Washington · Nonprofit
WHAT'S NEXT WASHINGTON
WHAT'S NEXT WASHINGTON (Washington) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $295,388 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($80,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2022
- $157k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $295k
- Net assets
- $60k
What What's Next Washington does
Mission
To improve the ability of people with conviction histories to reintegrate into society and achieve longterm economic stability.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Programs
Partnering for the inclusive workforce project is designed to help employers tap into a labor pool ready to work-people with conviction histories. Developed by those directly impacted, the piwp helps employers recruit , hire, and retain fit ( formerly incarcerated talent) to meet their hiring goals. Access high-quality talent overcome bias and fear through wnw trainings. Improve recruiting, hiring and retention through use of wnw's assessment tools, and develope connections with wrap-around service providers.
$123,087 spent100% of program spendingInclusive recovery program : increase hiring of people with conviction histories under dei. Determine goals, committments, staff involved, and understand these questions: which hr team, division, region are we working with? What department will be open for jobs? How many jobs over a two year period? What are those jobs?
$165 spent0% of program spendingOther programs includes employment advisory committee, train the trainer, interview and coaching
The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $123,252.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2021 to 2022, from $37k to $60k (+62%).
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.
100% of WHAT'S NEXT WASHINGTON’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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
Susan Mason
Executive director
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $6k → $59.
6 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 WHAT'S NEXT WASHINGTON’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
WHAT'S NEXT WASHINGTON has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
72% 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 WHAT'S NEXT WASHINGTON.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 75% · 2019 30% · 2020 33% · 2021 46% · 2022 24% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
40% of WHAT'S NEXT WASHINGTON's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
61% of WHAT'S NEXT WASHINGTON'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 $114k that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $181k 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.
Against its field
WHAT'S NEXT WASHINGTON has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,885 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,885 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2022
Organizations like WHAT'S NEXT WASHINGTON
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
87%
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 WHAT'S NEXT WASHINGTON: 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 WHAT'S NEXT WASHINGTON?
- WHAT'S NEXT WASHINGTON (Washington) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $295,388 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($80,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WHAT'S NEXT WASHINGTON have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $295,388 in grants to WHAT'S NEXT WASHINGTON, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WHAT'S NEXT WASHINGTON?
- SEATTLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WHAT'S NEXT WASHINGTON 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 FY2022 (financials across 2018–2022), and the filings of 13 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