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CAREER RESOURCES INC

CAREER RESOURCES INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,086,662 to it, the largest being THE WORKPLACE INC ($26,780,004). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$16M
Funders on record
49
Grants received
$38M
Net assets
$5.2M
30/49 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 76%
01What it does

What Career Resources Inc does

Mission

Career resources, inc. Offers jobseekers throughout connecticut, the training, support and resources needed to become employed and succeed in the workforce.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Workforce development american job centers (ajc) as the ajc one stop operator, Career Resources Inc. (cri) manages the coordinated delivery of services for universal access through ajc one stop centers in southwestern and northwestern connecticut. In partnership with the ct department of labor, career resources provides comprehensive employment and training services, resulting in increased earnings for the job seeker and a competitive, trained workforce for the business community. Job seekers have access to a single point of entry to a network of workforce development services including, but not limited to, classroom training, education and vocational programs, program partner services, comprehensive case management and career counseling, and integrated programs such as the workforce innovation and opportunity act (wioa) individual training accounts for in-demand occupational skills training. Jobs first employment program (jfes) the jfes program provides employment assessment and services, assistance in developing an individualized employment plan, job search assistance, vocational education, subsidized employment, adult basic education and/or employment related support services…

    $5,949,250 spent$341,024 earned by the program
    42% of program spending

  2. Strive is a three week, fulltime work readiness training program featuring a series of highly effective and engaging attitudinal workshops in a simulated work environment. Training focuses on developing positive attitudes and work habits for successful longterm employment. Career resources assumed the operations of strive new haven in april of 2012, and now operates all four strive sites in bridgeport, hartford, waterbury and new haven connecticut. Strive has helped train and place nearly 300 participants last year.

    $2,212,186 spent$126,807 earned by the program
    16% of program spending

  3. Reentry and community release operates three homes with a forty-five bed capacity (male). The organization also operates one home with a fifteen bed capacity (female). The organization provides treatment and rehabilitation services for the male and female residents of the program and works with local human services organizations and religious groups in providing the best available support and services to the residents. Reentry employment opportunities federal grant passed through the workplace, inc. To provide prerelease case managemnt services to participants enrolled in linking to employment activities prerelease(leap) program.

    $4,404,352 spent$252,467 earned by the program
    31% of program spending

  4. Adult and youth programs ged/eslour yearround, inhouse program provides a convenient way for our customers to receive classroom and computer based training to pass the ged test and earn their high school diploma, opening doors to a whole new range of training and employment opportunities or enhance their english coversational skills. Youth career advancement (yca) youth career advancement (yca) is a free, 5 week professional development program operated in partnership with youthworks. This program focuses on enhancing career and college readiness in the 16-24 year-olds in the greater bridgeport area. Secure jobs ct is a two-year demonstration pilot designed to increase the income of families transitioning from homelessness to housing by connecting them to the education, training and supports they need to secure and maintain stable, competitive employment. This will be accomplished by better integrating and coordinating the efforts of the homeless services, workforce and child care sectors to effectively serve families participating in the department of housing's (doh's) connecticut's rapid rehousing program (ctrrp). Foster grandparents funded by the corporation for national and…

    $1,518,100 spent$87,021 earned by the program
    11% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $14,083,888.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($5.5M) Expenses 100 ($5.7M) Net assets 100 ($374k)2018 Revenue 125 ($6.9M) Expenses 118 ($6.8M) Net assets 129 ($481k)2019 Revenue 147 ($8.0M) Expenses 138 ($7.9M) Net assets 269 ($1.0M)2020 Revenue 165 ($9.1M) Expenses 157 ($9.0M) Net assets 284 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 178 ($9.7M) Expenses 165 ($9.4M) Net assets 370 ($1.4M)2022 Revenue 174 ($9.5M) Expenses 170 ($9.7M) Net assets 326 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 289 ($16M) Expenses 231 ($13M) Net assets 1023 ($3.8M)2024 Revenue 344 ($19M) Expenses 296 ($17M) Net assets 1530 ($5.7M)2025 Revenue 292 ($16M) Expenses 284 ($16M) Net assets 1380 ($5.2M)
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Revenue (292)Expenses (284)Net assets (1380)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $3.3M to $6.7M (+101%).

$636k
$1.2M
$2.0M
$3.0M
$2.9M
$3.3M
$6.7M
$9.7M
$9.8M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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2022
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 91% · 2018 86% · 2019 84% · 2020 83% · 2021 89% · 2022 85% · 2023 73% · 2024 75% · 2025 87%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

95% of CAREER RESOURCES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 458 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$242k
’17
$107k
’18
$166k
’19
$59k
’20
$319k
’21
−$164k
’22
$2.6M
’23
$1.9M
’24
−$268k
’25
1.8
months of
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

Scott Wilderman

President & CEO

Board chair

Michael Stayman

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed81014192120212727
Joined·+2+6+8+5+0+7+10+2
No longer listed·02331642
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $4.1M → $5.3M.

Funder
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total
The Workplace Incunclassified
$27M
Strive International Incunclassified
$2.3M
funders
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17 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of CAREER RESOURCES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 funders by total. 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.

How concentrated its funding is

CAREER RESOURCES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

84% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CAREER RESOURCES INC.

70%
largest funder
84%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 78% · 2019 79% · 2020 75% · 2021 93% · 2022 59% · 2023 58% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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.

How long its funders stay

50% of CAREER RESOURCES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

83% of CAREER RESOURCES INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.

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CT
RI
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FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Connecticut out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CAREER RESOURCES INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 290 employment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−2% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 290 employment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Government funding CAREER RESOURCES INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $59.4M on record — $9.7M federal, $49.7M state.

Federal$9.7M
grants $9.7Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Corporation for National and Community Service$4.3M
  • Department of Labor$4.0M
  • Department of Justice$747k
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$500k
  • Department of Commerce$163k
State$49.7M
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By state
  • CT$29.0M
  • MA$20.7M
  • FL$1k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like CAREER RESOURCES INC

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 Connecticut

The Workplace Inc87%Workforce Alliance Inc86%Capital Workforce Partners Inc84%Women and Families Center81%Community Solutions Inc81%The Children's Community Programs of Ct80%Readyct Inc80%I Care Outreach Inc80%

Nationally

The Workplace Inc87%Workforce Alliance Inc86%Capital Workforce Partners Inc84%Youth Job Center Inc82%Women and Families Center81%Forward Careers Inc81%Workforce Connections Inc81%Community Solutions Inc81%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 10%Fundraising 4%

Governance

19
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CT

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Entry Point Staffing LLC · disregarded
  • The Bridge on Main LLC · disregarded
  • Union Home LLC · disregarded

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CAREER RESOURCES INC: 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 RESOURCES INC?
CAREER RESOURCES INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,086,662 to it, the largest being THE WORKPLACE INC ($26,780,004). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CAREER RESOURCES INC have?
IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $38,086,662 in grants to CAREER RESOURCES INC, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CAREER RESOURCES INC?
THE WORKPLACE INC is the largest funder on record, with $26,780,004 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CAREER RESOURCES INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 49 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing