California · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT TRAINING
CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT TRAINING (California) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,222,426 to it, the largest being La Cooperativa Campesina de California ($13,708,683). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $35M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $9.6M
What Center for Employment Training does
Mission
The mission of Center for Employment Training "CET" is to promote human development and education by providing people with marketable skills training and supportive services that contribute to self-sufficiency.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The mission of Center for Employment Training "CET" is to promote human development and education by providing people with marketable skills training and supportive services that contribute to self-sufficiency.
$20,258,898 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $20,258,898.
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.
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 $33M to $41M (+23%).
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: 2017 89% · 2018 91% · 2020 7% · 2021 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT TRAINING’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Ruben Solorio
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $1.6M → $2.9M.
5 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT TRAINING’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 19 of 21 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
CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT TRAINING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT TRAINING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 99% · 2019 95% · 2020 94% · 2021 89% · 2022 90% · 2023 93% — 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
56% of CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT TRAINING's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
99% of CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT TRAINING's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $760k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT TRAINING runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 290 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 290 employment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT TRAINING receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $87.0M on record.
- Department of Labor$73.2M
- Department of Education$13.8M
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 CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT TRAINING
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
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT TRAINING: 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 CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT TRAINING?
- CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT TRAINING (California) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,222,426 to it, the largest being La Cooperativa Campesina de California ($13,708,683). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT TRAINING have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $15,222,426 in grants to CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT TRAINING, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT TRAINING?
- La Cooperativa Campesina de California is the largest funder on record, with $13,708,683 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT TRAINING 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.
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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 21 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