Public Charity

The Imagine Institute

The Imagine Institute is a Public Charity headquartered in Tukwila, WA. Financial data from the 2025 filing: $16.8M revenue, $10.8M expenses, $16.8M total assets. 2 publicly reported grants to this organization, totaling roughly $211K, appear in IRS filings.

EIN: 812316926 Tukwila, WA Children & Youth Services NTEE: P30 Latest filing: 2025
Total Revenue$16.8M
Total Expenses$10.8M
Total Assets$16.8M
Grant Records2
Funding Total$211K
Filing Years2021–2025

Mission

Our mission is to create community relationships and innovative early learning programs that empower people, caring every day for every generation. Our vision is to support affordable, high-quality care for every child in Washington State by building an accessible and strong professional development system that elevates and improves the lives of child care providers and professionals.

Where $100 goes at The Imagine Institute

How The Imagine Institute divides every $100 it spends, from its own Form 990 filings, averaged across 9 years.

$88 Programs the work itself
$12 Management running the organization
$0 Fundraising none reported

No fundraising costs are reported. That often means fundraising runs through a separate affiliated organization that files its own return.

Inside the $88 for programs

$35
IMAGINE U:Imagine U is a relationship-based mentorship program designed to increase the number of licensed family child care providers who can care for children in Washington State
39% of program spending · Reported in the filing: 20 hours
$29
All other programs
33% of program spending
$15
WASHINGTON STATE EARLY CARE AND EDUCATION SUBSTITUTE POOL:Since its inception, the WA State ECE Substitute Pool has distributed millions of dollars in substitute relief funding to hundreds of…
17% of program spending

Plus 1 more program. Cost per person served and the full program breakdown are on the full profile.

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Source: Form 990 filings with the IRS, latest fiscal year 2025. Shares are from the organization's reported expenses. Data by Imperigo; not affiliated with the IRS.

Officers & Directors

Board Member Annie Lee
Chief Executive Officer Cate Bridenstine
Board Member Dora Herrera
Board Member Fartun Bakari
Board Member/Secretary Gary Burris
Board Member/Treasurer Glenn Scott

Officer compensation and complete director data available with membership.

Top Grant Purposes

Economic Development
$150,632 1 grant
Unspecified
$60,000 1 grant

Financial Trends

Year Revenue Expenses Assets
2025 $16.8M $10.8M $16.8M
2024 $10.0M $8.9M $10.1M
2023 $13.5M $11.1M $9.7M
2022 $10.3M $8.9M $6.6M
2021 $6.9M $6.3M $4.0M

Between 2021 and 2025, reported annual revenue grew from $6.9M to $16.8M (+144%), with total assets most recently reported at $16.8M.

Interactive year-over-year charts and full filing details available with membership.

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