Florida · Nonprofit
POLICY WORKS INC
POLICY WORKS INC (Florida) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,575 to it, the largest being NATIONAL DISABILITY INSTITUTE INC ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $165k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $64k
- Net assets
- $-21729
What Policy Works Inc does
Mission
To support equality of opportunity, full participation, independent living and economic self-sufficiency for people with disabilities.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
Lights! Camera! Access! (LCA) is a project that Policy Works, Inc. in collaboration with EINSOF Communications, Forward Works Consulting, and Michael Adams Studio, who together serve as the strategic and operations partners. Its primary objectives are to increase employment of people with disabilities in front of, and behind the camera/keyboard; to improve disability protrayals and reduce stigma; and, to integrate access to media with captions and audio descriptions. LCA supports these objectives by offering a biannual six-month web-based series of workshops and professional incubator events available to two cohorts of participants from across the nation. The LCA Collaborative is a collection of multi-dimensional initiatives that weaves and braids established traditional and digital media entities (networks, studios, industry associations, union, production, internet and cable content creators and providors) with authentic disability and diversity leaders, organizations, film festivals, veterans, accelerated high school and college students, recent graduates, and transitioning youth. This combination results in a dynamic disability-inclusive diversity community. LCA Creates…
$97,890 spent$101,786 earned by the program74% of program spendingCamp Networx! is a camp-in-the-box product designed to support self-advocacy, career exploration, and workplace readiness summer camp-style experience for youth, students, and adults with disabilities. The camp program is a series of facilitated activites or camp-wide summits supporting by ensuring peer mentor-led workshop events. The program is designed as pre-employment support for individuals exploring career pathways being served by SVRAs. The program explores storytelling as a connection strategy for youth, sutdents, and adults with disabilities designed to increase confidence and competence in developing social, community and career networks. Participants in the program identify, describe and submit six images to complete their Camp NetWorx! MyCube project. The MyCube is a Camp NetWorx! program deliverable where participants or campers explore, create and present their six-sided MyCube as a storytelling experience in a peer-supported community. The Camp NetWorx! program and its MyCube project are designed to be provided virtually, or on-location supported through Peer Mentoring Works training modules, tools and resources.
$22,893 spent$25,000 earned by the program17% of program spendingCalifornia SWTCIE Project (CSP) is a five-year Rehab Services Administration (RSA) funded Demonstration Innovation Fund (DIF) grant project operated by the California Department of Rehabilitation (CA DOR). Its primary goal is to support the transition to Competitive Integrated Employment (CIE) of individuals with ID/DD who are contemplating, or in Subminimum Wage employment. PolicyWorks (PW) provides training, tools and resources to support the direct provision of Peer Mentoring to program participants at the two Demonstration Model Site locations. This is achieved through the provision of both existing and development of new program supports available through PWs Peer mentoringWorks (PMW) library of training, tools and direct service resources. PolicyWorks is one of the core partners working with CA DOR leadership, State University and Community Continuing Education and Regional Partners to administer the program and achieve project performance objectives.
$6,563 spent$10,886 earned by the program5% of program spendingPeer Mentoring Works (PMW) is a collection of training, tools and direct delivery support resources supporting the provision of peer mentoring to students, youth and adults with disabilities who are jobseekers receiving transition support through State Vocational Rehab Agencies (SVRA).
$4,920 spent4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $132,266.
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 $12k to $223k (+1762%).
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 3% · 2018 9% · 2020 3% · 2021 68%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of POLICY WORKS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $34.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 POLICY WORKS 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
POLICY WORKS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
67% 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 POLICY WORKS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 71% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
POLICY WORKS INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $75 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
POLICY WORKS INC's revenue fell 60% between 2017 and 2023.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,056 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like POLICY WORKS 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds POLICY WORKS INC?
- POLICY WORKS INC (Florida) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,575 to it, the largest being NATIONAL DISABILITY INSTITUTE INC ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does POLICY WORKS INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $63,575 in grants to POLICY WORKS INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of POLICY WORKS INC?
- NATIONAL DISABILITY INSTITUTE INC is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like POLICY WORKS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 6 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