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ETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY IN SEATTLE

EIN 91-1288919 SEATTLE, WA

Revenue 2024
$2,485,052
Expenses 2024
$1,369,463

Program services were 65.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A33Z
Classification
1000
Street
8323 RAINIER AVE S SUITE A

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

Ethiopian Community in Seattle's ECS mission is to facilitate a seamless integration of all persons of Ethiopian origin into the American society. Additionally,Additionally, ECS aims to contribute to the social, cultural and civic life of the Puget Sound area as well as to assist Ethiopians and Ethiopian Americans in preserving and sharing their ancient history and rich cultural heritage.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Ethiopian Community in Seattle's ECS mission is to facilitate a seamless integration of all persons of Ethiopian origin into the American society. Additionally, Additionally, ECS aims to contribute to the social, cultural and civic life of the Puget Sound area as well as to assist Ethiopians and Ethiopian-Americans in preserving and sharing their ancient history and rich cultural heritage.

  • ECS received COVID 19 grant from various sources and assist the community. ECS was received a total of $259,315 in 2024 and expensed $145,444. The remain $113,871 will be expensed in 2025.

    Expenses $145,444 · Revenue $259,315

  • Expenses $588,371 · Revenue $497,663

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.

  • Lydia Assefa-Dawson

    Board President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Alebachew Aderagew

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Masresha Zenebe

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Azeb Aberra

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Beza Wedajo

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Robel Alemu

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Daniel Kebede

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Bisrat Gebre

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Fekadu Shibeshi

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Woinitu Bekele

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Sophia Benalfew

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $115,873
    From this org
    $115,873
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $2,485,052
    Expenses
    $1,369,463
    Contributions
    $2,382,182
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,151,256
    Expenses
    $979,946
    Contributions
    $2,059,745
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,125,471
    Expenses
    $979,946
    Contributions
    $2,059,745
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $6,425,610
    Expenses
    $757,546
    Contributions
    $6,242,363
    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

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,965,539
    Expenses
    $695,821
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,035,932

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,348,353
    Expenses
    $1,347,364
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,893,211

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,405,301
    Expenses
    $411,848
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,818,371

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

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.

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 partnerships on its 2024 return

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