Washington · Nonprofit
RICHARD HUGO HOUSE
RICHARD HUGO HOUSE (Washington) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,648,430 to it, the largest being RAYNIER INSTITUTE & FOUNDATION ($657,000). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $5.9M
What Richard Hugo House does
Mission
Hugo house is a nonprofit literary arts organization that aims to open the literary world to everyone who loves books or has the drive to write. It is our mission to give people a place to read words, hear words, and make their own words better. We provide classes, events, and fellowships for emerging and established writers.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Classes: our teaching staff include prominent visiting writers, as well as working novelists, poets, essayists, and memoirists. Classes explore the craft of writing, from the basics (poetry I and fiction I) to the master class (book lab). In 2023, hugo house continued serving students of all ages and provided countless hours of instructions to our community of writers.
$928,059 spent$867,425 earned by the program88% of program spendingEvents: we bring local authors, poets laureate, community favorites, and new talents into hugo house for discussions and readings. Some discuss their influences or reveal works in progress. Others collaborate with musicians or other artists. We also host community-based events like open mics and silent readings. Many of the events we present are free to the public, with donations optional.
$32,061 spent$11,192 earned by the program3% of program spendingResources for writers: we provide writers free drop-in circles for feedback and collaboration, writer welcome kits, manuscript consultations and other support.
$91,104 spent$59,850 earned by the program9% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,051,224.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $7.1M to $6.2M (−13%).
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: 2020 3% · 2021 3% · 2022 5% · 2023 2% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
43% of RICHARD HUGO HOUSE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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
Jose Montero
Executive director, current
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 15 funders, grant income fell $197k → $97k.
13 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 RICHARD HUGO HOUSE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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
RICHARD HUGO HOUSE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
53% 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 RICHARD HUGO HOUSE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 81% · 2019 43% · 2020 27% · 2021 30% · 2022 23% · 2023 26% — 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 RICHARD HUGO HOUSE'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
RICHARD HUGO HOUSE draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M 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
RICHARD HUGO HOUSE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding RICHARD HUGO HOUSE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $205k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$205k
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 RICHARD HUGO HOUSE
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
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
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 RICHARD HUGO HOUSE: 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 RICHARD HUGO HOUSE?
- RICHARD HUGO HOUSE (Washington) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,648,430 to it, the largest being RAYNIER INSTITUTE & FOUNDATION ($657,000). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RICHARD HUGO HOUSE have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $2,648,430 in grants to RICHARD HUGO HOUSE, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RICHARD HUGO HOUSE?
- RAYNIER INSTITUTE & FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $657,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RICHARD HUGO HOUSE 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 36 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