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WHATCOM CENTER FOR EARLY LEARNING

EIN 91-1526226 BELLINGHAM, WA

Revenue 2024
$4,722,488
Expenses 2024
$5,586,219

Program services were 83.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Z99Z
Classification
1000
Street
2001 H ST

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).

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.

  • Ken Bronstein

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Kendra Norton

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Julie Mauermann

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Elaine Peterson OD

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Darcie Donegan

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Dani Harris

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Christine Biernacki

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Carmela Carrasco MD

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Cally Cass

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Amar Parekh

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Andy Wheeler

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Jessica Staten

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Gabriela Montenegro

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Stevona Burks

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Sierra James

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $163,737
    From this org
    $148,152
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,585
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $146,604
    Bonus
    $1,548
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,527
    Nontaxable benefits
    $11,058
    Filer's total
    $163,737

  • Stephanie Schmitt

    Finance & Administration Director

    Total calculated
    $114,705
    From this org
    $105,973
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,732
    Hours/week
    40

  • Jennifer Kurtz

    Speech Language Pathologist

    Total calculated
    $123,138
    From this org
    $111,925
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,213
    Hours/week
    40

  • Kristin Andrea Clements

    Speech Language Pathologist

    Total calculated
    $126,302
    From this org
    $114,556
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,746
    Hours/week
    40

  • Sarah Robinson Dudley

    Physical Therapist

    Total calculated
    $117,124
    From this org
    $106,508
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,616
    Hours/week
    40

  • Amelia Bacon

    Programs Director

    Total calculated
    $130,954
    From this org
    $103,177
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $27,777
    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 — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $4,722,488
    Expenses
    $5,586,219
    Contributions
    $657,573
    Grants paid
    $15,544
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $6,798,088
    Expenses
    $4,655,716
    Contributions
    $3,073,445
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,748,729
    Expenses
    $3,476,216
    Contributions
    $815,073
    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.

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 10 September 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.