Colorado · Nonprofit
WORK OPTIONS FOR WOMEN DBA WORK OPTIONS
WORK OPTIONS FOR WOMEN DBA WORK OPTIONS (Colorado) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,158,393 to it, the largest being FOX FAMILY FOUNDATION ($280,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $579k
What Work Options for Women Dba Work Options does
Mission
Work options for women helps people overcome barriers to sustainable employment by building confidence while providing resources and culinary training.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Food Provisions:In 2025, Work Options provided a total of 111,410 nutritious meals to individuals and families experiencing food insecurity and housing instability.- 109,000 fully prepared, nourishing meals were delivered to residents of Colorado Villages Micro Communities at the Monroe and Steele sites, providing three meals per day to individuals transitioning out of homelessness.- 2,260 meals were provided to Work Options program participants, all of whom experience food insecurity, supporting daily access to breakfast and lunch during training and employment preparation.- Located at the Mosaic Campus, which also serves Denver Public Schools and low income seniors and families, Work Options launched its first Thanksgiving community meal in 2025, serving 150 neighbors at no cost to them. This initiative will continue as an annual community tradition in the years ahead. We plan to feed 250 for 2026.Culinary Job Training & Employment Services:In 2025, Work Options provided culinary job training and employment services to 230 adults from historically excluded backgrounds, many of whom experienced justice involvement, homelessness, trauma, or long-term unemployment.- Out of 230…
$2,057,045 spent$147,794 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,057,045.
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 2023 to 2024, from $872k to $549k (−37%).
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 16% · 2018 16% · 2019 21% · 2020 34% · 2021 46% · 2022 34% · 2023 35% · 2024 40% · 2025 38%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of WORK OPTIONS FOR WOMEN DBA WORK OPTIONS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Lauren O'Brien
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $117k → $277k.
6 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.6M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Denver Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money WORK OPTIONS FOR WOMEN DBA WORK OPTIONS raised.
From the IRS filings of WORK OPTIONS FOR WOMEN DBA WORK OPTIONS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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
WORK OPTIONS FOR WOMEN DBA WORK OPTIONS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 27% · 2019 24% · 2020 29% · 2021 14% · 2022 17% · 2023 19% — 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
42% of WORK OPTIONS FOR WOMEN DBA WORK OPTIONS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
72% of WORK OPTIONS FOR WOMEN DBA WORK OPTIONS's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $493k 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
WORK OPTIONS FOR WOMEN DBA WORK OPTIONS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,211 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,211 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like WORK OPTIONS FOR WOMEN DBA WORK OPTIONS
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WORK OPTIONS FOR WOMEN DBA WORK OPTIONS?
- WORK OPTIONS FOR WOMEN DBA WORK OPTIONS (Colorado) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,158,393 to it, the largest being FOX FAMILY FOUNDATION ($280,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WORK OPTIONS FOR WOMEN DBA WORK OPTIONS have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $2,158,393 in grants to WORK OPTIONS FOR WOMEN DBA WORK OPTIONS, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WORK OPTIONS FOR WOMEN DBA WORK OPTIONS?
- FOX FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $280,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WORK OPTIONS FOR WOMEN DBA WORK OPTIONS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 37 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