Washington · Nonprofit
ENVIRONMENTAL WORKS
ENVIRONMENTAL WORKS (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $107 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($107). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.0M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $107
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Environmental Works does
Mission
Environmental Works functions as a comunity design and central resource center for the disadvantaged areas of our community and aids them in developing long-range community objectivies regarding planning, design, and the environment; aids in the definition of present problems in these areas of our community and investigation of possible solutions; develops and aids in the development and improvement of low-income housing and facilities for the delivery of community and human services; preserves and protects the natural environment for the benefit of the public and furthers the conservation, preservation, enhancement, and restoration of parks, parks' facilities, recreation areas, and open spaces in communities; and aids, supports, and assists by gifts, contributions or otherwise, other tax-exempt charitable organizations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Community design: ew designs and advocates for equitable, community-led environments. In 2024, ew advanced affordable housing, childcare, and supportive-housing projects throughout the region, including addis village (affordable family housing and childcare), parkview services accessibility projects for people with disabilities, and multiple pre-development and real-estate advisory engagements. Ew also supported nonprofit clients with site selection, test fits, planning studies, and design-build community space activations that strengthen local relationships and spur future projects.
$5,367,479 spent$7,028,408 earned by the program97% of program spendingCommunity education: in 2024, ew continued to share best practices in equitable design, community-led development, and affordable housing. Staff presented at housing washington, the seattle design festival, and multiple higher-ed programs, including the university of washington college of built environments. Ew led workshops on childcare facility design, community-centered housing, and social-equity-driven planning. Through these efforts, ew helped train hundreds of students, practitioners, and community leaders in culturally responsive and just design practices.
$97,204 spent2% of program spendingPro bono design services: ew provided pro bono design and planning support to nonprofit partners across washington state. In 2024, ew supported projects including tiny home villages, accessibility upgrades for low-income senior households, the homeless remembrance project's permitting and site coordination, and community-led visioning efforts in south seattle neighborhoods facing environmental-justice impacts. Ew also provided early feasibility and test-fit studies to bipoc-led organizations pursuing culturally specific housing, childcare, and community-serving projects.
$85,213 spent2% of program spendingEw gives: ew's staff and board supported partner organizations through fundraising, volunteer service, and professional advocacy. In 2024, ew raised and directed funds to organizations advancing housing justice, childcare access, and community well-being, including the housing development consortium, the ethiopian community in seattle, sno-valley senior center, and other nonprofits serving low-income families and elders. Through ew gives, staff also offered direct community support, including event participation, technical advice, and connections to resources.
$4,938 spentof which $4,938 as grants0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,554,834.
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 2019 to 2020, from $2.1M to $2.7M (+30%).
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: 2021 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of ENVIRONMENTAL WORKS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Jess Zimbabwe
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $29 → $17.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 ENVIRONMENTAL WORKS’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.
Where its funders are
100% of ENVIRONMENTAL WORKS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $107 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
ENVIRONMENTAL WORKS has grown faster than half of the 3,973 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,973 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding ENVIRONMENTAL WORKS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $32k on record — $25k federal, $7k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$25k
- FACILITIES MAINTENANCE$7k
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.
Organizations like ENVIRONMENTAL WORKS
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
39%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Firestation Seven Associates · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ENVIRONMENTAL WORKS: 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 ENVIRONMENTAL WORKS?
- ENVIRONMENTAL WORKS (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $107 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($107). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ENVIRONMENTAL WORKS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $107 in grants to ENVIRONMENTAL WORKS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ENVIRONMENTAL WORKS?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $107 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ENVIRONMENTAL WORKS 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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