Minnesota · Nonprofit
HIRED
HIRED (Minnesota) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,718,362 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($2,500,000). 31 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 FY2025
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 45
- Grants received
- $7.7M
- Net assets
- $5.3M
What Hired does
Mission
Hired's mission is to nurture purpose and advance economic opportunity for all through individualized employment and career services. As a workforce development agency, Hired provides direct employment counseling, career training, and wraparound services to support individuals facing barriers to employment to build their skills and secure and retain careers that provide family-sustaining wages.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Family stability: Hired works with families who are receiving public support through the minnesota family investment program (mfip) in hennepin and ramsey counties to increase their stability, prepare for and enter the workforce, and gain financial self-sufficiency. Our mfip teams support families to overcome barriers and empower them to gain the skills, education/training/credentials they need to secure jobs and build a pathway to financial independence and prosperity. We also offer specific programs to support families during the critical transition from public assistance to self-sufficiency, including services around the "benefits cliff and provide aftercare support to increase employment retention. We also provide family home visiting to parents with children prenatal-5.
$4,051,518 spentof which $223,175 as grants$4,470,752 earned by the program37% of program spendingAdult services: Hired offers one-to-one coaching and wraparound supports designed to help individuals who have been laid off at no fault of their own (also known as "dislocated workers"), and unemployed and underemployed adults. Through individualized coaching/employment counseling, we support them as they build new skills, obtain educational training and credentials, and re-enter the workforce. We also support them to meet their families' basic needs as they upskill and engage in their job searches. We also operate a program (snap e&t) to support people with nutritional assistance during education/training.
$3,003,302 spentof which $48,296 as grants$3,460,595 earned by the program28% of program spendingYouth: our youth team provides stabilization support, job coaching, work experiences/internships, career exploration, and more. They support youth and young adults to address barriers to academic and economic success, housing stability, and to meet their basic and educational/work readiness needs. The majority of young people we work with disconnected from school, many are precariously housed, and roughly a third are transitioning from the juvenile justice and/or foster care systems or have had prior system involvement.
$2,025,048 spentof which $59,082 as grants$2,255,959 earned by the program19% of program spendingCareer pathways job training: we prepare low-income jobseekers for positions in high-growth and high-need industries and sectors that offer family-sustaining wages, benefits, and opportunities for career advancement. Our team partners closely with employer partners to inform our training, hire our graduates, and engage in employer panels, mock interviews, and more. We partner with educational institutions and other training providers to provide post-secondary and/or employer-recognized credentials connected to the various pathways, which currently include advanced manufacturing (semiconductor and medical technology), home energy auditing, human services, office administration, and medical call center. We also provide financial wellness training and support.
$1,750,977 spentof which $91,397 as grants$1,989,777 earned by the program16% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,830,845.
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 2023 to 2024, from $3.6M to $6.3M (+76%).
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 94% · 2018 91% · 2019 92% · 2020 89% · 2021 90% · 2022 92% · 2023 92% · 2024 75% · 2025 87%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of HIRED’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Julie Brekke
President and CEO
Board chair
Bernice Lamkin
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $260k → $750k.
11 of 45 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 HIRED’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 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
HIRED has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% 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
64% 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 HIRED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 49% · 2019 58% · 2020 50% · 2021 28% · 2022 20% · 2023 27% — 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 HIRED's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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 HIRED'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 $3.6M that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
HIRED runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 290 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 290 employment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding HIRED receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $14 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $14
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 HIRED
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 HIRED: 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 HIRED?
- HIRED (Minnesota) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,718,362 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($2,500,000). 31 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 HIRED have?
- IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $7,718,362 in grants to HIRED, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HIRED?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $2,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HIRED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 45 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