Kansas · Nonprofit
LOCAL WORKFORCE INVESTMENT AREA III INC
LOCAL WORKFORCE INVESTMENT AREA III INC (Kansas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being YOUTHBUILD GLOBAL INC ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.5M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $15k
- Net assets
- $587k
What Local Workforce Investment Area III Inc does
Mission
To lead a system that produces a high quality workforce capable of meeting the changing needs of employers in the kansas city area
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Wioa - to increase the region's network of employment and training opportunities in order to provide the necessary skills and training for low income participants and dislocated workers to become self sufficient.
$2,433,837 spent58% of program spendingThe american rescue plan act (arpa) provided coronavirus state and local fiscal recovery funds (slfrf) to unified government of wyandotte county and johnson county. Portions of these funds were granted to the organization to train, upskill, and reskill eligible wyandotte and johnson county residents and provide wrap-around services to fill in-demand jobs in priority sectors as well as other high demand occupations.
$484,413 spent11% of program spendingRetainworks program: workforce partnership is a sub-grantee of a us dol/odep grant focused on helping people whose employment has recently been disrupted because of an injury, illness, or worsening health problem. Retainworks is part of the national retaining employment and talent after injury/illness network. Retainworks provides opportunities to improve stay-at-work/return-to-work outcomes for individuals with both employment-related and non-employment-related injuries and illnesses.
$328,245 spent8% of program spendingTo include all various other state and local grants focused on workforce development activities by providing skills and training, and other wrap-around services for area participants and employers.
$971,248 spent23% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,217,743.
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 2023 to 2024, from $580k to $1.1M (+88%).
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 100% · 2018 98% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 93% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% · 2024 96% · 2025 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of LOCAL WORKFORCE INVESTMENT AREA III INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Keely Schneider
Executive director
Board chair
John Hutzenbuhler
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of LOCAL WORKFORCE INVESTMENT AREA III 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.
Where its funders are
LOCAL WORKFORCE INVESTMENT AREA III INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Kansas, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
LOCAL WORKFORCE INVESTMENT AREA III INC's revenue grew 25% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,012 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding LOCAL WORKFORCE INVESTMENT AREA III INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.8M on record.
- Department of Labor$1.8M
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 LOCAL WORKFORCE INVESTMENT AREA III 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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 LOCAL WORKFORCE INVESTMENT AREA III 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 LOCAL WORKFORCE INVESTMENT AREA III INC?
- LOCAL WORKFORCE INVESTMENT AREA III INC (Kansas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being YOUTHBUILD GLOBAL INC ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LOCAL WORKFORCE INVESTMENT AREA III INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $15,000 in grants to LOCAL WORKFORCE INVESTMENT AREA III INC.
- Who is the largest funder of LOCAL WORKFORCE INVESTMENT AREA III INC?
- YOUTHBUILD GLOBAL INC is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOCAL WORKFORCE INVESTMENT AREA III INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 1 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