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HOPEWORKS SOCIAL ENTERPRISES

HOPEWORKS SOCIAL ENTERPRISES (Washington) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,417,908 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($3,000,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2023
$4.6M
Funders on record
31
Grants received
$5.4M
Net assets
$14M
18/31 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 16%
01What it does

What Hopeworks Social Enterprises does

Mission

We create pathways to self-sufficiency through social enterprises that provide hope, empowerment, education and job training.

As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Create an earned income model in snohomish county to assist homeless and low-income families to equip themselves for careers with progressive wage opportunities that will ultimately lead to self-sufficency.

    $2,269,396 spentof which $61,159 as grants$54,965 earned by the program
    39% of program spending
  2. Created and operate "tomorrow's hope", to provide parents access to affordable childcare and child development services. In 2016, tomorrow's hope was awarded an increased rating from the state department of early learning's early achievers voluntary quality rating and improvement system. This program serves as a model for helping children to achieve on-target development and enter kindergarten academically and socially ready.

    $1,789,867 spent$1,401,277 earned by the program
    31% of program spending
  3. Create and operate "groundworks", a social enterprise in snohomish county to assist homeless and low-income families to equip themselves for careers in landscaping with progressive wage opportunities that will ultimately lead to self-sufficency.

    $790,616 spent$804,727 earned by the program
    13% of program spending
  4. Created and operate "kindred kitchen", a social enterprise in snohomish county to assist homeless and low-income families for careers in food service with progressive wage opportunities that will ultimately lead to self-sufficiency.

    $562,927 spent$286,701 earned by the program
    10% of program spending
  5. Created and operate "renew home and decor", a social enterprise in snohomish county to assist homeless and low-income families for careers in retail sales with progressive wage opportunities that will ultimately lead to self-sufficiency.

    $449,204 spent$289,936 earned by the program
    8% of program spending

The 5 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,862,010.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($3.7M) Expenses 100 ($3.3M) Net assets 100 ($15M)2022 Revenue 110 ($4.1M) Expenses 109 ($3.6M) Net assets 103 ($15M)2023 Revenue 125 ($4.6M) Expenses 176 ($5.9M) Net assets 96 ($14M)
202120222023
Revenue (125)Expenses (176)Net assets (96)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $20M to $29M (+42%).

$19M
$20M
$29M
202120222023
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 26% · 2022 1% · 2023 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

24% of HOPEWORKS SOCIAL ENTERPRISES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (16% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,616 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$358k
’21
$417k
’22
−$1.3M
’23
2.3
months of
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

Charles Fredrick Safstrom

CEO

As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.

202120222023
Listed7512
Joined·+0+7
No longer listed·20
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 9 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $1.9M → $239k.

8 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 HOPEWORKS SOCIAL ENTERPRISES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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

HOPEWORKS SOCIAL ENTERPRISES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

28% 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 HOPEWORKS SOCIAL ENTERPRISES.

55%
largest funder
71%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 45% · 2019 25% · 2020 37% · 2021 85% · 2022 40% · 2023 84% — 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

25% of HOPEWORKS SOCIAL ENTERPRISES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

74% of HOPEWORKS SOCIAL ENTERPRISES's grant income comes from Washington funders.

WA
MT
IL
NY
OR
CA
MD
DE
KS
NC
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’22
’23
Washington out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $194k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

HOPEWORKS SOCIAL ENTERPRISES has grown faster than half of the 1,513 employment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−28% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,513 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2023

Government funding HOPEWORKS SOCIAL ENTERPRISES receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $80k on record.

Federal$80k
grants $80kcontracts $0
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21
22
Top agencies
  • Corporation for National and Community Service$80k

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
90%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

91%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WA

Part of a family of 10 related entities

  • Housing Hope · exempt
  • Building Credits · exempt
  • Housing Hope Properties · exempt
  • Hopeworks Station Enterprises · exempt
  • Twin Lakes Landing LLC · partnership

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Questions and answers

Who funds HOPEWORKS SOCIAL ENTERPRISES?
HOPEWORKS SOCIAL ENTERPRISES (Washington) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,417,908 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($3,000,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HOPEWORKS SOCIAL ENTERPRISES have?
IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $5,417,908 in grants to HOPEWORKS SOCIAL ENTERPRISES, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HOPEWORKS SOCIAL ENTERPRISES?
GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HOPEWORKS SOCIAL ENTERPRISES 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 FY2023 (financials across 2021–2023), and the filings of 31 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