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FOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI

EIN 91-6073519 BELLINGHAM, WA

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Revenue 2024
$12,066,436
Expenses 2024
$25,813,028

Program services were 88.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B43
Classification
1000
Street
OLD MAIN 430 516 HIGH STREET

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE FOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI IS A NON-PROFIT, PUBLIC 501(C)(3) ORGANIZATION THAT ADVANCES THE MISSION OF THE UNIVERSITY: "BY INSPIRING OUR COMMUNITY TO GIVE, WE SECURE AND STEWARD PRIVATE RESOURCES TO ADVANCE SCHOLARSHIP, RESEARCH AND CREATIVITY."THE FOUNDATION WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1966 AS A VEHICLE TO RECEIVE AND ENCOURAGE PRIVATE GIVING TO WWU. THE FOUNDATION IS LED BY A GROUP OF DEDICATED BOARD MEMBERS WHO GROW AWARENESS OF THE IMPORTANCE OF PRIVATE SUPPORT TO PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS. THESE ALUMNI, PARENT AND COMMUNITY LEADERS BRING THEIR EXPERIENCES IN BUSINESS, EDUCATION, SCIENCE, AND NON-PROFITS AND SHARE THE COMMON MISSION OF ENGAGING NEW FRIENDS FOR WESTERN WHILE ALSO STEWARDING THE MORE THAN $175 MILLION IN ASSETS UNDER THE FOUNDATION'S MANAGEMENT. GIFTS FUND STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS, AS WELL AS PROGRAM AND FACULTY MEMBER SUPPORT.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE FOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI IS A NON-PROFIT, PUBLIC 501(C)(3) CORPORATION THAT EXISTS TO ENCOURAGE, SECURE AND STEWARD PRIVATE FINANCIAL RESOURCES THAT SUPPORT THE ACADEMIC MISSION OF WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY.

  • Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

    Expenses $5,151,763 · Grants $5,151,763

  • HIGHER EDUCATION: PROVIDE OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES TO WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY TO INCLUDE EQUIPMENT PURCHASES, FACULTY AND STUDENT TRAVEL, CONFERENCES, HONORARIA, SUPPLIES, AND OTHER.

    Expenses $17,567,716 · Grants $11,108,358 · Revenue $2,094,102

  • HIGHER EDUCATION: GRANT GIFTS OF IN-KIND PROPERTY RECEIVED FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY TO INCLUDE COMPUTER HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE, TECHNICAL EQUIPMENT, ART COLLECTIONS AND GALLERY, LIBRARY ADDITIONS AND OTHER.

    Expenses $133,550 · Grants $133,550

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Scot Studebaker

    BOARD CHAIR & VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Sydney Hunsdale

    PAST CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Andrea Sturm

    PAST CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Tony George

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Colette Taylor

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Michael Bayless

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Nabeel Chowdhury

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Edward Coe

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Brandy Corujo

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Carol Francisco

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Hamraj Ghumman

    FINANCE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Greg Grant

    STRATEGIC INITIATIVE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Christy Johnson

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Brett Jordan

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jennifer Kutcher

    PHILANTHROPY CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Mason Luvera

    ENGAGEMENT CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Warren Michelsen

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jody Mull

    PUBLIC ADVOCACY CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Paula Radloff

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Tasha Repp

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Vini Samuel

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Ingrid Sarapuu

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Brinton Scott

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Bart Shilvock

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Janis Velasquez-Farmer

    ADEI CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

The first 25 listed. Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $12,066,436
    Expenses
    $25,813,028
    Contributions
    $9,300,079
    Grants paid
    $16,393,671
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $15,272,931
    Expenses
    $14,754,902
    Contributions
    $12,397,165
    Grants paid
    $6,705,508
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $24,719,929
    Expenses
    $12,632,077
    Contributions
    $22,781,724
    Grants paid
    $5,478,795

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $12,946,101
    Expenses
    $12,000,042
    Assets (EOY)
    $143,878,599
  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,863,334
    Expenses
    $9,291,319
    Assets (EOY)
    $158,845,828
  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $18,847,568
    Expenses
    $9,043,316
    Assets (EOY)
    $129,729,214
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $14,601,658
    Expenses
    $9,639,000
    Assets (EOY)
    $118,951,397
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $24,966,853
    Expenses
    $21,816,235
    Assets (EOY)
    $109,796,166

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

  • WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

    $11,108,358

    2024 ALL GRANTS ARE MADE TO SUPPORT THE MISSION OF WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY.

  • WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

    $0

    2022 ALL GRANTS ARE MADE TO SUPPORT THE MISSION OF WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. GRANTS ARE MADE TO SUPPORT ACADEMIC PROGRAMS AT THE UNIVERSITY.

  • WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

    $0

    2023 ALL GRANTS ARE MADE TO SUPPORT THE MISSION OF WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. GRANTS ARE MADE TO SUPPORT ACADEMIC PROGRAMS AT THE UNIVERSITY.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Related corporations and trusts on its 2024 return

  • CHARITABLE UNITRUST(5)

    T · INVESTMENTS · WA

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.