Washington · Nonprofit
HERO HOUSE NW
HERO HOUSE NW (Washington) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $563,237 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($205,925). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $563k
- Net assets
- $419k
What Hero House Nw does
Mission
None
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Clubhouse philosophy is based on the work-ordered day, functioning as a business where members are encouraged to develop and strengthen their talents and abilities while accomplishing the clubhouse work. No clubhouse could function without the hospitality unit (food service unit). In the morning the main focus is on preparing nutritious meals for everyone in the clubhouse. At lunchtime there are opportunities for members to get involved in serving the food and in cleaning up. The hospitality unit also includes operation/mamangement of the snack bar, bank, employment and social program. The following tasks are part of this unit: cooking/baking, menu planning, grocery shopping, preparing meals, taking orders for lunch and waiting on tables, cleaning/dishwashing, organizing/restocking the snackbar, keeping track of inventory, depositing revenue, operating the cash register, and primary event coordination for special events. The hospitality unit also operated the snack bar and the member bank. The food service unit is in charge of the "dine with a hero" program. In this program, we invite key community leaders, supporters, and stakeholders to our clubhouse for a tour, a meal, and…
$2,123,330 spent$56,239 earned by the program100% of program spendingEmployment & educational program: the hero house career development center is committed to supporting our members' educational and employment goals, from learning to read to finding employment. With today's jobs requiring specialized training and skills, the connection between having a solid education and career development has become increasingly crucial. Hero house has a good track record of initiating and developing transitional employment (te). We have worked with local companies to place members on transitional employment jobs at their place of business since 2005. Through the te program, managed by members and staff together, members are placed in paid, entry-level positions in two senses: they let members ease into the world of work with a direct connection to the job, as well as on the job training and job site visits from hero house placement managers. Typically, each placement lasts between six and nine months. The member may then move on to other placements until they are ready for a less supported job. Supported employment (se) combines aspects of both transitional employment and independent employment. It is designed to ease meber's integration into long-term jobs.…
Social & recreational opportunities are available after the work-orderd day which lessen the isolation of mental illness and aid in the person's recovery. Various outings have inlcluded mariners games, bowling, picnics, cinema theatre, museums, arts & crafts, game nights, dances and campouts to name just a few. All are offered free of charge or at reduced pricing. Participants in the social & recreational programs totaled 807 visits.
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,123,330.
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 $3.8M to $4.2M (+11%).
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 64% · 2018 74% · 2019 79% · 2020 79% · 2021 85% · 2022 88% · 2023 91% · 2024 93%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of HERO HOUSE NW’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Kailey Fiedler-Gohlke
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income fell $76k → $31k.
6 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 HERO HOUSE NW’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
HERO HOUSE NW leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
74% 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 HERO HOUSE NW.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 43% · 2019 55% · 2020 37% · 2021 66% · 2022 57% · 2023 32% — 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
20% of HERO HOUSE NW's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
53% of HERO HOUSE NW'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. Of the $262k that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from funders outside Washington, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $301k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
HERO HOUSE NW runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like HERO HOUSE NW
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HERO HOUSE NW: 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 HERO HOUSE NW?
- HERO HOUSE NW (Washington) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $563,237 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($205,925). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HERO HOUSE NW have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $563,237 in grants to HERO HOUSE NW, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HERO HOUSE NW?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $205,925 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HERO HOUSE NW 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 15 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