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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PROFESSIONALS

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PROFESSIONALS (Missouri) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,560 to it, the largest being FAMILY HEALTH INTERNATIONAL INC ($20,760). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3.2M
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$40k
Net assets
$2.0M
0/2 repeat funders
01What it does

What National Association of Workforce Development Professionals does

Mission

The mission of the National Association of Workforce Development Professionals is to be the national voice for the profession and meet the individual professional development needs of the membership.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Providing membership forum for individuals involved in human resources development. Works to improve effectiveness of training programs. Increase professionalism through personal development.

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($1.1M)2018 Revenue 110 ($1.2M) Expenses 127 ($1.5M) Net assets 71 ($784k)2019 Revenue 140 ($1.5M) Expenses 117 ($1.4M) Net assets 84 ($921k)2020 Revenue 65 ($709k) Expenses 69 ($814k) Net assets 74 ($818k)2021 Revenue 115 ($1.3M) Expenses 92 ($1.1M) Net assets 91 ($998k)2022 Revenue 185 ($2.0M) Expenses 148 ($1.8M) Net assets 115 ($1.3M)2023 Revenue 255 ($2.8M) Expenses 207 ($2.5M) Net assets 148 ($1.6M)2024 Revenue 321 ($3.5M) Expenses 272 ($3.2M) Net assets 175 ($1.9M)2025 Revenue 294 ($3.2M) Expenses 266 ($3.1M) Net assets 182 ($2.0M)
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Revenue (294)Expenses (266)Net assets (182)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 2023 to 2024, from $1.9M to $2.6M (+37%).

$1.4M
$1.2M
$1.2M
$1.0M
$1.4M
$1.6M
$1.9M
$2.6M
$2.5M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 10% · 2021 7% · 2022 7% · 2023 11% · 2024 13% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

9% of NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PROFESSIONALS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,434 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$91k
’17
−$306k
’18
$137k
’19
−$105k
’20
$163k
’21
$266k
’22
$332k
’23
$293k
’24
$67k
’25
3.8
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

Melissa J Robbins

CEO

Board chair

Dana Keller

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.

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Listed354036353433343729
Joined·+10+15+0+0+6+11+6+3
No longer listed·51911710311
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PROFESSIONALS’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 DEVELOPMENT PROFESSIONALS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% 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

100% 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 DEVELOPMENT PROFESSIONALS.

52%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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 DEVELOPMENT PROFESSIONALS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 2 states in all.

IA
NC

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PROFESSIONALS has grown faster than half of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve3.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PROFESSIONALS

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In Missouri

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

26
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PROFESSIONALS?
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PROFESSIONALS (Missouri) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,560 to it, the largest being FAMILY HEALTH INTERNATIONAL INC ($20,760). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PROFESSIONALS have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $39,560 in grants to NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PROFESSIONALS.
Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PROFESSIONALS?
FAMILY HEALTH INTERNATIONAL INC is the largest funder on record, with $20,760 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PROFESSIONALS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2 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