Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
NATIONAL FUND FOR WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS
NATIONAL FUND FOR WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,388,535 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($12,500,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $39M
- Net assets
- $16M
What National Fund for Workforce Solutions does
Mission
We collaborate with workers, employers, and communities to advance a skilled workforce, promote good jobs, and invest in equitable outcomes.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Equip workers for success:workers succeed in a well-designed job at an organization where they are valued. From training, upskilling, and apprenticeship to worker engagement, satisfaction, and well-being, we promote the full range of skills development and supports that enable workers to thrive. We recognize the humanity of workers and advance practices and workplace cultures that allow workers to show up as their full selves.
$3,110,542 spentof which $804,000 as grants$116,077 earned by the program55% of program spendingChange systems:solving workforce problems requires seeing the whole picture, in all of its complexity. It means making connections among organizations, policies, and mindsets. Systems thinking helps identify the right thing to work on--to address what is preventing a problem from being solved. Systems change strategies go beyond symptoms and seek to treat causes, examining the underlying conditions of power and relationships that are driving events. Such strategies can be a critical step to help communities systematically address racial disparities.
$1,397,133 spentof which $404,000 as grants$116,076 earned by the program25% of program spendingActivate employers to make jobs better:we take a demand-driven approach to workforce development, because employers are critical partners in community development and in achieving our mission. But connecting people to employment is not enough--workers thrive in good jobs at an organization where they are valued. Investing in frontline workers improves recruitment and retention and creates competitive advantage. We activate employers to make jobs better because good jobs generate benefits for individuals and their families, businesses, and communities.
$1,153,692 spentof which $14,000 as grants$116,076 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,661,367.
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 $7.9M to $17M (+115%).
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: 2021 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of NATIONAL FUND FOR WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Amanda Cage
President & CEO
Board chair
Alejandro Mendoza
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $1.5M → $13M.
3 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 NATIONAL FUND FOR WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS’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 FUND FOR WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
39% 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 FUND FOR WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 44% · 2019 33% · 2020 35% · 2021 29% · 2022 47% · 2023 63% — growing more concentrated.
“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
18% of NATIONAL FUND FOR WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.
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
NATIONAL FUND FOR WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 FUND FOR WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,551 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,551 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like NATIONAL FUND FOR WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 5 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL FUND FOR WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS: 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 NATIONAL FUND FOR WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS?
- NATIONAL FUND FOR WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,388,535 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($12,500,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL FUND FOR WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $39,388,535 in grants to NATIONAL FUND FOR WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL FUND FOR WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS?
- GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $12,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL FUND FOR WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 23 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing