Washington · Nonprofit
CARES OF WASHINGTON
CARES OF WASHINGTON (Washington) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,045,370 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ($560,100). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Cares of Washington does
Mission
Support people with disabilities and low incomes to realize their purpose, potential and strength.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Partner with local governments to provide vocational and educational training for people with disabilities and other barriers to employment. The fee for service employment services assists adults who have disabilities and who live in king, pierce, kitsap, and snohomish counties prepare for, find, and keep employment in their community. The basic food, education and training program partners with washington state dshs and local community colleges to assist students in developing the resources and financial literacy needed to complete certificate and other programs that will enhance their long-term self-sufficiency.
$2,534,388 spent$20,352 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,534,388.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.5M to $2.0M (+35%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 65% · 2019 75% · 2020 79% · 2021 86% · 2022 87% · 2023 82% · 2024 68% · 2025 66%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of CARES OF WASHINGTON’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Lars Nowack
Exec dir./secretary
Board chair
Nitant Singh
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $128k → $159k.
4 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 CARES OF WASHINGTON’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 22 of 23 funders by total. 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
CARES OF WASHINGTON leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% 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 CARES OF WASHINGTON.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 100% · 2019 87% · 2020 62% · 2021 75% · 2022 77% · 2023 31% — 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
33% of CARES OF WASHINGTON's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 35% give in more than one year at all.
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
83% of CARES OF WASHINGTON's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $75k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
CARES OF WASHINGTON's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 11 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,012 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CARES OF WASHINGTON
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CARES OF WASHINGTON: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CARES OF WASHINGTON?
- CARES OF WASHINGTON (Washington) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,045,370 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ($560,100). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CARES OF WASHINGTON have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,045,370 in grants to CARES OF WASHINGTON, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CARES OF WASHINGTON?
- UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $560,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CARES OF WASHINGTON 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 23 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