Washington · Nonprofit
THE ARTISANS' ARK
THE ARTISANS' ARK (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,732 to it, the largest being Innovia Foundation ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $24k
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What The Artisans' Ark does
Mission
To provide services necessary for individual job development, employment support, and employment opportunities in the community for persons with disabilities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The artisans provides job developing and coaching to persons with disabilities for both group and individual supported employment along with providing community inclusion and school to work support. Persons qualifying for the program are trained at various jobs within the community. The artisans served 10 group, 84 individual, 98 community inclusion, 1 bridge, and 3 school to work supported clients providing over 1,347 group, 8,046 individual, 10,925 community inclusion, 19 bridge, and 123 school to work hours during the year. The artisans also work with businesses throughout the community to provide work contracts that allow for skill building and assessment. The artisans provided work support to 113 dvr clients during the year under 184 contracts.
$2,023,833 spent$172,968 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,023,833.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.6M to $2.2M (+42%).
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 78% · 2018 85% · 2019 88% · 2020 90% · 2021 86% · 2022 92% · 2023 93% · 2024 93% · 2025 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of THE ARTISANS' ARK’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (16% 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
Polly Maxwell
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $500 → $851.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 THE ARTISANS' ARK’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
THE ARTISANS' ARK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
77% 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 THE ARTISANS' ARK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 94% · 2019 100% · 2020 80% · 2021 93% · 2022 75% · 2023 88% — 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.
Where its funders are
58% of THE ARTISANS' ARK's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
THE ARTISANS' ARK runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,012 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,012 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE ARTISANS' ARK
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
88% 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 THE ARTISANS' ARK: 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 THE ARTISANS' ARK?
- THE ARTISANS' ARK (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,732 to it, the largest being Innovia Foundation ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE ARTISANS' ARK have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $23,732 in grants to THE ARTISANS' ARK, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ARTISANS' ARK?
- Innovia Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ARTISANS' ARK 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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