Washington · Nonprofit
WHATCOM FAMILY & COMMUNITY NETWORK
WHATCOM FAMILY & COMMUNITY NETWORK (Washington) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,478,682 to it, the largest being Mount Baker Foundation ($756,205). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $605k
What Whatcom Family & Community Network does
Mission
Wfcn promotes the wellbeing of children, youth, and families by convening and supporting communities to build their capacity.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Prevention services: prevention services coordination through whatcom prevention coalition and mount baker community coalition. Engage broad sector community voices to increase protective factors and decrease risk factors to prevent youth substance use and promote youth mental health. Coalitions provide prevention professional development, evidence-based programming via direct services, including leadership, community engagement opportunities, and youth suicide prevention to middle and high school-aged youth. Over 4786 individuals, including 1934 youth, were served in 2024.
$653,019 spentof which $2,546 as grants63% of program spendingFiscal and support services: provides fiscal and program support for mission-aligned community efforts, including grant support and strategic planning for grassroots and small-state nonprofits who need a 501c3 home to develop and increase community impact. Wfcn supported 8 efforts, including: roosevelt neighborhood resource center, perinatal maternal mental health taskforce, whatcom community health worker network, foothills community alliance, foothills communication hub, whatcom resource information collaborative, kendall summerfest, and bellingham folk festival. These programs outreach to thousands of historically underserved children, teens, and families.
$300,890 spentof which $1,955 as grants$60 earned by the program29% of program spendingCommunity capacity building: community capacity building services convene community to increase awareness, educate about, and apply trauma informed, resilience and hope building frameworks to community prevention strategies. 287 individuals were trained. Solutions to address family risk factors were developed and advanced, to increase positive childhood experiences for the purpose of increasing mental wellbeing and decreasing risk of exposure to adverse childhood experiences that can lead to substance use and poor mental health outcomes.
$84,007 spent$59,751 earned by the program8% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,037,916.
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 2020 to 2021, from $598k to $884k (+48%).
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: 2017 98% · 2018 89% · 2019 82% · 2020 65% · 2021 52% · 2022 53% · 2023 39% · 2024 56%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of WHATCOM FAMILY & COMMUNITY NETWORK’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Kristi Warren Slette
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $8k → $352k.
3 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 WHATCOM FAMILY & COMMUNITY NETWORK’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
WHATCOM FAMILY & COMMUNITY NETWORK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
43% 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 WHATCOM FAMILY & COMMUNITY NETWORK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 53% · 2019 41% · 2020 34% · 2021 43% · 2022 97% · 2023 69% — 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.
How long its funders stay
27% of WHATCOM FAMILY & COMMUNITY NETWORK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
99% of WHATCOM FAMILY & COMMUNITY NETWORK's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $264k 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.
Against its field
WHATCOM FAMILY & COMMUNITY NETWORK is better cushioned than half of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding WHATCOM FAMILY & COMMUNITY NETWORK receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.0M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.0M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like WHATCOM FAMILY & COMMUNITY NETWORK
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 WHATCOM FAMILY & COMMUNITY NETWORK: 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 WHATCOM FAMILY & COMMUNITY NETWORK?
- WHATCOM FAMILY & COMMUNITY NETWORK (Washington) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,478,682 to it, the largest being Mount Baker Foundation ($756,205). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WHATCOM FAMILY & COMMUNITY NETWORK have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,478,682 in grants to WHATCOM FAMILY & COMMUNITY NETWORK, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WHATCOM FAMILY & COMMUNITY NETWORK?
- Mount Baker Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $756,205 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WHATCOM FAMILY & COMMUNITY NETWORK 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 15 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