Washington · Nonprofit
HOPELINK
HOPELINK (Washington) receives grants from 199 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,963,167 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($6,308,150). 135 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $109M
- Funders on record
- 199
- Grants received
- $33M
- Net assets
- $50M
What Hopelink does
Mission
Hopelink equips people to exit poverty through comprehensive services, impactful partnerships, and advocacy for equitable opportunities for all.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Hopelink operates a special needs transportation brokerage for king and snohomish counties, provides direct transportation services under contract to king county metro, and provides mobility management services for king county. For the year ending june 30, 2025, a total of 759,579 trips were provided in king and snohomish counties 918,071 rides were given for dart, alternative services and water taxi shuttle routes and 276 human service providers were trained on travel options for their clients, providing travel options assistance directly to 10,201 individuals in king county.
$70,229,614 spentof which $707,753 as grants$73,799,541 earned by the program70% of program spendingHopelink provides food, emergency financial assistance to assist low income families, distributes federal dollars to those who need help with energy bills, and teaches energy conservation. For the year ending june 30, 2025, Hopelink food banks distributed more than 6,187,193 pounds of food to 20,476 individuals for a total of 193,494 food bank visits. Hopelink provided more than $1,063,967 in direct financial assistance from grant and fundraising dollars. The liheap and puget sound energy (pse) programs provided energy assistance to families in the amount of $10,417,850 of which $1,401,962 represented direct assistance, with the remainder provided by third parties upon the referral by Hopelink. Households served were 2,582 with liheap funds and 10,712 with pse funds.
$23,972,342 spentof which $17,086,907 as grants$1,630,116 earned by the program24% of program spendingHopelink equipped to exit poverty programs provide families with emergency shelter, transitional housing, and permanent housing. For the year ending june 30, 2025, emergency shelter and transitional housing programs provided 105,193 bed nights and permanent housing provided 123,215 bed nights. Case managers assist families in accessing services they need to reach their goals such as parenting, budgeting classes, tenant education as well as adult education and employment classes. The family development program participants had 100% of exited households maintain or establish stable housing. Adult education provides english language acquisition, basic literacy, and money management. Hopelink's adult education and literacy programs served 541 adults. The ged prep course served 57 students. Hopelink's english language acquisition (ela) program served 271 students with 71% making a reportable gain.
$6,276,919 spentof which $104,971 as grants$807,042 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $100,478,875.
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 2024 to 2025, from $64M to $77M (+19%).
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 18% · 2018 7% · 2019 7% · 2020 9% · 2021 16% · 2022 12% · 2023 14% · 2024 12% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
30% of HOPELINK’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (17% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 52 funders to 85 funders, grant income rose $1.5M → $5.1M.
24 of 199 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 HOPELINK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 199 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
HOPELINK has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% 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
68% 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 HOPELINK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 22% · 2019 23% · 2020 21% · 2021 42% · 2022 24% · 2023 31% — growing more concentrated.
“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
52% of HOPELINK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
58% of HOPELINK'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 $14M that is directly attributable, 86% of it 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 16 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
HOPELINK's revenue grew 74% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 180 human services nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Organizations like HOPELINK
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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOPELINK: 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 HOPELINK?
- HOPELINK (Washington) receives grants from 199 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,963,167 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($6,308,150). 135 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HOPELINK have?
- IRS filings report 199 organizations giving $32,963,167 in grants to HOPELINK, 135 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOPELINK?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,308,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOPELINK 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 199 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