Massachusetts · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS INC
COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,678,039 to it, the largest being GEORGIANA GODDARD EATON MEMORIAL FUND ($5,188,151). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.9M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $7.7M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Community Workshops Inc does
Mission
Founded in 1877, community work services helps people who face barriers to work obtain employment and achieve greater self sufficiency through innovative job training, placement and support services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
See schedule ocommunity workshops' principal programmatic activity is providing career pathways for individuals looking to identify their career goals. Cws builds an action plan to designing and launching sustainable careers. Our principal program includes two weeks of job readiness training where participants work one-on-one with community work services job placement specialists and received a year of follow-up support and job placement services. Our job readiness curriculum provides participants with tools and strategies that enhance our participants' ability to obtain employment through workshops including resume preparation, self-esteem building, job search techniques and resources, interviewing techniques, and networking opportunities. We help our students unlock their full potential through one-on-one coaching. Students learn how to create an eye-catching professional resume and cover letter; build their interview skills; handle difficult situations; build networking skills that will last a lifetime, and connect with industry professionals to find and keep a job that they are passionate about. Participants learn how to plan and set realistic goals after obtaining a desired…
$4,060,892 spentof which $282,623 as grants$4,636,485 earned by the program97% of program spendingSee schedule ocws has a long history of serving people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/dd) and delivering innovative services designed to help them achieve their greatest potential. We are laser focused on helping individuals of all abilities obtain a living wage job. Occupational health involves delivering an array of services and supports that help people with intellectual and development disabilities (I/dd) to obtain the skills to be successful in the employment environment. Since the 1960's, we have been serving adults and transition-age youth with I/dd through a variety of vocational, community-based day supports and supported employment services.the occupational health services we provide are:-guidance and support with developing service and career plans which reflect and individuals short term and long term goals-comprehensive assessments to help an individual discover their skills, preferences, and interests as they relate to work-information and guidance in using and accessing training programs and other desired services (e.g. Further education and academic programs, health and wellness programs, recreational programs other services as they relate to…
$108,803 spentof which $62,095 as grants$124,225 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,169,695.
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 $2.2M to $3.5M (+60%).
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: 2021 3% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
18% of COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (16% for the typical peer).
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.
Board chair
Jamie Ross
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $498k → $994k.
5 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 WORKSHOPS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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
COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
27% 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 COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 56% · 2019 79% · 2020 87% · 2021 57% · 2022 62% · 2023 60% — 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
38% of COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
90% of COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $503k 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 WORKSHOPS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,060 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,060 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $12.5M on record — $4.1M federal, $8.5M state.
- Department of Defense$2.8M
- Department of the Interior$1.3M
- Department of Agriculture$20k
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$6.6M
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$1.8M
- (HH) CONSULTANT SVCS (TO DEPTS)$12k
- (JJ) OPERATIONAL SERVICES$8k
- (EE) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES$4k
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 COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% 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 35 related entities
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- Wildcat Service Corporation · exempt
- Easter Seals New York Inc · exempt
- Granite Pathways · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS INC?
- COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,678,039 to it, the largest being GEORGIANA GODDARD EATON MEMORIAL FUND ($5,188,151). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS INC have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $7,678,039 in grants to COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS INC?
- GEORGIANA GODDARD EATON MEMORIAL FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,188,151 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 31 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