Kentucky · Nonprofit
EMERGING WORKFORCE INITIATIVE INC DBA THE BOOK WORKS PROJECT
EMERGING WORKFORCE INITIATIVE INC DBA THE BOOK WORKS PROJECT (Kentucky) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $356,484 to it, the largest being JEWISH HERITAGE FUND FOR EXCELLENCE INC ($155,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $614k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $356k
- Net assets
- $228k
What Emerging Workforce Initiative Inc Dba the Book Works Project does
Mission
The mission of the emerging workforce initiative, inc. Dba the book works project is to create programs, partnerships, information, and support that prepare vulnerable youth for career pathways. The organization focuses on youth and young adults who are at-risk of becoming disconnected from school and work because of educational disruptions, childhood trauma, social or racial discrimination, or economic hardship. The primary activities include: research that identifies and amplifies the reasons young people disconnect in our community; programs that assist young people to succeed in school and work; partnerships that create new opportunities for high school age learners.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The book works education advocates assisted 260 middle and high school students experiencing educational disruption to reconnect with the school options and academic supports. Of the young people who completed services in 2025, 60.7% reached their education goal.
$190,873 spent33% of program spendingThe book works advocates and americorps members served 93 students who were not attending school on school days due to suspension, chronic absences, or gaps in school enrollment. 96.5% of the students returned to school following participation.
$286,832 spent50% of program spendingThe book works youth and family services team assisted 63 adult caregivers to build skills and access resources to support their children's return to regular school attendance. 100% of participants demonstrated increased skills.
$96,677 spent17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $574,382.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $72k to $216k (+200%).
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: 2024 57% · 2025 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of EMERGING WORKFORCE INITIATIVE INC DBA THE BOOK WORKS PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
John Langford
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $34 → $71k.
1 of 8 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 EMERGING WORKFORCE INITIATIVE INC DBA THE BOOK WORKS PROJECT’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
EMERGING WORKFORCE INITIATIVE INC DBA THE BOOK WORKS PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
78% 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 EMERGING WORKFORCE INITIATIVE INC DBA THE BOOK WORKS PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 96% · 2022 96% · 2023 42% — 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
79% of EMERGING WORKFORCE INITIATIVE INC DBA THE BOOK WORKS PROJECT's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $183 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
EMERGING WORKFORCE INITIATIVE INC DBA THE BOOK WORKS PROJECT has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like EMERGING WORKFORCE INITIATIVE INC DBA THE BOOK WORKS PROJECT
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In Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EMERGING WORKFORCE INITIATIVE INC DBA THE BOOK WORKS PROJECT?
- EMERGING WORKFORCE INITIATIVE INC DBA THE BOOK WORKS PROJECT (Kentucky) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $356,484 to it, the largest being JEWISH HERITAGE FUND FOR EXCELLENCE INC ($155,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EMERGING WORKFORCE INITIATIVE INC DBA THE BOOK WORKS PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $356,484 in grants to EMERGING WORKFORCE INITIATIVE INC DBA THE BOOK WORKS PROJECT, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EMERGING WORKFORCE INITIATIVE INC DBA THE BOOK WORKS PROJECT?
- JEWISH HERITAGE FUND FOR EXCELLENCE INC is the largest funder on record, with $155,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EMERGING WORKFORCE INITIATIVE INC DBA THE BOOK WORKS PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 8 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