Ohio · Nonprofit
COLUMBUS WORKS INC
COLUMBUS WORKS INC (Ohio) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,447,009 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($469,385). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $551k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $0
What Columbus Works Inc does
Mission
Columbus works is a non-profit organization providing hope and encouragement to area residents living in poverty who desire to advance to economic self-sufficiency through employment
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Served several individuals in training, referral, and full wrap around support and coaching services. Includes over 45 hours each of instruction, one-on-one regular meetings with columbus works employment coach, and professional life coaching; use of our computer labs equipped with full microsoft software package and internet access.
$470,468 spent96% of program spendingIndirect program expenses such as vouchers for public transportation to/from training, to/from interviews, to/from first day on new jobs, meals during training, drug tests, background screens, and special clothing and equipment for work.
$15,621 spent3% of program spendingEmployment placement expense for class materials cost and classroom supplies
$5,660 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $491,749.
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 2020 to 2021, from $232k to $109k (−53%).
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: 2019 10% · 2020 13% · 2021 20% · 2022 36% · 2023 45% · 2024 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of COLUMBUS WORKS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Kaiya Harris Thompson
CEO
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 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $43k → $99k.
3 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 COLUMBUS WORKS 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
COLUMBUS WORKS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
67% 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 COLUMBUS WORKS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 63% · 2019 61% · 2020 25% · 2021 36% · 2022 38% · 2023 36% — 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
50% of COLUMBUS WORKS 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
74% of COLUMBUS WORKS INC's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $492k 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
COLUMBUS WORKS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like COLUMBUS WORKS 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COLUMBUS WORKS 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 COLUMBUS WORKS INC?
- COLUMBUS WORKS INC (Ohio) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,447,009 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($469,385). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLUMBUS WORKS INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,447,009 in grants to COLUMBUS WORKS INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLUMBUS WORKS INC?
- COLUMBUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $469,385 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLUMBUS WORKS INC 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 14 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