· Public charity
The Center of Workforce Innovations Inc
To be a catalyst for community and business investment in building and aligning workforce, education, and economic development strategies while accelerating economic growth for regions and states.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $31k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+2 grants · $5.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOBWORKS INC | $3,141,153 |
| GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF MICHIANA INC | $2,341,411 |
| TRADEWINDS | $245,571 |
| WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC | $232,646 |
| MICHIGAN CITY AREA SCHOOLS | $196,498 |
| MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF NORTHWEST INDIANA | $156,956 |
| MERRILLVILLE COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $118,000 |
| SOUTHLAKE TRI STATE MANAGEMENT CORP | $84,380 |
| SCHOOL CITY OF EAST CHICAGO | $31,278 |
| INDIANA ALLIANCE OF BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS | $9,229 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 55% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
12 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $317k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- JIJOBWORKS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $18M · revenue +66%
- GIGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF MICHIANA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $14M · revenue +54%
- TSTRADEWINDS SERVICES INC4× · 2022–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +36%
Funded once
- GCGary Community School Corporationone grant, 2017 · $159k
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER NORTHWEST INDIANA INCone grant, 2022 · $46k · revenue -2%
- NCNEWTON COUNTY ADULT LEARNING CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +70%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Access to quality services provided through a network of dedicated organizations designed to meet the workforce needs of business, job-seekers, and the community.
The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…
Employment and training services
Provide day training and habilitation to adult individuals with developmental disabilities including an opportunity for integration, use of generic services, an opportunity to use natural and typical settings, services with age and social…
Goodwill industries is a nonprofit provider of employment and other critical community based services for people who have a disability, people who lack education or job experience, households facing economic challenges, and others in need.
The mission of goodwill's green works, inc. is to provide training and develop the skills of people with employment challenges to enable them to work. environmentally friendly services are provided to customers while creating job…
To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…
The corporation was formed to receive and administer funds for educational, charitable, job training, and workforce development purposes in northeast indiana.
Grow southwest workforce board, inc. provides guidance for, and reviews, monitors and evaluates activities under the wioa act, in order to create a system that integrates all public workforce development resources into a system to benefit…
Employment, training, and support for individuals with significant disabilities
Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.
To provide lifelong learning for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities that promotes active inclusion at home, at work and in the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jobworks Inc and the most unlike its peers is Newton County Adult Learning Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds JOBWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF MICHIANA INC ↗
- Who funds TRADEWINDS SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS IN INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Gary Alumni Pathway to Students Inc ↗
- Who funds Workforce Development Services Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHLAKETRI-CITY MANAGEMENT CORPORATIO DBA GEMINUS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER NORTHWEST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds NEWTON COUNTY ADULT LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Early Learning Indiana Inc · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Lilly Endowment Inc · University of Indianapolis · Lake Area United Way Inc · United Way of Northwest Indiana Inc · Porter County Community Foundation Inc · John W Anderson Foundation · Legacy Foundation Inc · Project Lead the Way Inc · Share Our Strength · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Center of Workforce Innovations Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.