California · Nonprofit
CAREER NEXUS
CAREER NEXUS (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being COLLEGE FUTURES FOUNDATION ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.8M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $50k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Career Nexus does
Mission
Career Nexus is an engine to elevate business and industry by training the next generation of workforce. Career Nexus is a collaboration of aligned employers, educators, training organizations, essential support services, and job seekers working together to create a workforce ecosystem that will transform internship-ready young adults into tomorrow's confident and skilled workforce. Career Nexus works to better prepare talented, diverse workforce for high-demand, good-paying jobs in the greater fresno region - all while giving employers access to a robust workforce pipeline. Career Nexus serves the people, businesses and the fresno community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Young adults apply to participate in the Career Nexus program. Once accepted - they will complete a skill assessment and trainings provided by Career Nexus. Career Nexus will match interns with high-quality paid internships and other work-based opportunities with a network of employers.
Young adults apply to participate in the Career Nexus program. Once accepted - they will complete a skill assessment and trainings provided by Career Nexus. Career Nexus will match interns with high-quality paid internships and other work-based opportunities with a network of employers.
$3,221,207 spent100% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,221,207.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $1.2M to $1.5M (+21%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2023 81% · 2024 36% · 2025 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
50% of CAREER NEXUS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Kurt Madden
CEO
Board chair
Stephen Morris
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of CAREER NEXUS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of CAREER NEXUS's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
CAREER NEXUS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,012 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,012 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CAREER NEXUS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CAREER NEXUS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CAREER NEXUS?
- CAREER NEXUS (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being COLLEGE FUTURES FOUNDATION ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CAREER NEXUS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $50,000 in grants to CAREER NEXUS.
- Who is the largest funder of CAREER NEXUS?
- COLLEGE FUTURES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAREER NEXUS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing