Ohio · Nonprofit
CINCINNATI WORKS
CINCINNATI WORKS (Ohio) receives grants from 95 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,331,688 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Cincinnati ($3,134,693). 66 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.9M
- Funders on record
- 95
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $5.5M
What Cincinnati Works does
Mission
Cincinnati Works brings hope and encouragement to people living in poverty while assisting them in advancing to self-sufficiency through employment. We provide free training and coaching services.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Financial wellness - provides job seekers with financial coaching with regard to creating household budgets, building credit scores an attain self-sufficiency. Employment services - coordinates with employer partners to provide jobs and opportunities for our job seekers. Community partnerships - embeds coaching services within employer locations to work with employees on barrier removal, retention, and advancement. Fair chance works - provides job seekers, needing a second chance, training with soft skills and employment networks to attain employment, advance in their careers, and into self-sufficiency
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Financial wellness-provides job seekers with financial coaching with regard to creating household budgets, building credit scores, and attaining self-sufficiency.
$821,737 spent27% of program spendingWorkforce connection-embeds coaching services within employer locations to work with employees on barrier removal, retention, and advancement.
$610,583 spent$742,625 earned by the program20% of program spendingWorkforce development-provides job seekers with soft skills and employment networks to attain employment, advance in their careers, and into self-sufficiency.
$490,392 spent$3,430 earned by the program16% of program spendingEmployment services - coordinates with employer partners to provide jobs and opportunities for our job seekers.community partnerships - embeds coaching services within employer locations to work with employees on barrier removal, retention, and advancement.fair chance works - provides members, needing a second chance, training with soft skills and employment networks to attain employment, advance in their careers, and into self-sufficiency.
$1,166,101 spent$200,288 earned by the program38% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,088,813.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $4.8M to $6.3M (+32%).
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: 2020 12% · 2021 10% · 2022 16% · 2023 15% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of CINCINNATI WORKS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
Tianay Amat
President CEO
Board chair
Dave Herche
Board chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 35 funders to 46 funders, grant income fell $1.8M → $1.8M.
15 of 95 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 CINCINNATI WORKS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 95 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
CINCINNATI WORKS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
43% 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 CINCINNATI WORKS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 33% · 2019 27% · 2020 30% · 2021 20% · 2022 26% · 2023 14% — 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
52% of CINCINNATI WORKS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
79% of CINCINNATI WORKS's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
CINCINNATI WORKS is better cushioned than half of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like CINCINNATI WORKS
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
59% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CINCINNATI WORKS?
- CINCINNATI WORKS (Ohio) receives grants from 95 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,331,688 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Cincinnati ($3,134,693). 66 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CINCINNATI WORKS have?
- IRS filings report 95 organizations giving $14,331,688 in grants to CINCINNATI WORKS, 66 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CINCINNATI WORKS?
- United Way of Greater Cincinnati is the largest funder on record, with $3,134,693 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CINCINNATI WORKS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 95 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