Washington · Nonprofit
WHATCOM SPORTS & RECREATION
WHATCOM SPORTS & RECREATION (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,125 to it, the largest being NDC HOUSING & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION - GROUP RETURN ($12,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
WHATCOM SPORTS & RECREATION is better cushioned than half of the 1,432 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,432 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Chuckanut Health Foundationlocalportfolio match
- United Way of Whatcom Countylocalportfolio match
- Whatcom Community Foundationlocalportfolio match
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.
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: 2021 5% · 2022 22% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
4% of WHATCOM SPORTS & RECREATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $13k → $11k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $123k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Whatcom County Youth Soccer Association). These are real filings, and they are not money WHATCOM SPORTS & RECREATION raised.
From the IRS filings of WHATCOM SPORTS & RECREATION’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 SPORTS & RECREATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% 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
100% 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 SPORTS & RECREATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“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
WHATCOM SPORTS & RECREATION draws 54% 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. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Chuckanut Health Foundationlocalportfolio matchWA · funds 54 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Whatcom Countylocalportfolio matchWA · funds 34 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Whatcom Community Foundationlocalportfolio matchWA · funds 160 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Eleanor and Henry Jansen Foundationlocalportfolio matchWA · funds 31 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Mount Baker Foundationlocalportfolio matchWA · funds 45 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Peach Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchWA · backs 12 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Whatcom Educational Credit Unionlocalportfolio matchWA · funds 19 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Jerry H Walton Foundationlocalportfolio matchWA · funds 24 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- First Fed Foundationlocalportfolio matchWA · funds 35 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Seattle Seahawks Charitable Foundationshared fundersWA · backs 11 organizations that share your funders
- James M Lea Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ben B Cheney Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like WHATCOM SPORTS & RECREATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
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 WHATCOM SPORTS & RECREATION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds WHATCOM SPORTS & RECREATION?
- WHATCOM SPORTS & RECREATION (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,125 to it, the largest being NDC HOUSING & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION - GROUP RETURN ($12,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WHATCOM SPORTS & RECREATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $23,125 in grants to WHATCOM SPORTS & RECREATION.
- Who is the largest funder of WHATCOM SPORTS & RECREATION?
- NDC HOUSING & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION - GROUP RETURN is the largest funder on record, with $12,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WHATCOM SPORTS & RECREATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing