· Public charity
Jobs for the Future Inc
Jff is building a future that works - for everyone.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k48 grants · $1.0M
- $50k–250k49 grants · $5.5M
- $250k+11 grants · $5.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BURNING GLASS INSTITUTE | $1,050,450 |
| EDX BOOT CAMPS LLC | $948,298 |
| EDX LLC | $800,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $697,403 |
| THE COUNCIL OF STATE GOVERNMENTS LTD | $400,000 |
| THE EMPOWERMENT CENTER | $350,000 |
| CHICAGO WOMEN IN TRADES | $275,217 |
| JEVS HUMAN SERVICES | $255,232 |
| INTELLIGENT PARTNERSHIPS INC | $255,125 |
| HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY TRAINING AND EDUCATION FUND DBA HOSPITALITY TRAINING | $250,000 |
| JFF LABS INC | $250,000 |
| FSG INC | $247,500 |
| CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO DBA OFFICE OF ECONOMIC AND WORKFORCE DEV | $227,730 |
| PARTNERSHIP FOR A BETTER SAN DIEGO | $200,000 |
| EL SOL NEIGHBORHOOD EDUCATIONAL CENTER | $200,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 10% of Jobs for the Future Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.
189 repeat relationships: 71 still active in FY2024, 118 since wound down; 39 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PSPER SCHOLAS INC3× · 2017–2019 · $1.7M · revenue +480%
- BGBURNING GLASS INSTITUTE2× · 2023–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +31%
- WRWISCONSIN REGIONAL TRAINING PARTNERSHIP5× · 2017–2021 · $1.4M · revenue +11%
Funded once
- TBTURNING BASIN LABS CO-OP INCone grant, 2023 · $610k
- AFAudacious Futures Corporationone grant, 2019 · $506k
- PLPANOWATCH LLCone grant, 2023 · $318k
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.
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.
NCWE promotes student success and excellence in education and training by providing the link between policy and practice.
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
The massachusetts workforce association (mwa) is a statewide membership association that leads, advocates and convenes on behalf of the massachusetts workforce development system.
Upwardly global removes employment barriers for immigrant, refugee, and asylee professionals while advancing the inclusion of their skills into the u.s. economy.
EWIB efficiently coordinates employment-related services in concert with a multitude of state and local agencies at benefit to both businesses and job-seekers. These services offer new opportunities and/or skills to the regional workforce,…
The business-higher education forum is a national network that connects corporate and college leaders to identify and build the talent solutions that address priority talent needs for employers and the american economy. corporate…
Formed in 2014, workcred is an affiliate of the american national standards institute (ansi). workcred's mission is to strengthen workforce quality by improving the credentialing system, ensuring its ongoing relevance, and preparing…
Meet the workforce needs of employers and support economic development in greater new bedford.
To provide leadership and support for the national effort to increase the representation of successful african american, native american and latinx women and men in engineering and technology, math, and science-based careers.
National skills coalition (nsc) fights for a national commitment to inclusive, high-quality skills training so that more people have access to a better life, and more local businesses see sustained growth. since 2000, through expert…
The attainment network builds networks that transform education-to-workforce systems, erase persistent and pervasive equity gaps, expand opportunities for learners, and meet the economic demands for a highly skilled and educated workforce.
The career education colleges and universities (cecu) is the premier source of crucial information and public policy recommendations that promote access to career education and the importance of workforce development.
How this is measured
238 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 238 of the 432 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds PER SCHOLAS INC ↗
- Who funds BURNING GLASS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN REGIONAL TRAINING PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN STATE AFL-CIO WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO WOMEN IN TRADES ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL OF STATE GOVERNMENTS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH TECH HIGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Chicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative ↗
- Who funds INLAND EMPIRE UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds TEXAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds LABOR INSTITUTE FOR TRAINING INC ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH CITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEVS HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds Teachers College Columbia University ↗
- Who funds HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY TRAINING & EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN INSTITUTE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: American Association of Community Colleges · The Aspen Institute Inc · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · New America Foundation · Foundation for California Community Colleges · Achieving the Dream Inc · Gates Foundation · Mdrc · American Association of Colleges and Universities · College Futures Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Truth Initiative Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jobs for the Future Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jobs for the Future Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Capital Workforce Partners Inc: 86% of income from government
- Masshire Hampden County Workforce Board Inc: 72% of income from government
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
- Education Development Center Inc: 65% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- Newark Alliance Inc: 6% of income from government
- Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology: 5% of income from government
- University of New Haven: 2% of income from government
- Employ Prince George's County: 1% of income from government
- Rowan University Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
- Achieving the Dream Inc: 0% of income from government
- Portland State University Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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