Washington · Nonprofit
Seattle Works
Seattle Works (Washington) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,702,670 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($589,726). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $-2711
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $0
What Seattle Works does
Mission
PRIMARY EXEMPT PURPOSE: We invest in collective liberation through transformative community building and through anti-oppression education, actionable trainings, and resource mobilization.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
BIPOC Link-up and White Caucus are community-building spaces. BIPOC Link-up is a space where people who identify at Black Indigenous or People of Color can connect build community share resources discuss racial equity promote healing and make an impact. White Caucus is a space for people who identify as white to learn build community and take action to dismantle racism. Both spaces build community among participants and encourage leadership and making an impact outside of the meeting. Seattle Works hosted 11 BIPOC Link-ups 9 White Caucuses and trained 16 white nonprofit leaders in anti-racist leadership through the White Caucus Cohort.
$85,677 spent$25,450 earned by the program21% of program spendingAgents of Change is a cohort-based program where participants learn how to incorporate an anti-racist lens to the work they do in the nonprofit sector as volunteers board members and nonprofit professionals. Participants learn about topics ranging from implicit bias the nonprofit industrial complex and building anti-racist organizational cultures. Participants build community with each other in the cohorts and through alumni events They develop leadership skills to become agents of change in the nonprofit sector. Seattle Works held two cohorts in 2023.
$138,887 spent$14,050 earned by the program34% of program spendingEvolve Board Training is a board training to reimagine board service through an anti-racist lens learn new skills and build a sense of community responsibility. Participants develop skills to evaluate current board culture and practices and shift those practices to be anti-oppressive to find board positions that are a good fit and understand how the historical context of nonprofit boards informs current practices and culture.
$44,137 spent$2,100 earned by the program11% of program spending| Description:, Expense Amount:, Grants Amount:, Revenue Amount:| General program administration management evaluation, $40739, $0, $0| Program marketing and communications, $94863, $0, $0|
$135,602 spent34% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $404,303.
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.
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 $811k to $355k (−56%).
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 0% · 2021 23% · 2022 12% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $9k → $417k.
4 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 Seattle Works’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
Seattle Works leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
45% 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 Seattle Works.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 36% · 2019 73% · 2020 42% · 2021 26% · 2022 47% · 2023 50% — 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 Seattle Works's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
97% of Seattle Works's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $751k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Organizations like Seattle Works
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Seattle Works: 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 Seattle Works?
- Seattle Works (Washington) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,702,670 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($589,726). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Seattle Works have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,702,670 in grants to Seattle Works, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Seattle Works?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $589,726 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Seattle Works 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 14 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