Daily Work
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 134336713
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2019, Form 990-N 2012
- Location
- Saint Paul, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6512043043
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Centers to Support the Independence of Specific Populations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $406,675
- Expenses
- $355,007
- Assets
- $193,544
- Liabilities
- $27,477
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Julie Hoff (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Mari Jo Long (Chair)
- Priya Bhavsar (Secretary)
- Sofia Chamorro Pilacuan (Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Daily Works mission is to partner with people to find quality work by providing comprehensive employment services and fostering meaningful, supportive relationships. Our vision is that good work is foundational to financial sufficiency (Continued on Schedule O)
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, Daily Work partnered with 269 job seekers from 38 countries, providing more than 1,800 individualized employment appointments to help participants obtain quality employment and achieve greater financial stability. Comprehensive services included career counseling, job search assistance, resume and interview preparation, digital literacy and technology access, interpeter services, transportation assistance, practice driving and road test preparation, financial capability education, and referrals for housing, legal, language, and other supportive services. Participants included 78% immigrants, 32% who required interpreter services, and 92% who were living in low-income households, reflecting the increasingly complex barriers facing those seeking employment. Participant feedback demonstrated strong program effectiveness, with 90% reporting they received more help than they expected, 87% saying they felt listened to and respected, (Continued on Sch O)
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 61.3%; rating input score 61
- Program expense ratio: 70.2%; rating input score 70
- Fundraising efficiency: $13.46 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12.7%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.55; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.1% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.2% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 61.3% of revenue deployed · 70.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $249K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 45/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.