Wisconsin · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY WORK SERVICES INC
COMMUNITY WORK SERVICES INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $504,115 to it, the largest being BRAND FAMILY FOUNDATION ($250,800). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $504k
- Net assets
- $332k
What Community Work Services Inc does
Mission
Cws provides community-based employment services to persons with developmental disabilities, including job development, placement, on-the-job training, and retention services.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Cws collaborated with over 71 employers in dane county, wisconsin to provide community-based employment to 73 adults with developmental disabilities. These 73 clients displayed the following disabilities or combinations thereof including: autism, cognitive disabilities, visual or hearing disabilities, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, autism, brain injury, chronic mental illness and mild to severe physical limitations and/or behavioral challenges. In 2024, cws has a job retention rate of over 97%. Cws has maintained a job retention rate for its clients of over 95% for the past 31 years. In addition, in 2024, over 97% of cws clients were employed in paid jobs in the community. Based on clients needs, cws offers different levels of ongoing support including: continuous on-site support (30 clients), to daily (27 clients) weekly (7 clients), monthly (9 clients) contact.
$1,446,246 spent$1,424,024 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,446,246.
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 2022 to 2023, from $984k to $584k (−41%).
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 93% · 2020 49% · 2021 33% · 2022 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
5% of COMMUNITY WORK SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Gina Shea
Executive director
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 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $10k → $266k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 COMMUNITY WORK SERVICES 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
COMMUNITY WORK SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 36% · 2020 35% · 2021 62% · 2022 76% · 2023 94% — 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 COMMUNITY WORK SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
86% of COMMUNITY WORK SERVICES INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $86k 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
COMMUNITY WORK SERVICES INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,551 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like COMMUNITY WORK SERVICES 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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 1 related entity
- Community Work Services Foundation · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITY WORK SERVICES 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 COMMUNITY WORK SERVICES INC?
- COMMUNITY WORK SERVICES INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $504,115 to it, the largest being BRAND FAMILY FOUNDATION ($250,800). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY WORK SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $504,115 in grants to COMMUNITY WORK SERVICES INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY WORK SERVICES INC?
- BRAND FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $250,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY WORK SERVICES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 12 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