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ATWORK

ATWORK (Washington) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $737,030 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ($146,670). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$10M
Funders on record
25
Grants received
$737k
Net assets
$5.2M
15/25 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Atwork does

Mission

Our mission is to empower people with disabilities to be involved, contributing, and thriving members of their communities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Social enterprises: Atwork! Operates three small business lines, which include production, landscaping, and food services. The revenue from these enterprises helps contribute to the financial stability of the mission, contributing to our ability to serve more people. In fy 2025, 83.5% of the direct labor on Atwork!'s social enterprises' operations were performed by (7) people with disabilities, including (4) federal contracts. All employees with disabilities earn prevailing wages; have benefits including health insurance and paid time off and earn increases during the year. Ace a wholly owned subsidiary of Atwork! Established in 2018 provides retail landscape maintenance and installation services for commercial and residential customers. This subsidiary has operated profitably since its inception, contributing financial support for our mission. Fy 2025 total revenue from this subsidiary was over $3.2 million.

    $4,075,185 spent$4,868,910 earned by the program
    51% of program spending
  2. Employment services Atwork! Is a nationally recognized leader in employment services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, particularly for those with high support needs. Our unwavering belief that anyone can work has made us one of the top service providers in washington state and our customized job matches ensure that equity and diversity are indeed, changing the face of employment. In fy 2025, Atwork! Served 401 people across king, snohomish, and spokane and kittitas counties and 53 new people. We successfully had 46 new job starts and worked with 207 business partners. Community inclusion: Atwork!'s community inclusion services ensure that people with significant disabilities stay connected to their communities, regardless of employment status. These services are based in the community in which the person lives and are designed to support the goals and interests of the participants to develop skills, relationships, and connections, independently as possible. In fy 2025, Atwork! Served 45 people across king, snohomish, and spokane counties in community inclusion resulting in over 4,900 community inclusion service hours.

    $3,852,281 spent$5,131,756 earned by the program
    49% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,927,466.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($5.2M) Expenses 100 ($5.2M) Net assets 100 ($3.5M)2018 Revenue 114 ($5.9M) Expenses 111 ($5.8M) Net assets 103 ($3.6M)2019 Revenue 120 ($6.2M) Expenses 119 ($6.2M) Net assets 104 ($3.7M)2020 Revenue 129 ($6.7M) Expenses 130 ($6.7M) Net assets 103 ($3.6M)2021 Revenue 149 ($7.7M) Expenses 128 ($6.7M) Net assets 132 ($4.7M)2022 Revenue 150 ($7.8M) Expenses 150 ($7.8M) Net assets 131 ($4.6M)2023 Revenue 172 ($8.9M) Expenses 169 ($8.8M) Net assets 136 ($4.8M)2024 Revenue 184 ($9.5M) Expenses 180 ($9.3M) Net assets 141 ($5.0M)2025 Revenue 197 ($10M) Expenses 193 ($10M) Net assets 147 ($5.2M)
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Revenue (197)Expenses (193)Net assets (147)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $4.2M to $4.9M (+19%).

$3.9M
$4.1M
$4.2M
$4.9M
$5.3M
$5.4M
$5.9M
$6.1M
$6.5M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

2% of ATWORK’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,400 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$8k
’17
$134k
’18
$69k
’19
−$42k
’20
$1.1M
’21
−$5k
’22
$166k
’23
$197k
’24
$226k
’25
3.5
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Chris Jahrman

CEO

Board chair

Susan Paine

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed181917151416171816
Joined·+5+0+0+1+4+5+4+2
No longer listed·42222434
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $117k → $82k.

4 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of ATWORK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

ATWORK has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

53% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ATWORK.

20%
largest funder
42%
top three
~11
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 59% · 2019 100% · 2020 43% · 2021 29% · 2022 27% · 2023 24% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

46% of ATWORK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

ATWORK draws 58% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 9 states in all.

AK
WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
MA
VA
DE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Washington out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $57k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ATWORK holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve3.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Government funding ATWORK receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.9M on record.

Federal$8.9M
grants $0contracts $8.9M
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Top agencies
  • Department of Veterans Affairs$3.9M
  • Department of Commerce$2.6M
  • Department of Homeland Security$2.1M
  • Department of Defense$188k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 19%Fundraising 2%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

81%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Atwork Commercial Enterprises LLC · disregarded

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Questions and answers

Who funds ATWORK?
ATWORK (Washington) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $737,030 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ($146,670). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ATWORK have?
IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $737,030 in grants to ATWORK, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ATWORK?
UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $146,670 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ATWORK find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 25 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing