Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
CONNECTION TRAINING SERVICES
CONNECTION TRAINING SERVICES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,755,185 to it, the largest being PHILADELPHIA WORKS INC ($1,394,974). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $185k
What Connection Training Services does
Mission
Provide training for individuals interested in making positive improvement in their life
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Americorp - youthbuild programs across the u.s. Help unemployed and out-of-school young people ages 16 to 24 attain their high school equivalency (hse) or high school diploma. During that time, they also learn career skills by building affordable housing and other community assets in their neighborhoods while engaging in community service and leadership training. Graduates leave prepared for success in post-secondary education, careers and registered apprenticeships - and as a part of a strong and supportive global community.
$80,907 spent7% of program spendingYouthbuild - youthbuild is a program to allow non-profit organizations to fund projects to assist high-risk youth learn housing construction job skills and complete their high school education. Participants enhance their skills as they construct and/or rehabilitate affordable housing for low-income and homeless persons or families. Grant funds will be used to provide disadvantaged youth with: the education and employment skills necessary to achieve economic self- sufficiency in occupations in high demand and postsecondary education and training opportunities; opportunities for meaningful work and service to their communities; and opportunities to develop employment and leadership skills and a commitment to community development among youth in low-income communities.
$580,169 spent50% of program spendingPhiladelphia works - occupational skills. To provide support to families as they make the transition from dependence on public assistance to self-sufficiency. Pa's wioa youth investment encourages the network of workforce development providers along with public housing agencies to develop workforce programs for needy and at-risk youth that provide employment, educational experiences, and essential skills such as financial literacy and time management. The organziation will recruit, enroll, and serve at least 15 youth and youn adults, ages 16 to 24 years with little or no work experience and targeted outreach to youth who reside in north philadelphia.
$507,288 spent43% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,168,364.
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 2019 to 2020, from $175k to $454k (+159%).
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 90% · 2018 53% · 2019 51% · 2020 45% · 2021 68% · 2022 89% · 2023 71% · 2024 64%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of CONNECTION TRAINING SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (72% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Omar Wilson
Executive director
Board chair
Craig Nelson
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $50k → $424k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 CONNECTION TRAINING SERVICES’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
CONNECTION TRAINING SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 CONNECTION TRAINING SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 87% · 2020 89% · 2021 88% · 2022 77% · 2023 88% — 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.
Where its funders are
81% of CONNECTION TRAINING SERVICES's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21 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.
Against its field
CONNECTION TRAINING SERVICES runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 611 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 611 unclassified nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding CONNECTION TRAINING SERVICES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.3M on record.
- Department of Labor$2.6M
- Department of Justice$501k
- Department of Health and Human Services$200k
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 CONNECTION TRAINING SERVICES
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 CONNECTION TRAINING SERVICES: 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 CONNECTION TRAINING SERVICES?
- CONNECTION TRAINING SERVICES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,755,185 to it, the largest being PHILADELPHIA WORKS INC ($1,394,974). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CONNECTION TRAINING SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $1,755,185 in grants to CONNECTION TRAINING SERVICES, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONNECTION TRAINING SERVICES?
- PHILADELPHIA WORKS INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,394,974 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONNECTION TRAINING SERVICES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 5 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