Washington · Nonprofit
FARESTART
FARESTART (Washington) receives grants from 289 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,214,449 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,525,694). 177 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 289
- Grants received
- $42M
- Net assets
- $17M
What Farestart does
Mission
Farestart transforms lives, disrupts poverty and nourishes communities through food, life skills and job training.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Our job training program includes classroom training alongside food-based social enterprises that serve as on-the-job classrooms where students learn skills that prepare them for jobs in and beyond the culinary industry. Students learn and hone these skills while being in a supportive environment that includes wraparound support services such as housing, mental health support, laptops, transportation and more. In 2025, we served 736 individuals. 366 students enrolled across our job training programs and 232 students graduated. There were 91 job placements, and 32 high school students earned high school credit.
$6,517,659 spentof which $650,708 as grants$1,443,051 earned by the program58% of program spendingFarestart supports food security across the seattle area while providing job training opportunities for our students. We contract with nonprofit organizations, shelters, schools and daycare centers to provide nutritious, prepared meals to mostly food insecure communities. In 2025, we provided 531,713 prepared meals to children, individuals and families.
$4,262,299 spentof which $283,033 as grants$4,216,720 earned by the program38% of program spendingFarestart provides consulting, training, and resources to nonprofit organizations and opportunity employers across the united states. In 2025, 60 organizations were supported.
$526,766 spent$252,349 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,306,724.
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 2017 to 2018, from $47M to $30M (−36%).
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: 2017 9% · 2018 8% · 2019 9% · 2020 3% · 2021 14% · 2022 35% · 2023 28% · 2024 10% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
73% of FARESTART’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% 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
Patrick D'Amelio
CEO
Board chair
Janice Javier
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 46 funders to 105 funders, grant income rose $1.6M → $5.3M.
35 of 289 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 FARESTART’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 289 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
FARESTART has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
60% 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 FARESTART.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 19% · 2019 12% · 2020 19% · 2021 34% · 2022 17% · 2023 19% — 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
41% of FARESTART's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
55% of FARESTART's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19M arriving through sponsors registered in 20 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
FARESTART holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 290 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 290 employment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like FARESTART
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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
- Farestart Properties LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FARESTART: 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 FARESTART?
- FARESTART (Washington) receives grants from 289 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,214,449 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,525,694). 177 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FARESTART have?
- IRS filings report 289 organizations giving $42,214,449 in grants to FARESTART, 177 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FARESTART?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,525,694 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FARESTART 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 289 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing