Connecticut · Public charity
The Workplace Inc
The organization provides job training, placement, and counseling for dislocated and economically disadvantaged individuals in the bridgeport, norwalk, stamford and valley labor market areas.
- $19M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $3.2M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $118,235
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,297,554
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Workplace Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $3.2M | 14% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $4.0M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $3.9M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $4.0M | 10% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $3.5M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $3.7M | 0% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $5.0M | 0% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $6.0M | 5% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Career Resources Inc | $26,780,004 | 9 | 62% |
| Capital Workforce Partners Inc | $3,241,541 | 9 | 2% |
| Ri Department of Labor and Training | $1,943,205 | 2 | n/a |
| morrison group limited liability company | $1,167,766 | 9 | n/a |
| Workforce Alliance Inc | $933,661 | 9 | 2% |
| Marrakech Inc | $835,735 | 9 | 1% |
| The Justice Education Center Inc | $796,472 | 7 | 13% |
| Lifebridge Community Services Inc | $471,997 | 5 | 1% |
| Dci Resources LLC | $384,982 | 5 | n/a |
| Urban League of Southern CT INC | $338,554 | 4 | 29% |
Show all 27 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Career Resources Inc | $26,780,004 | 9 | 62% |
| Capital Workforce Partners Inc | $3,241,541 | 9 | 2% |
| Ri Department of Labor and Training | $1,943,205 | 2 | n/a |
| morrison group limited liability company | $1,167,766 | 9 | n/a |
| Workforce Alliance Inc | $933,661 | 9 | 2% |
| Marrakech Inc | $835,735 | 9 | 1% |
| The Justice Education Center Inc | $796,472 | 7 | 13% |
| Lifebridge Community Services Inc | $471,997 | 5 | 1% |
| Dci Resources LLC | $384,982 | 5 | n/a |
| Urban League of Southern CT INC | $338,554 | 4 | 29% |
| Applied Behavioral Rehabilitation Instit | $259,541 | 2 | 7% |
| Bridgeport Organization for Youth Sports Inc | $239,437 | 4 | 91% |
| Central Connecticut Coast Young Men's Christian Association Inc | $213,768 | 3 | 0% |
| Emgc Training Inc | $189,752 | 2 | n/a |
| The Housing Collective Inc | $183,007 | 8 | 2% |
| New Reach Inc | $155,868 | 2 | 1% |
| Housatonic Community College | $144,617 | 1 | n/a |
| Goodwill of Western and Northern Connecticut Inc | $142,999 | 3 | 0% |
| Columbus House Inc | $112,899 | 2 | 1% |
| career technology llc | $57,199 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Milford Employment and Training Admin | $54,349 | 2 | n/a |
| Norwalk Community College | $52,573 | 1 | n/a |
| Project Model Offender Reintergration Experience Inc | $26,800 | 2 | 0% |
| Ascension Performance Inc | $18,910 | 1 | n/a |
| Connecticut Retail Merchants Association | $17,398 | 1 | n/a |
| The Kennedy Collective Inc | $13,792 | 1 | 0% |
| Allstate Commercial | $1,600 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
The Workplace Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Peoples United Community Foundation · United Way of Greater New Haven Inc · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Workforce Alliance Inc · Yale University · Webster Bank Charitable Foundation · Capital Workforce Partners Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Workplace Inc
- How much does The Workplace Inc give?
- The Workplace Inc reported 7 itemized grants totaling $3,221,746, out of $19,013,673 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Workplace Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Employment (98%), Housing & Shelter (1%), Human Services (1%).
- Who are The Workplace Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Career Resources Inc ($27M), Capital Workforce Partners Inc ($3.2M), Ri Department of Labor and Training ($1.9M).
- Does The Workplace Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Workplace Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, Peoples United Community Foundation, United Way of Greater New Haven Inc.
- Where is The Workplace Inc based?
- The Workplace Inc is based in CT.
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