How much does Workforce Development Corporation give?

Workforce Development Corporation reported 48 itemized grants totaling $6,046,666, out of $6,812,284 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 135 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Workforce Development Corporation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Employment (51%), Community Improvement (26%), Science & Tech (5%).

Who are Workforce Development Corporation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: DB Grant Associates ($8.1M), Fullstack Academy LLC ($3.3M), Leap Inc ($2.7M).

Does Workforce Development Corporation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 65% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Workforce Development Corporation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Robin Hood Foundation, Citi Foundation, Pinkerton Foundation.

Where is Workforce Development Corporation based?

Workforce Development Corporation is based in NY.

Workforce Development Corporation

Workforce Development Corporation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

Workforce Development Corporation

Promote workforce development and job creation through activities specifically designed to create skilled workforce in the City of New York.

$6.8M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$1.3M

Largest

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$26MCommunity Improvement$13MScience & Tech$2.7MArts & Culture$2.1MHealth$2.0MEducation$1.9MEnvironment$1.2MHuman Services$1.1MOther$0

02FY2025 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 48 grants below total $6,046,666, the rows itemized in this filing. The $6,812,284 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $765,618 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k11 grants · $80k
$10k–50k20 grants · $520k
$50k–250k8 grants · $912k
$250k+9 grants · $4.5M

$31,208

Median grant

States reached

$17M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Codesmith LLC	$1,263,521
Hot Bread Kitchen LTD	$853,365
Soulful Synergy LLC	$462,400
Staten Island MakerSpace Inc	$375,679
Vizient Inc	$336,777
The Research Fdn of the City Univer	$334,743
Union Settlement Association Inc	$333,838
LEAP Inc dba Brooklyn Workforce I	$324,517
Forum for Urban Design DBA Urban De	$250,000
Uptown Grand Central Corp	$231,144
Consortium For Worker Education Inc	$157,164
Empowered Hospitality LLC	$149,088
Helping Hands Licensed Behavior Ana	$92,897
Urbane Development Group Ltd	$87,250
NYSARC Inc NYC Chapter DBA AHRC	$70,849

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $5.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$39M · 77 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

77 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 50 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

255

Total granted

$39M

$9.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%

+15%

Still filing today

26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesEmploymentHealthPhilanthropyOther

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

LI
LEAP INC
6× · 2018–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +38%
TK
The Knowledge House Fellowship Inc
4× · 2017–2020 · $1.6M · revenue +364% · 31% of their budget
RT
ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC
6× · 2018–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +84%

Funded once

TM
THE MAYOR'S FUND TO ADVANCE NEW YORK CITY
one grant, 2019 · $2.3M · revenue -89%
TE
THE EDWARD J MALLOY INITIATIVE FOR CONSTRUCTION SKILLS INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $285k · revenue +28%
NL
NYBDC LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
one grant, 2022 · $225k · revenue +15%

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.

Hudson Yards Development Corporation

See schedule oto coordinate and facilitate the economic development of the hudson yards area of manhattan. this includes construction of an extension to the no. subway line, the coordination of the design and construction of certain public…

Community Improvement

Workforce Development Corporation

Promote workforce development and job creation through activities specifically designed to create skilled workforce in the City of New York.

Education

New York City Business Assistance Corporation

To reduce unemployment, promote and provide for additional and maximum employment in NYC, encourage the development and/or retention of businesses in NYC; instruct or train individuals to improve and develop their capabilities for jobs in…

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New York City Energy Efficiency Corporation

Nyceec's mission is to deliver financing solutions and advance markets for energy efficiency and clean energy in communities.

Environment

Ie New York College

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Education

Housing Partnership Development Corporation

Housing partnership development corporation functions to provide available low and moderate cost housing in the new york metro area through new housing production, preservation, rehabilitation, as well as the revitalization and…

Housing & Shelter

Technyc Inc

An engaged network of tech leaders working to foster a dynamic, diverse, and creative new york. we bring together new yorkers to support a successful technology ecosystem, attract and retain top-tier talent, and celebrate new york and the…

Community Improvement

The Partnership for New York City Inc

(a) the development, stimulation, encouragement, improvement and promotion of the business climate in new york city; (b) the fostering of trade and commerce in new york city and the promotion of the general welfare andprosperity of new…

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Fora Pathways Inc

The organization provides opportunities for people with disabilities to obtain competitive employment through long-term contracts with government agencies and businesses. employees are trained and supported for on the job success.

Employment

City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture

Gotham Health Fqhc Inc

Gotham health fqhc, inc., operating together with new york city health and hospitals corporation under a public entity model federally qualified health center, provides you and your family with access to primary and preventative healthcare…

Health

The Real Estate Board of New York Inc

1. to unite in common organization those professionally engaged in real estate. 2. to protect and promote the mutual interests of its members. 3. to formulate and maintain ethical standards for the guidance of its members in their…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Union Settlement Association Inc; the most unlike its peers is Roundabout Theatre Company 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

49 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. 49 of the 353 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

48/49

Grantees still filing

28/49

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$28,210,200Human Services$5,746,663Community Improvement$4,687,011Housing & Shelter$2,655,086Education$2,526,126Employment$2,389,459Arts & Culture$1,563,484

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.

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.

Robin Hood FoundationNY22.2× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Robin Hood Foundation · Citi Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · Ponce de Leon Foundation · Altman Foundation · New York City Business Assistance Corporation · The Clark Foundation · Tiger Foundation · The Ira Decamp Foundation Xxxxx2009 · Community Reinvestment Fund Inc · Capital One Foundation Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc

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 Workforce Development Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Workforce Development Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home