453.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.

100 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($93k) Expenses 100 ($47k) Net assets 100 ($48k)2024 Revenue 681 ($635k) Expenses 1415 ($668k) Net assets 32 ($16k)2025 Revenue 1193 ($1.1M) Expenses 2617 ($1.2M) Net assets -223 ($-107087)
202320242025
Revenue (1193)Expenses (2617)Net assets (-223)Peer revenue range

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 $48k to $571k (+1088%).

$48k
$571k
$554k
202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2024 11% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

58% of WHALE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$46k
’23
−$32k
’24
−$123k
’25
0.1
months of
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.

20242025
Listed66
Joined·+0
No longer listed·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 WHALE INC’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

WHALE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

67% 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 WHALE INC.

33%
largest funder
83%
top three
~4
effective funders

“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

100% of WHALE INC's grant income comes from Colorado funders.

CO

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $129k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

WHALE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−11% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)245% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like WHALE INC

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 Colorado

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 6%Fundraising 7%

Governance

6
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WHALE INC: 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 WHALE INC?
WHALE INC (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $381,426 to it, the largest being THE WELD TRUST ($127,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WHALE INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $381,426 in grants to WHALE INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WHALE INC?
THE WELD TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $127,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WHALE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 5 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