Illinois · Nonprofit
CENTRAL STATES SER JOBS FOR PROGRESS INC
CENTRAL STATES SER JOBS FOR PROGRESS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,573,739 to it, the largest being CHICAGO COOK WORKFORCE PARTNERSHIP ($9,555,240). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.1M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Central States Ser Jobs for Progress Inc does
Mission
Job training and placement services
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Summer youth employment program services (syep); serving 200 youth ages 16-24 from chicago's most at risk school age participants, syep youth work in paid work-based learning opportunities sites across the city and various sectors to gain job skills knowledge of preparation. Youth will receive additional support through syep, regularly working with dedicated mentors to develop social and cognitive behavior skills. Additional participants receive supportive service such as transportation assistance.
$472,583 spent14% of program spendingCeja energy transition navigators focuses on outreach, education, and recruitment for clean energy careers by collaborating with local job markets and workforce organizations to place trainees in relevant roles. This program aims to help eligible individuals transition into the clean energy sector by providing the necessary support and resources.
$465,936 spent14% of program spendingChicago youth service corps (cysc) is a program where chicago youth (ages 16-24) can earn money while supporting their neighborhood and city. The program provides participants subsidized wages. The program offers opportunities for community service focused on covid 19 and/or social justice related opportunities through a hybrid approach of in person and virtual project-based learnings and fun virtual events during the fall/winter.
$259,435 spent8% of program spendingThe organization operates a range of other supportive workforce initiatives that complement its core job training and placement mission. These programs provide outreach, case management, mentoring, and paid work experiences for youth and young adults ages 16-24; specialized employment and training services for dislocated workers, immigrants, refugees, and other underemployed adults; and pre-apprenticeship and sector-based training in clean energy, construction, solar installation, and related trades. Additional initiatives support community health outreach, violence prevention, and school and community based engagement to reduce risk factors and connect participants to education, credentials, and sustainable employment.
$2,093,651 spent$42,543 earned by the program64% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,291,605.
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.
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 $885k to $2.6M (+197%).
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 60% · 2018 57% · 2019 56% · 2020 58% · 2021 65% · 2022 68% · 2023 84% · 2024 75% · 2025 54%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Eva Garza Dewaelsche
President & CEO
Board chair
Blanca Vargas
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $2.3M → $1.4M.
1 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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: $43k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest SER Jobs Progress National Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money CENTRAL STATES SER JOBS FOR PROGRESS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of CENTRAL STATES SER JOBS FOR PROGRESS 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
CENTRAL STATES SER JOBS FOR PROGRESS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 CENTRAL STATES SER JOBS FOR PROGRESS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 57% · 2019 80% · 2020 63% · 2021 70% · 2022 73% · 2023 77% — 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
67% of CENTRAL STATES SER JOBS FOR PROGRESS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 82% 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
88% of CENTRAL STATES SER JOBS FOR PROGRESS INC's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $782k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like CENTRAL STATES SER JOBS FOR PROGRESS 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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 4 related entities
- Ser Metro Detroit Jobs for Progress · exempt
- Empresa Inc · exempt
- Samaritan Center Inc · exempt
- Serco Inc · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTRAL STATES SER JOBS FOR PROGRESS INC?
- CENTRAL STATES SER JOBS FOR PROGRESS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,573,739 to it, the largest being CHICAGO COOK WORKFORCE PARTNERSHIP ($9,555,240). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTRAL STATES SER JOBS FOR PROGRESS INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $12,573,739 in grants to CENTRAL STATES SER JOBS FOR PROGRESS INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTRAL STATES SER JOBS FOR PROGRESS INC?
- CHICAGO COOK WORKFORCE PARTNERSHIP is the largest funder on record, with $9,555,240 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTRAL STATES SER JOBS FOR PROGRESS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 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