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West Central Job Partnership Inc

Job training and workforce development

$598k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$95k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

Employment$2.8MPhilanthropy$376kCommunity Improvement$252kEducation$132kYouth Development$65k
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 11 grants below total $287,288 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $597,613 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $310,325 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $116k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $152k
$13,615
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Mahoning Valley Manufacturing$94,661
United Way of Mercer County$57,570
Mohawk Area School District$36,531
National Center of Urban Solution$30,000
Robert James Employement Services$15,800
Mercer County Adult Education Cente$13,615
Eastern Gateway Community College$10,275
Lawrence County School-to-Work$10,000
Adult Literacy Lawrence Cty$8,566
Butler County Community College$5,270
New Growth Group LLC$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%Grove City Education Center: $19k → 13%Mercer County Adult Education Cente: $14k → 13%Grove City Education Center: $11k → 13%Grove City Education Center: $7k → 13%Mahoning-Youngstown CommunityAction: $7k → 19%Mahoning-Youngstown CommunityAction: $3k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.4M · 16 repeat orgs$212k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
5

Total granted

$3.4M
$171k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+13%

Still filing today

44%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementEmploymentEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther

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

  • MV
    MAHONING VALLEY MANUFACTURERS FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +165% · 69% of their budget
  • TE
    TOWARDS EMPLOYMENT INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $455k · revenue +62%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF MERCER COUNTY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $376k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • TW
    TRI-COUNTY WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARD INC
    one grant, 2019 · $95k · revenue +5%
  • PN
    PENN NORTHWEST DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $41k · revenue +145%
  • CC
    Columbiana County Career & Tech
    one grant, 2021 · $17k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Northern Tier Industry and Education Consortium in

To create a highly-skilled workforce in Northeastern Pennsylvania through the integration of school employment and training processes.

Employment
2
Muncie-Delaware County Chamber of Commerce

To be an action-oriented, visionary organization which will stimulate progress, foster economic growth and enhance individual opportunity to achieve a high quality of life for everyone.

3
Westmoreland-Fayette Workforce Investment Board

The principal purpose of the organization is to create a workforce preparation and employment system designed to meet the needs of the areas businesses and job seekers

Employment
4
Philadelphia Works Inc

Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.

Employment
5
Youngstown Area Electrical Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee

To provide training to electrical apprentices in mahoning and trumbull counties, and through that training to provide skilled workers to area employers.

Employment
6
Lawrence Economic Development Corporation

To promote economic development in the City of Ironton and the County of Lawrence, Ohio. To act as designated agent for providing governmental assistance to business enterprise and to promote the general economic development of Lawrence…

7
Employment & Training Inc

The corporation operates a variety of programs that provide remedial education, job training services, and information and referral services to disadvantaged individuals in huntingdon and fulton county, pennsylvania.

Employment
8
Wayne Economic Development Council Inc

To maximize the development and utilization of the human and economic resources of the wayne county georgraphical area in order to create or preserve jobs and employment opportunities and improve the welfare of people of the area.

9
Mercer County Opportunity Industries

Training handicapped individuals

Employment
10
Afl-Cio Appalachian Council Inc

Job training and development

11
Lehigh Valley Workforce Investment Board Inc

To implement a pa careerlink delivery system which serves our community as a clearinghouse of resources, inclusive of all information, employment opportunities, training and education options and economic development.

Philanthropy
12
Lawrence County Industrial Development Council

To promote business development within lawrence county, illinois.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Towards Employment Inc and the most unlike its peers is United Way of Mercer County. 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 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 23 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MAHONING VALLEY MANUFACTURERS FOUNDATION INC — $1,625,472 · Community ImprovementMAHONING VALLEY MANUFACTURERS FOUNDATION INC+1 more — $40,500 · Community ImprovementNational Center of Urban Solution — $288,500 · OtherNational Center of Urban So…COUNTY OF VENANGO — $211,600 · OtherCOUNTY OF VENANGOEastern Gateway Community College — $95,625 · OtherEastern Gateway Community C…New Growth Group LLC — $65,000 · OtherNew Growth Group LLCLawrence County Career and Tech — $51,188 · OtherLawrence County Career and …Mohawk Area School District — $36,531 · OtherMercer County Career Center — $31,758 · OtherTrumbull Career & Tech — $30,200 · Other+6 more — $75,352 · Other+6 moreTOWARDS EMPLOYMENT INC — $455,000 · EmploymentTOWARDS EMPLOYMEN…TRI-COUNTY WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARD INC — $95,130 · EmploymentTRI-COUNTY WORKFO…UNITED WAY OF MERCER COUNTY — $375,900 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY …LAWRENCE COUNTY SCHOOL TO WORK INC — $61,114 · EducationAdult Literacy of Lawrence County — $26,024 · EducationMERCER COUNTY ADULT EDUCATION CENTER — $50,255 · Human ServicesMAHONING-YOUNGSTOWN COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP — $10,192 · Human Services
Community Improvement$1,665,972Other$885,754Employment$550,130Philanthropy$375,900Education$87,138Human Services$60,447

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMAHONING VALLEY MANUFACTURERS FOUNDATION INC — $1,625,472 over 7y, 69% of budgetTOWARDS EMPLOYMENT INC — $455,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MERCER COUNTY — $375,900 over 5y, 13% of budgetTRI-COUNTY WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARD INC — $95,130 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetLAWRENCE COUNTY SCHOOL TO WORK INC — $61,114 over 5y, 25% of budgetMERCER COUNTY ADULT EDUCATION CENTER — $50,255 over 5y, 7.9% of budgetPENN NORTHWEST DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $40,500 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetAdult Literacy of Lawrence County — $26,024 over 6y, 6.6% of budgetYOUNGSTOWN AREA GOODWILL INDUSTRIES INC — $11,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAHONING-YOUNGSTOWN COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP — $10,192 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 MAHONING VALLEY MANUFACTURERS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds TOWARDS EMPLOYMENT INC
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF MERCER COUNTY
  • Who funds TRI-COUNTY WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARD INC
  • Who funds LAWRENCE COUNTY SCHOOL TO WORK INC
  • Who funds MERCER COUNTY ADULT EDUCATION CENTER
  • Who funds PENN NORTHWEST DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
  • Who funds Adult Literacy of Lawrence County
  • Who funds YOUNGSTOWN AREA GOODWILL INDUSTRIES INC
  • Who funds MAHONING-YOUNGSTOWN COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP

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.

Community Foundation of Western Pennsylvania and Eastern OhioPA13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio · 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 West Central Job Partnership 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your 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
    5report 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, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to West Central Job Partnership Inc?

    Find your warmest path to West Central Job Partnership Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $289k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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