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Accounting, Tax & Advisory for Youth Programs

From grant tracking to Form 990, we handle the numbers so your team can focus on the kids you serve.

Serving Seattle-area youth organizations since 1971 · Licensed WA CPAs

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Accounting Built Around How Youth Organizations Actually Operate

Greenwood Ohlund provides youth nonprofit accounting for Seattle-area mentoring programs, sports leagues, after-school programs, and camps. Program costs grow and shrink with seasonal enrollment, and grantors have to see outcomes tied back to the dollars they gave you, not just a balance sheet. Any general accountant can track the money. We can report it in the way your funders want to see it. We also handle the audits your board and funders expect, including Single Audits for federally funded programs, alongside Form 990 filings and grant tracking that keeps every restricted dollar accounted for on its own terms.

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The Challenges Youth Programs Face

We separate each grant’s restricted funds in your books and match your reporting to what each funder requires, so nothing gets commingled or misreported.

We allocate your expenses across the program, management-and-general, and fundraising categories that your Form 990 requires, so your functional-expense reporting holds up to scrutiny.

We build your budget and cash flow projections around your actual enrollment cycle and seasonal programming instead of a flat monthly average.

Only if your organization spends $1,000,000 or more in federal awards during your fiscal year. We help you track toward that threshold and prepare for the audit itself if you cross it.

WHAT WE DO

How We Support Youth Programs

Tax Services

Form 990 filings and grant-reporting questions, handled by people who know what funders expect to see.

Audit & Assurance

Financial statement audits and Single Audits your board and funders trust, backed by decades of nonprofit audit experience.

Accounting & CFO Services

Grant tracking, budgeting built around your enrollment cycle, and reporting that keeps your board and your funders on the same page.

What Makes Youth Programs Accounting Different

Cost-reimbursement contracts, overhead ratios, and volunteer time that only sometimes counts as in-kind. This is the territory that we in the youth-serving niche navigate… and navigate, and navigate.

But with a CPA who knows this territory, you can be sure that your restricted grants are tracked by funder, not just by fund, and your reimbursable costs get reported correctly. We handle your registration with Washington’s Charities Program the same way, and we report to each funder in the format they actually require, not a one-size template that only works for one of them.

We serve organizations like yours

Organizations Like Yours

We work with a wide range of youth-serving nonprofits, including:

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Mentoring organizations

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Youth sports leagues

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After-school and enrichment programs

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Summer camps

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Youth-development and workforce-readiness nonprofits

Why Youth Programs Choose Greenwood Ohlund

Our accounting and CFO services provide structured financial oversight, accurate reporting, and practical insight for organizations that require clarity and consistency. We deliver full accounting services and advisory support designed to strengthen financial management without unnecessary complexity.

Decades in nonprofit accounting

We’ve been doing this since 1971.

Tax, audit, accounting, and CFO expertise, one firm

Most firms our size don’t offer all four under one roof. You get a Form 990 team, an audit team, and a CFO-level advisory team who already talk to each other, instead of coordinating three separate vendors yourself.

Seattle-rooted, with clients across Washington and beyond

We’re based in Seattle and built around the Pacific Northwest, with clients in other states when the relationship calls for it.

A relationship that runs all year, not just at filing time

We’re recognized as a Peak Firm and a PSBJ Washington’s Best Workplaces honoree, and that same culture shows up in how we work with clients: regular conversations and actual availability, not a firm you hear from once a year.

EXPERIENCE THE GO DIFFERENCE

Your Youth Programs Team

Amanda O Rourke

TAX SERVICES

Amanda O’Rourke, CPA

Managing Partner

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Matt Smith

AUDIT & ASSURANCE

Matt Smith, CPA

Partner

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Jason Mallon

CFO & ACCOUNTING SERVICES

Jason Mallon, CPA

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Claire Chow

TAX SERVICES

Claire Chow, CPA

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Andrew Van Ness

AUDIT & ASSURANCE

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Martha Hadaway, EA

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CFO & ACCOUTNING SERVICES

Brian Vinciguerra

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FAQ

Youth Programs Accounting FAQs

It depends on size. Organizations with $50,000 or less in annual gross receipts file Form 990-N; those under $200,000 in receipts and $500,000 in assets file Form 990-EZ; everyone above that files the full Form 990, often with the Schedule A public support test attached. We’ll handle whichever applies to you.

Each grant gets tracked separately as either with or without donor restrictions, and reported the way its specific funder requires. We track your restricted grants by funder, not just by fund, so nothing gets misreported or commingled.

Only if you spend $1,000,000 or more in federal awards during your fiscal year. That threshold, set by the Uniform Guidance, is what triggers a Single Audit rather than a standard financial statement audit. We handle both.

It depends on the donation. A donated specialist’s time, like a counselor’s or an attorney’s, counts as an in-kind contribution recorded at fair value. A parent volunteering to coach generally doesn’t. We know that distinction and apply it correctly on your books.

Being local helps with things like Washington’s charitable registration and state-specific rules, but the bigger factor is nonprofit experience. As a Seattle-based nonprofit accountant since 1971, we combine local knowledge with the accounting depth youth programs need.

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Let's Talk About Your Youth Organization

If you’re tracking grants from multiple funders, documenting reimbursable costs, or if you’re just ready for an accountant who really knows this territory, we can take it from here. Reach out and we’ll start by pinpointing what you actually need.

Greenwood Ohlund, PS
4241 21st Ave W, Suite 400, Seattle, WA 98199
(206) 782-1767