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OAI Inc

OAI Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,554,536 to it, the largest being CHICAGO COOK WORKFORCE PARTNERSHIP ($3,834,597). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$6.5M
Funders on record
17
Grants received
$7.6M
Net assets
$1.7M
9/17 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 27%
01What it does

What OAI Inc does

Mission

The Organization has been serving the Chicago metropolitan area with over 25 years of experience in comprehensive workforce development. Its mission is to create a community environment in which all people who desire to do so can access education, training, (see sched. O) work and housing that will allow them to sustain and enjoy safe, secure, and fulfilling lives. The Organization serves people with significant barriers to obtaining and retaining rewarding employment. Clients include individuals making the transition from welfare to work, at-risk youth, Empowerment Zone (EZ) residents, displaced workers, those in need of additional skills, and anyone with earnings below the poverty line. The organization serves approximately 3,500 clients annually.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. OAI Chicago Southland provides direct career training and retention services for underserved populations in the Chicago Southland region. OCS engages its surrounding communities through neighborhood/service provider/employer alliances, recruiting low-income residents for technical training and internships, supporting students through training, connecting them with sustainable careers after graduation and helping to retain them in these positions for at least one year. Located in Park Forest, IL, OCS serves the surrounding Southland communities.

    $2,867,597 spent
    49% of program spending
  2. Pre-Employment Education and Training provides job training, placement and retention services that equip individuals with the skills to compete for living wage jobs and careers in environmental remediation, hazardous waste removal, construction, solar panel installation, landscaping, and other green industries. PEET offers outreach, recruitment, professional development, academic enhancement, financial education, technical skills training, and job placement and retention services to individuals facing multiple barriers to employment. Programs are offered in Chicago, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City, and Dallas.

    $1,393,667 spent
    24% of program spending
  3. The Business and Worker Training division provides worker health & safety training, in compliance with OSHA CFR 1910.120, to emergency first responders, medical first receivers and industry workers who are exposed to hazardous materials. In addition, the division offers customized, cost-effective on-site workforce skills and safety training programs for low-wage and limited English proficient workers employed in various industries, including the Manufacturing, Hospitality and Medical sectors.

    $1,111,276 spent$23,250 earned by the program
    19% of program spending
  4. High Bridge addresses the critical issue of maintaining Green Stormwater Infrastructure by successfully partnering with communities and landowners to restore neglected GSI, implement maintenance plans, train workers, and help advance technical and higher-paying skills for community residents.

    $486,609 spent
    8% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,859,149.

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 ($3.7M) Expenses 100 ($3.6M) Net assets 100 ($999k)2018 Revenue 118 ($4.4M) Expenses 110 ($3.9M) Net assets 148 ($1.5M)2019 Revenue 114 ($4.3M) Expenses 128 ($4.6M) Net assets 118 ($1.2M)2020 Revenue 120 ($4.5M) Expenses 127 ($4.5M) Net assets 112 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 124 ($4.6M) Expenses 130 ($4.6M) Net assets 112 ($1.1M)2022 Revenue 116 ($4.3M) Expenses 118 ($4.2M) Net assets 126 ($1.3M)2023 Revenue 156 ($5.8M) Expenses 157 ($5.6M) Net assets 147 ($1.5M)2024 Revenue 173 ($6.5M) Expenses 175 ($6.3M) Net assets 166 ($1.7M)2025 Revenue 175 ($6.5M) Expenses 182 ($6.5M) Net assets 168 ($1.7M)
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Revenue (175)Expenses (182)Net assets (168)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 2022 to 2023, from $2.0M to $2.9M (+44%).

$1.6M
$2.1M
$1.9M
$2.1M
$2.3M
$2.0M
$2.9M
$2.8M
$2.6M
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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: 2017 87% · 2018 76% · 2019 82% · 2020 73% · 2021 77% · 2022 81% · 2023 83% · 2024 85% · 2025 85%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of OAI Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (16% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,617 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.

$154k
’17
$480k
’18
−$303k
’19
−$52k
’20
−$3k
’21
$134k
’22
$210k
’23
$196k
’24
$17k
’25
1.5
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

Amanda Allen

Executive Director

Board chair

Mollie Dowling

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.

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Listed91010891110108
Joined·+5+0+0+2+3+0+1+4
No longer listed·40211116
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $112k → $1.3M.

6 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 OAI 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.

How concentrated its funding is

OAI Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 78%; 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 OAI Inc.

51%
largest funder
78%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 49% · 2019 67% · 2020 40% · 2021 54% · 2022 82% · 2023 32% — 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

42% of OAI Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

75% of OAI Inc's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

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CA
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DC
FL

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

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Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $812k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

OAI Inc has grown faster than half of the 1,012 employment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin0% · below the median
Months of reserve1.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,012 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 9%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
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.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OAI 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 OAI Inc?
OAI Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,554,536 to it, the largest being CHICAGO COOK WORKFORCE PARTNERSHIP ($3,834,597). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does OAI Inc have?
IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $7,554,536 in grants to OAI Inc, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of OAI Inc?
CHICAGO COOK WORKFORCE PARTNERSHIP is the largest funder on record, with $3,834,597 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like OAI Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 17 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