Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKFORCE BOARDS
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKFORCE BOARDS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $980,521 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($360,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.4M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $981k
- Net assets
- $-934539
What National Association of Workforce Boards does
Mission
To effectively advocate and continuously advance america's workforce system by ensuring workforce boards have the expertise and capacity to meet the needs of business, job seekers, and communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The forum: the annual forum is nawb's premier event where workforce development professionals and leaders in business, government, labor, and education gather to gain insight into the current state of our nation's workforce system and consider the goals and policy framework affecting the future of human capital development. The annual forum is held in washington, d.c. Each year over four days for a national conversation around the shared responsibility to address the needs of regional economies by strengthening the ability of american businesses and career seekers to compete in a global economy. In 2025, the annual forum welcomed approximately 1,180 attendees and contributors, including private sector board members, nonprofit and government board members, state and local workforce development board (wdb) directors and staff, and additional attendees joining from education, economic development, state and federal government, and other community-based organizations.
$1,103,981 spentof which $26,000 as grants$1,699,482 earned by the program42% of program spendingWorkforce programs: nawb provides its expertise on national workforce development projects and programs funded by partners in government, business and industry, and foundations. These programs allow nawb to advance the work of the public workforce system and broaden the impact, to increase the effectiveness of workforce programs, and to improve the efficiency of workforce development efforts across the nation. Key projects and initiatives include: encouraging two-gen workforce strategies, h1b america's promise, advancing apprenticeships, industry partnerships, and increasing local workforce boards involvement in skills-based hiring initiatives.
$834,106 spent$314,079 earned by the program31% of program spendingAdvocacy: nawb is the only national association that advocates for wdbs and collaborates with its 12,000 business members to develop workforce strategies that help america work. Nawb works closely with policymakers in washington, dc, to inform the national strategy as it relates to wdbs and our partners in education, economic development, labor, and business. As part of its advocacy work, nawb provides congressional testimony, implements and organizes grassroots campaigns, garners appointments to national committees on workforce issues, partners with other national associations and think tanks, engages in weekly conversations with policymakers, and provides written analysis and updates on legislative activities on capitol hill.
$328,414 spent$31,554 earned by the program12% of program spendingMember services
$262,997 spent$526,629 earned by the program10% of program spendingBusiness improvement
$126,050 spent5% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,655,548.
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 $1.1M to $1.8M (+66%).
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: 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 2% · 2021 22% · 2022 4% · 2023 9% · 2024 13% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
25% of NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKFORCE BOARDS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Bradford Turner-Little
President and CEO (thru oct 2025)
Board chair
Lisanne Mcnew
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $120k → $141k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $93k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Solar Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKFORCE BOARDS raised.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKFORCE BOARDS’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
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKFORCE BOARDS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
41% 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 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKFORCE BOARDS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 83% · 2021 89% · 2022 88% · 2023 71% — 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
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKFORCE BOARDS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $100k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKFORCE BOARDS's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKFORCE BOARDS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.9M on record — $1.9M federal, $4k state.
- Department of Agriculture$1.9M
- VT$3k
- OK$825
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 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKFORCE BOARDS
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKFORCE BOARDS?
- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKFORCE BOARDS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $980,521 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($360,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKFORCE BOARDS have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $980,521 in grants to NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKFORCE BOARDS, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKFORCE BOARDS?
- WK Kellogg Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $360,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKFORCE BOARDS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 7 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