Familyworks

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
911757277
IRS 990 coverage
2012–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Seattle, WA, USA
Phone
2066471770
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Community Service Clubs

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$4,726,498
Expenses
$4,978,390
Assets
$10,181,283
Liabilities
$2,130,694

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

16 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • RICHARD NEELY (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • SHANDA BOYETT (PRESIDENT)
  • MARCIA WRIGHT-SOIKA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • MARCIA WRIGHT-SOIKA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $191,808 total reported compensation
  • REHANA LANEWALA (DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT & COMM): $137,676 total reported compensation
  • KRISTIN GRANSTRAND (DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMS): $129,677 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Familyworks partners with families to alleviate food insecurity and ensure they have resources and support to overcome systemic barriers to equity, build stable communities, and thrive.

What it reported doing in 2025

Food bank: familyworks' food bank services served 7,301 households in 2025. Families accessed food bank services through multiple avenues, including wallingford food bank, mobile food pantry, home delivery, online market, farm to preschool, and powerpack backpack program. In 2025, familyworks began renovations on its main service location for food access programs - wallingford food bank. After being in service for more than 28 years at this location, the renovation provides critical updates to infrastructure, capitalized equipment, storage, and layout, as well as a market-style distribution area for participants.in 2024, familyworks completed the two-year $7.2 million nourishing communities capital campaign, increasing our revenue beyond a regular year of fundraising. In 2025, we moved forward with fulfilling the promises of this campaign, which includes starting a long-needed renovation of wallingford food bank, and using restricted funds to build capacity of the organization in leadership, employee investment, and technology.familyworks launched a three year strategic plan in 2024, renewing the familyworks mission to partner with families to alleviate food insecurity and ensure they have resources and support to overcome systemic barriers to equity, build stable communities, and thrive.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 69% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 58% for direct work, and 42% for grants.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 74
  • Transparency & Controls: 73
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 32
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 82%; rating input score 82
  • Program expense ratio: 77.6%; rating input score 78
  • Fundraising efficiency: $7.5 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 99.2%; rating input score 99; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -5.3%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.05; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 9.2%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 12.1% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 22.9% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 82% of revenue deployed · 77.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $3.9M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $192K · 16 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 33 of 34 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2012 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 26/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 36/100.