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AURORA COMMONS

EIN 35-2515559 SEATTLE, WA

Largest nonprofits in Washington

Revenue 2024
$2,089,870
Expenses 2024
$2,361,293

Program services were 76.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
N50
Classification
1200
Street
8916 AURORA AVE N

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

Aurora Commons cultivates belonging and community to foster health and healing among our neighbors experiencing poverty and homelessness.

  • Aurora Commons cultivates community and belonging to foster health and healing among our neighbors experiencing poverty and homelessness. Aurora Commons welcomed 41,937 visits from our neighbors experiencing poverty & homelessness, a 64% increase from the year before. The increase is reflected in all of our program engagement as well. Advocates worked with 1,117 individuals, 10% increase from FY24. Our team-based advocacy leaves lots of room for people to come as they are and sit down with an advocate. This low-barrier approach has helped us better connect with those who come to Aurora Commons each week. Our onsite clinics also saw an increase of patients, SHE Clinic seeing 276 individuals and Aurora Clinic seeing 222 individuals. Our goal is to continue to re-imagine how we can better serve our amazing neighbors. After over 11 years of holding the stories of our neighbors we recognize both the complexities of each individual narrative as well as some of the commonalities that emerge as barriers to seeking care and taking steps toward stability. We offer many practical resources for our neighbors who are struggling to access basic survival needs, however, at the heart of our philosophy of care we know that over time as these neighbors build trusting relationships with our staff, they will feel safe enough to address their more complex needs and overcome these challenges and barriers they face when trying to navigate the larger network of social services in Seattle.

    Expenses $1,805,468 · Grants $168,895

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Elizabeth Dahl Helendi

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $141,632
    From this org
    $132,188
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,444
    Hours/week
    40

  • Kelly Brown

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Jamie Clausen

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Mary Riski

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Carol Antoncich

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Christin Gordanier

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Laurie Olson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mark Petterson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dan Wise

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Brian Wyse

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Elizabeth Skelton

    Director until Jun 24

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,089,870
    Expenses
    $2,361,293
    Contributions
    $2,137,220
    Grants paid
    $168,895
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,143,156
    Expenses
    $2,244,067
    Contributions
    $2,169,807
    Grants paid
    $286,638
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,736,169
    Expenses
    $1,458,758
    Contributions
    $1,703,283
    Grants paid
    $163,105

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,119,411
    Expenses
    $1,138,319
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,714,103

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $955,976
    Expenses
    $879,252
    Assets (EOY)
    $283,011

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $882,698
    Expenses
    $700,761
    Assets (EOY)
    $251,097

  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $172,469
    Expenses
    $201,263
    Assets (EOY)
    $28,103

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.