Georgia · Nonprofit
CAREERRISE INC
CAREERRISE INC (Georgia) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,433,977 to it, the largest being THE ARTHUR M BLANK FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,800,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What Careerrise Inc does
Mission
Advancing the economic mobility and regional prosperity by creating new and strengthening existing partnerships and systems that meet employers' talent demands and provide residents with access to sustainable, quality employment opportunities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Westside works program:westside works is a neighborhood-based workforce collaborative serving atlanta's westside communities by providing job training, education services, career navigation, and wraparound supports leading to employment in high-demand industries. Established through investment from the arthur m. Blank family foundation and managed by careerrise since 2020, the program aligns community resources to create pathways to economic mobility. Core training areas include healthcare, hospitality, information technology, and skilled trades. In 2024, westside works served 2,517 individuals, graduated 172 participants from industry training programs, and achieved a 97% industry credential attainment rate. Individuals placed in jobs earned a median wage of $20 per hour.
$2,489,799 spent$1,460,119 earned by the program68% of program spendingIndustry partnership program:careerrise's industry partnerships program serves as a regional workforce intermediary, convening employers, educators, and community organizations to address shared workforce development challenges. The program delivers services aligned with six strategies: hiring and workforce planning; training and apprenticeships; employment success supports; quality careers and workplaces; career awareness; and regional systems support. Leveraging grant funding, the team develops and implements initiatives benefiting employers and job seekers, and provides education, information sharing, and networking for more than 700 stakeholders. Key initiatives include career compass academy, a five-week virtual career exploration and work readiness program for wioa-eligible youth ages 1624 featuring industry panels and online training in five high-demand sectors; the prologis learning program, which provides online training in warehousing, distribution, and logistics to prepare individuals for employment in a rapidly growing sector; and careerready atl, a youth apprenticeship system in partnership with united way of greater atlanta that connects youth of color furthest from…
$1,046,556 spent29% of program spendingEquity @ work program:launched in 2019 by careerrise in partnership with the arthur m. Blank family foundation, atlanta regional commission, community foundation for greater atlanta, federal reserve bank of atlanta, metro atlanta chamber, and united way of greater atlanta, the opportunity access network (oan) is a regional initiative to align workforce system stakeholders around a coordinated vision for metro atlanta's workforce future. In 2024, careerrise convened 30 cross-sector leaders for the oan strategy session and ecosystem reconvening, resuming collaboration paused during the pandemic to reassess goals, address persistent barriers to career advancement, and refine oan's role in driving strategic alignment. Stakeholders established five goals: (1) advance racial equity in workforce policy and practice; (2) develop a regional workforce outcomes metrics platform; (3) expand quality training leading to sustainable, living-wage career pathways; (4) improve secondary student transitions into quality jobs; and (5) enhance employer engagement and coordination across workforce entities to improve performance and equity outcomes.
$121,008 spentof which $324 as grants3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,657,363.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $1.6M to $5.0M (+210%).
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.
39% of CAREERRISE INC’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 3 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
John Helton
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $10k → $936k.
2 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $3.2M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money CAREERRISE INC raised.
From the IRS filings of CAREERRISE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 16 of 17 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
CAREERRISE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 75% — 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.
Where its funders are
81% of CAREERRISE INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $101k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
CAREERRISE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,551 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,551 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding CAREERRISE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $722k on record.
- Department of Labor$722k
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 CAREERRISE 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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CAREERRISE 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 CAREERRISE INC?
- CAREERRISE INC (Georgia) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,433,977 to it, the largest being THE ARTHUR M BLANK FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,800,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CAREERRISE INC have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $2,433,977 in grants to CAREERRISE INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CAREERRISE INC?
- THE ARTHUR M BLANK FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,800,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAREERRISE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 17 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