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· Public charity

Center for Employment Opportunities Inc

We provide effective employment services to individuals recently released from incarceration.

$2.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$528k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Employment$1.4MCrime & Legal$950kYouth Development$359kHousing & Shelter$180kReligion$28k
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $2,438,242, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,728,123 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $289,881 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $53k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $561k
  • $250k+5 grants · $1.8M
$140,421
Median grant
3
States reached
$86M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STARTING OVER INC$528,394
ANTI-RECIDIVISM COALITION$394,217
WHOLE SYSTEMS LEARNING INC$358,766
TURNING POINT ALCOHOL & DRUG EDUCATION PROGRAM INC$283,885
PWT UNITED INC$259,318
A NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT$140,421
RUBICON PROGRAMS INC$138,948
ROOT & REBOUND$121,037
DRY BONES DENVER (DBA PURPLE DOOR COFFEE)$83,935
RESONANCE CENTER FOR WOMEN$76,549
1ST STEP MALE DIVERSION PROGRAM INC$35,894
JUST THE BEGINNING INC$16,878
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $667k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PWT UNITED INC: $259k → 12%RESONANCE CENTER FOR WOMEN: $77k → 15%PTW UNITED INC: $8k → 12%TURNING POINT ALCOHOL & DRUG EDUCATION PROGRAM INC: $284k → 14%TURNING POINT ALCOHOL & DRUG EDUCATION PROGRAM INC: $29k → 14%RESONANCE CENTER FOR WOMEN: $10k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 8 repeat orgs$801k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
1

Total granted

$2.1M
$41k

Still filing today

100%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $759k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’24’25
Crime & LegalHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterReligionEducationHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • SO
    STARTING OVER INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $672k · revenue 0%
  • TA
    THE ANTI-RECIDIVISM COALITION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $545k · revenue +3%
  • TP
    TURNING POINT ALCOHOL AND DRUG EDUCATION PROGRAM INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $313k · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • GA
    GRID ALTERNATIVES
    one grant, 2024 · $41k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Recovery Career Services

Recovery Career Services exists to support individuals in recovery from substance use and those impacted by the criminal justice system in obtaining and maintaining employment. The organization provides career coaching, job readiness…

Human Services
2
Empowering Men and Women on the Move for Re-Entry Inc

Empowering Men and Women On the Move for Re-entry Inc, Supportive Housing Program for who are Homeless in Metro Atlanta. Mission Improve Quality of Life.

Crime & Legal
3
Project Return Inc

People who have just been released from prison are typically stigmatized, overlooked, and pigeonholed by society. when they walk into project return, they discover that here they are valued, heard, and encouraged. while reduction of…

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4
Leveled Up Re-Entry

To promote collaborative services to our participants returning to free society through accountibility and accessibilty, while developing strategies in their individual lives to "strive and thrive" by offering a "net" that "works" of…

Crime & Legal
5
Elevated Community Development Corporation

Training and jobs for exoffenders

Employment
6
The WorkWell Partnership

The WorkWell Partnership operates a four-week job training program consisting of training and counseling, with qualified trainers, mentors, and advocates helping to prepare formerly incarcerated citizens for employment that can be…

Education
7
Healing Urban Barrios

Provide intervention and re-entry services to at risk individuals, families and communities. We aim to promote self-love, self-worth and self recognition through a holistic aproach, using case management, restorative justice, mental…

Human Services
8
Turnaround Tuesday Inc

To prepare, train, and connect returning, unemployed, and underemployed citizens to living wage jobs and to build a vibrant public life.

Human Services
9
The Elevation Project

To meet the needs of formerly incarcerated individuals by providing holistic services in a safe and supportive environment to empower fresh starts and open new opportunities. Our work improves lives reduces recidivism and drives systemic…

Crime & Legal
10
TURN90

Turn90 is a nonprofit employment social enterprise that combines job training, supportive services, and peer mentorship to create a pathway to success after prison.

Crime & Legal
11
Network for New Life

To help ex offenders to report back to community and family through support and job relocation services

Health
12
Beginning Reentry in Educational Services Inc
Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rubicon Programs Inc; the most unlike its peers is Whole Systems Learning. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 13 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
5/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STARTING OVER INC: $671,522 · Housing & ShelterSTARTING OVER INCDRY BONES DENVER: $179,916 · Housing & ShelterDRY BONES DENVERTHE ANTI-RECIDIVISM COALITION: $544,736 · Crime & LegalTHE ANTI-RECIDIVISM COALITI…ROOT & REBOUND: $121,037 · Crime & LegalROOT & REBOUND1ST STEP MALE DIVERSION PROGRAM INC: $57,030 · Crime & Legal1ST STEP MALE DIVERSION PRO…TURNING POINT ALCOHOL AND DRUG EDUCATION PROGRAM INC: $313,063 · Human ServicesTURNING POINT ALCOHOL AND…PWT United Inc: $266,993 · Human ServicesPWT United IncResonance Center for Women Inc: $86,872 · Human ServicesResonance Center for Wome…Whole Systems Learning: $358,766 · EducationWhole Systems…RUBICON PROGRAMS INC: $138,948 · OtherGRID ALTERNATIVES: $41,344 · OtherA NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT: $140,421 · HealthJUST THE BEGINNING: $28,347 · Religion
Housing & Shelter$851,438Crime & Legal$722,803Human Services$666,928Education$358,766Other$180,292Health$140,421Religion$28,347

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSTARTING OVER INC: $671,522 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetTHE ANTI-RECIDIVISM COALITION: $544,736 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTURNING POINT ALCOHOL AND DRUG EDUCATION PROGRAM INC: $313,063 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetPWT United Inc: $266,993 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetDRY BONES DENVER: $179,916 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetRUBICON PROGRAMS INC: $138,948 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetResonance Center for Women Inc: $86,872 over 2y, 0.4% of budget1ST STEP MALE DIVERSION PROGRAM INC: $57,030 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetJUST THE BEGINNING: $28,347 over 2y, 5.8% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC7.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Center for Employment Opportunities Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Center for Employment Opportunities Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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