Washington · Nonprofit
CAREERWORKS INC
CAREERWORKS INC (Washington) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,531,600 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($2,450,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $4.5M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Careerworks Inc does
Mission
Careerworks, inc. Connects young adults from under-resourced communities to lasting, stable careers through free training, and builds supportive partnerships advancing equitable economic opportunity. Careerworks creates an environment where everyonecan achieve meaningful careers, economic stability, and all communities thrive.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Careerworks offers two free industry-specific programs so participants have the skills to succeed and direct access to employers who are hiring. Careerworks partners with experienced workforce development and nonprofit organizations around the country to operate its programs. Careerworks provides curricula, learning management software, support, and a launch grant. Careerworks leverages their community roots to recruit and support participants and connect them directly to employers. Careerworks partners with employers to ensure program participation is always free, and to hire program graduates (75% placement rate).careerworks' model is effective, efficient, and can scale rapidly:careerworks partners with local organizations (training partners) in each market to operate its programs and support recruiting, coaching, local fundraising, and employer connections in the communities in which they are based, all with financial support from careerworks.careerworks currently offers two industry-specific career-readiness programs (banking and non-clinical healthcare), and one industry agnostic job readiness program. These programs support young adults from historically under resourced…
$990,849 spentof which $460,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $990,849.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2023 to 2024, from $148k to $1.3M (+809%).
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: 2018 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of CAREERWORKS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Laurie Stewart
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $708k → $366k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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: $2.6M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money CAREERWORKS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of CAREERWORKS INC’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.
How concentrated its funding is
CAREERWORKS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% 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
61% 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 CAREERWORKS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 36% · 2020 42% · 2021 55% · 2022 90% · 2023 61% — growing more concentrated.
“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 CAREERWORKS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% give in more than one year at all.
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
57% of CAREERWORKS INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2.0M that is directly attributable, 54% of it comes from funders outside Washington, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
CAREERWORKS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding CAREERWORKS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $33k on record.
- FEDERAL$18k
- TRUST FUND$14k
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 CAREERWORKS 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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
49%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- The Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation · exempt
- Washington Bankers Association · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CAREERWORKS 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 CAREERWORKS INC?
- CAREERWORKS INC (Washington) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,531,600 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($2,450,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CAREERWORKS INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $4,531,600 in grants to CAREERWORKS INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CAREERWORKS INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,450,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAREERWORKS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 11 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