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LAUREL HIGHLANDS WORKFORCE AND OPPORTUNITY CENTER

LAUREL HIGHLANDS WORKFORCE AND OPPORTUNITY CENTER (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,659,403 to it, the largest being ALLEGHENY FOUNDATION ($3,055,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.6M
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$3.7M
Net assets
$2.0M
6/9 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Laurel Highlands Workforce and Opportunity Center does

Mission

At lhwoc, our mission is to remove the barriers for individuals who are under & unemployed or in a transition of employment, by providing high-quality medical training and a career opportunity in that field.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. At lhwoc, our mission is to remove the barriers for individuals who are under & unemployed or in a transition of employment, by providing high-quality medical training and a career opportunity in that field.

    $310,085 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $310,085.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($496k) Expenses 100 ($207k) Net assets 100 ($289k)2021 Revenue 334 ($1.7M) Expenses 108 ($222k) Net assets 596 ($1.7M)2022 Revenue 108 ($534k) Expenses 254 ($525k) Net assets 599 ($1.7M)2023 Revenue 113 ($562k) Expenses 408 ($843k) Net assets 502 ($1.5M)2025 Revenue 316 ($1.6M) Expenses 368 ($760k) Net assets 707 ($2.0M)
20202021202220232025
Revenue (316)Expenses (368)Net assets (707)Peer revenue range

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 $311k to $3.0M (+874%).

$311k
$3.0M
$3.1M
$3.2M
$4.2M
20202021202220232025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 3% · 2025 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of LAUREL HIGHLANDS WORKFORCE AND OPPORTUNITY CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$289k
’20
$1.4M
’21
$10k
’22
−$281k
’23
$805k
’25
5.7
months of
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

Michel Keller

Executive director-9/2024

Board chair

Patrick R Wallace

Chairperson of the board

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20202021202220232025
Listed666411
Joined·+0+1+0·
No longer listed·012·
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $1.9M → $493k.

1 of 9 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 LAUREL HIGHLANDS WORKFORCE AND OPPORTUNITY CENTER’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

LAUREL HIGHLANDS WORKFORCE AND OPPORTUNITY CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

83%
largest funder
97%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 92% · 2021 77% · 2022 84% · 2023 70% — 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

83% of LAUREL HIGHLANDS WORKFORCE AND OPPORTUNITY CENTER's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

98% of LAUREL HIGHLANDS WORKFORCE AND OPPORTUNITY CENTER's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA
VA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LAUREL HIGHLANDS WORKFORCE AND OPPORTUNITY CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin51% · top quartile
Months of reserve5.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)26% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding LAUREL HIGHLANDS WORKFORCE AND OPPORTUNITY CENTER receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $445k on record.

Federal$445k
grants $445kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Labor$445k

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 LAUREL HIGHLANDS WORKFORCE AND OPPORTUNITY CENTER

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

41% of spending goes to programs.

Program 41%Management 59%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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 LAUREL HIGHLANDS WORKFORCE AND OPPORTUNITY CENTER?
LAUREL HIGHLANDS WORKFORCE AND OPPORTUNITY CENTER (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,659,403 to it, the largest being ALLEGHENY FOUNDATION ($3,055,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LAUREL HIGHLANDS WORKFORCE AND OPPORTUNITY CENTER have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $3,659,403 in grants to LAUREL HIGHLANDS WORKFORCE AND OPPORTUNITY CENTER, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LAUREL HIGHLANDS WORKFORCE AND OPPORTUNITY CENTER?
ALLEGHENY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,055,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LAUREL HIGHLANDS WORKFORCE AND OPPORTUNITY CENTER 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 9 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