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COMMUNITIES RISE

EIN 32-0098070 SEATTLE, WA

Revenue 2024
$1,733,570
Expenses 2024
$1,374,856

Program services were 64.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I80
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 28399

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

Communities Rise fosters movements to build power in communities impacted by systemic oppression. To create an equitable system, we pursue cross-sector collaboration, and provide capacity building and legal services for community organizations and microenterprises.

  • Capacity-Building: Communities Rise provides capacity-building services to nonprofit organizations that are led by and serving communities impacted by systemic oppression, primarily from Black, Indigenous, and People of Color communities in the following programs: 9-month nonprofit Capacity Building Cohort providing peer-to-peer learning, one-on-one coaching, and workshops to 8 grassroots community organizations; Fundraising Clinics providing one-on-one consultation with a fundraising professional to leaders of nonprofit organizations; Grant Writing Clinics providing one-on-one consultation with a grant writing professional to leaders of nonprofit organizations; and Collaboration with community partners to analyze capacity building service gaps and create a system of capacity building support and increased resources for BIPOC organizations and small businesses.

    Expenses $378,101 · Grants $56,000 · Revenue $30,240

  • Small Business and Nonprofit Legal Services: Communities Rise provides low-income small business owners and nonprofit organizations pro bono legal services on business transactional matters through our limited engagement legal clinics or through direct representation. Communities Rise receives and screens applications for pro bono legal services and determines if the matter is appropriate for our monthly legal clinics (1-hour limited engagement legal consultation) or in-depth assistance through direct representation. Communities Rise matches legal services clients with a volunteer attorney or an in-house Communities Rise attorney.

    Expenses $211,781 · Revenue $28,702

  • Education & Training: Communities Rise hosts legal trainings for community members and attorneys on topics relevant to nonprofits and small businesses. Most legal trainings are approved for CLE credits for attorneys. Communities Rise creates and publishes written materials and webinars designed to help nonprofits and small businesses understand the law and legal concepts that are relevant to their work.

    Expenses $296,748

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • Andrew Kashyap

    Co-Executive Director, Legal Services

    Total calculated
    $121,001
    From this org
    $85,089
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $35,912
    Hours/week
    40

  • Annie Hout

    Co-Executive Director, Finance and Operations

    Total calculated
    $113,817
    From this org
    $106,045
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,772
    Hours/week
    40

  • Brianna Jones

    Co-Executive Director, Capacity Building to Dec '24

    Total calculated
    $103,157
    From this org
    $99,574
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,583
    Hours/week
    40

  • Diana Singleton

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Catherine West

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • David Lawson

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Marnina Cherkin

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Caroline Shelton

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Claire White

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Renato Foz

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Stan Brown

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Tachini Pete

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
    $1,733,570
    Expenses
    $1,374,856
    Contributions
    $1,679,711
    Grants paid
    $56,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,385,590
    Expenses
    $1,622,038
    Contributions
    $1,308,547
    Grants paid
    $217,281
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,665,197
    Expenses
    $1,892,685
    Contributions
    $1,508,637
    Grants paid
    $367,483

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
    $2,557,307
    Expenses
    $1,750,032
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,245,172

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,912,765
    Expenses
    $1,196,001
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,353,319

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $471,958
    Expenses
    $379,444
    Assets (EOY)
    $287,658

  • 2012 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $38,581
    Expenses
    $38,260
    Assets (EOY)
    $46,787

  • 2011 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $45,279
    Expenses
    $32,069
    Assets (EOY)
    $40,538

  • 2010 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $29,815
    Expenses
    $33,060
    Assets (EOY)
    $27,328

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.

Grants made

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

Where these grants went next →

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.