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WHATCOM LITERACY COUNCIL

EIN 91-1220307 BELLINGHAM, WA

Largest nonprofits in Washington

Revenue 2025
$394,466
Expenses 2025
$237,398

Program services were 61.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
2000
Street
PO BOX 1292

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 · 2025

Mission

TO TEACH ADULTS TO READ, WRITE AND SPEAK ENGLISH.

  • TUTOR RECRUITMENT, TRAINING AND SUPPORT, STUDENT RECRUITMENT, LEARNING PLAN, MATCHING STUDENT TO TUTOR PAIR. IN 2025, WLC COORDINATED 116 VOLUNTEERS AND SERVED 1,187 ADULT CLIENTS.

    Expenses $146,716

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Katherine Freimund

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $107,525
    From this org
    $96,330
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,195
    Hours/week
    40

  • Paqui Paredes Mendez

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michael Cox

    VICE PRESIDE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kaitlyn Gilmore

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Carol Choulochas

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Brian Aguilar

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Stuar Andrade

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Brent Carbajal

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Gloria Garcia

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dr Bill Gerritz

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Catalina Hope

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Andres Parra

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $394,466
    Expenses
    $237,398
    Contributions
    $340,622
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $422,389
    Expenses
    $254,903
    Contributions
    $375,798
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $231,326
    Expenses
    $246,432
    Contributions
    $172,554
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $265,621
    Expenses
    $237,140
    Contributions
    $236,185
    Grants paid
    $0

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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $200,502
    Expenses
    $193,663
    Assets (EOY)
    $765,382

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $365,759
    Expenses
    $188,064
    Assets (EOY)
    $702,245

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $255,853
    Expenses
    $191,428
    Assets (EOY)
    $498,949

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $258,542
    Expenses
    $179,919
    Assets (EOY)
    $406,019

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $194,878
    Expenses
    $154,973
    Assets (EOY)
    $342,652

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $249,869
    Expenses
    $160,953
    Assets (EOY)
    $285,108

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $199,974
    Expenses
    $155,606
    Assets (EOY)
    $193,651

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $179,862
    Expenses
    $155,887
    Assets (EOY)
    $151,463

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $143,785
    Expenses
    $172,635
    Assets (EOY)
    $135,602

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $171,969
    Assets (EOY)
    $159,033

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

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

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

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.