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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.

$6.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$3.1M
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Employment$32MEducation$4.1MCommunity Improvement$3.3MHealth$1.7MYouth Development$623k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $31k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $1.0M
  • $250k+2 grants · $5.5M
$196,498
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 55% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 13%Neighbors Educational Opportu: $260k → 9%JOBWORKS INC: $3.1M → 12%GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF MICHIANA INC: $2.4M → 13%Michigan City Area Schools: $407k → 15%INDIANA ALLIANCE OF BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS: $336k → 16%NEIGHBORS EDUCATIONAL OPPORTU: $247k → 9%JOBWORKS INC: $2.6M → 12%GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF MICHIANA INC: $2.3M → 13%MICHIGAN CITY AREA SCHOOLS: $338k → 15%INDIANA ALLIANCE OF BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS: $201k → 16%NEIGHBORS EDUCATIONAL OPPORTU: $213k → 9%JOBWORKS INC: $2.5M → 12%GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF MICHIANA INC: $2.2M → 13%MICHIGAN CITY AREA SCHOOLS: $242k → 15%Neighbors Educational Opportu: $180k → 9%JOBWORKS INC: $2.2M → 12%GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF MICHIANA INC: $1.9M → 13%Lake Ridge Schools: $181k → 15%MICHIGAN CITY AREA SCHOOLS: $200k → 15%JOBWORKS INC: $2.0M → 12%GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF MI: $1.4M → 13%MICHIGAN CITY AREA SCHOOLS: $198k → 15%JOBWORKS INC: $1.8M → 12%GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF MI: $1.1M → 13%MICHIGAN CITY AREA SCHOOLS: $196k → 15%Jobworks Inc: $1.5M → 12%Goodwill Industries of MI: $921k → 13%TRADEWINDS: $410k → 15%Michigan City Area Schools: $196k → 15%JOBWORKS INC: $1.1M → 12%GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF MI: $852k → 13%TRADEWINDS: $333k → 15%MICHIGAN CITY AREA SCHOOLS: $192k → 15%Jobworks Inc: $1.0M → 12%Goodwill Industries of MI: $812k → 13%TRADEWINDS: $246k → 15%MICHIGAN CITY AREA SCHOOLS: $185k → 15%WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC: $233k → 15%School City of Hammond: $412k → 15%SCHOOL CITY OF HAMMOND: $352k → 15%SCHOOL CITY OF HAMMOND: $301k → 15%School City of Hammond: $278k → 15%SCHOOL CITY OF HAMMOND: $229k → 15%SCHOOL CITY OF HAMMOND: $213k → 15%SCHOOL CITY OF HAMMOND: $211k → 15%SCHOOL CITY OF HAMMOND: $209k → 15%MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF NORTHWEST INDIANA: $157k → 15%Gary Community School Corp: $159k → 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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$41M · 12 repeat orgs$529k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
3

Total granted

$41M
$212k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+70%

Still filing today

58%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $317k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EmploymentEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • JI
    JOBWORKS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $18M · revenue +66%
  • GI
    GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF MICHIANA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $14M · revenue +54%
  • TS
    TRADEWINDS SERVICES INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • GC
    Gary Community School Corporation
    one grant, 2017 · $159k
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER NORTHWEST INDIANA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $46k · revenue -2%
  • NC
    NEWTON COUNTY ADULT LEARNING CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +70%
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
Business and Career Services Inc

Access to quality services provided through a network of dedicated organizations designed to meet the workforce needs of business, job-seekers, and the community.

Education
2
Goodwill Industries of Northern Il and Wi Stateline Area Inc

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.…

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3
Tecumseh Area Partnership Inc

Employment and training services

Employment
4
Goodwill's Green Works Inc

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…

Employment
5
Lincoln Behavioral Services

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…

Health
6
Tri Industries Nfp

Employment, training, and support for individuals with significant disabilities

Employment
7
Northeast Indiana Works Inc

The corporation was formed to receive and administer funds for educational, charitable, job training, and workforce development purposes in northeast indiana.

Employment
8
Grow Southwest Indiana Workforce Board Inc

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…

Community Improvement
9
Pathways of Wisconsin Inc

Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.

Human Services
10
Gateway to Learning

To provide lifelong learning for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities that promotes active inclusion at home, at work and in the community.

Human Services
11
Careers Industries Inc

To provide vocational and educational training for developmentally disabled adults in southeastern wisconsin.

Employment
12
Leadership Indianapolis Inc

Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jobworks Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 17 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JOBWORKS INC: $17,801,407 · EmploymentJOBWORKS INCGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF MICHIANA INC: $13,900,741 · EmploymentGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF MICHIANA INC+1 more: $232,646 · EmploymentSCHOOL CITY OF HAMMOND: $2,204,414 · OtherSCHOOL CITY OF HAMM…Michigan City Area Schools: $2,154,084 · OtherMichigan City Area …MERRILLVILLE COMMUNITY SCHOOL CORP: $918,429 · OtherMERRILLVILLE COMMUN…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS IN INDIANA INC: $577,441 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS …MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $498,186 · OtherMENTAL HEALTH AMERI…LAKE RIDGE NEW TECH SCHOOLS: $320,166 · OtherSCHOOL CITY OF EAST CHICAGO: $283,443 · Other+1 more: $158,693 · OtherNEIGHBORS EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES: $899,101 · EducationGary Alumni Pathway to Students Inc: $389,000 · Education+1 more: $7,602 · EducationTRADEWINDS SERVICES INC: $1,117,254 · HealthSOUTHLAKETRI-CITY MANAGEMENT CORPORATIO DBA GEMINUS CORPORATION: $84,380 · HealthBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER NORTHWEST INDIANA INC: $45,650 · Youth Development
Employment$31,934,794Other$7,114,856Education$1,295,703Health$1,201,634Youth Development$45,650

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJOBWORKS INC: $17,801,407 over 9y, 18% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF MICHIANA INC: $13,900,741 over 9y, 4.6% of budgetTRADEWINDS SERVICES INC: $1,117,254 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetNEIGHBORS EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES: $899,101 over 4y, 10% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS IN INDIANA INC: $577,441 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $498,186 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetGary Alumni Pathway to Students Inc: $389,000 over 3y, 43% of budgetWorkforce Development Services Inc: $232,646 over 1y, 68% of budgetSOUTHLAKETRI-CITY MANAGEMENT CORPORATIO DBA GEMINUS CORPORATION: $84,380 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER NORTHWEST INDIANA INC: $45,650 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEWTON COUNTY ADULT LEARNING CENTER INC: $7,602 over 1y, 22% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Early Learning Indian…Nisource Charitable F…Lilly Endowment IncUniversity of Indiana…Lake Area United Way …United Way of Northwe…Porter County Communi…John W Anderson Found…Legacy Foundation IncProject Lead the Way …Share Our StrengthAmazonsmile Foundation
Early Learning Indiana IncIN21.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Center of Workforce Innovations Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Center of Workforce Innovations Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 17 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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