Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PROGRESSIVE WORKSHOP OF ARMSTRONG COUNTY INC
PROGRESSIVE WORKSHOP OF ARMSTRONG COUNTY INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $143,016 to it, the largest being ARMSTRONG COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($40,538). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $143k
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Progressive Workshop of Armstrong County Inc does
Mission
The organization's mission is: (1) to provide training facilities, placement programs and related activities for persons who appear to be able to profit from the habilitation programs of the workshop. (2) to provide extended training for individuals who continue to develop skills, behaviors, and attitudes which assist them in becoming more independent and employable and to provide these services in accordance with principles of "everyday lives" which enables individuals to participate in training and activities as they chose. (3) to conduct business and receive funds in order to accomplish purposes adopted by the corporation.the progressive workshop provides job skill training, rehabilitation services, and adult education services in an effort to develop, improve and enhance personal self-satisfaction and contributions to the community. In addition, the workshop provides job development and job coaching for those individuals who are work-ready, or who have secured jobs within the commu
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization continued to provide job skill training to approximately 126 individuals. During the fiscal year 2025, the organization had 22 individuals start the program and 10 individuals withdraw from services. The organization continued to support individuals placed into competitive employment situations. Others who are working in the community attend the workshop some hours in order to maintain and improve job skills as well as interaction with othersservices offered include: supported employment, transitional work services, pre-vocational (cps) and adult training facility.the adult achievement center (aac) was opened in march of 2017. This program targets individual ranging from 18-30 years old who are not ready to be enrolled in one of our other services offered. In september 2024 a second adult achievement center officially opened in leechburg pa, which targets young adults described above. As of today we have 8 individuals who attend either full-time or part-time.through its pre-vocational services, pwac maintains a full production facility that provides businesses throughout the greater pittsburgh area and beyond with sub-contract services. Pre-vocational training was…
$3,436,842 spent$3,581,002 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,436,842.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2.1M to $2.8M (+35%).
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 10% · 2018 6% · 2019 7% · 2020 4% · 2021 28% · 2022 12% · 2023 4% · 2024 3% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
8% of PROGRESSIVE WORKSHOP OF ARMSTRONG COUNTY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
L Michelle Reefer
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $2k → $27k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 PROGRESSIVE WORKSHOP OF ARMSTRONG COUNTY 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
PROGRESSIVE WORKSHOP OF ARMSTRONG COUNTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
50% 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 PROGRESSIVE WORKSHOP OF ARMSTRONG COUNTY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 88% · 2020 79% · 2021 99% · 2022 62% · 2023 40% — 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
50% of PROGRESSIVE WORKSHOP OF ARMSTRONG COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
71% of PROGRESSIVE WORKSHOP OF ARMSTRONG COUNTY INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $41k 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
PROGRESSIVE WORKSHOP OF ARMSTRONG COUNTY INC has grown faster than half of the 1,012 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,012 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like PROGRESSIVE WORKSHOP OF ARMSTRONG COUNTY INC
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In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PROGRESSIVE WORKSHOP OF ARMSTRONG COUNTY INC?
- PROGRESSIVE WORKSHOP OF ARMSTRONG COUNTY INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $143,016 to it, the largest being ARMSTRONG COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($40,538). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PROGRESSIVE WORKSHOP OF ARMSTRONG COUNTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $143,016 in grants to PROGRESSIVE WORKSHOP OF ARMSTRONG COUNTY INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROGRESSIVE WORKSHOP OF ARMSTRONG COUNTY INC?
- ARMSTRONG COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $40,538 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROGRESSIVE WORKSHOP OF ARMSTRONG COUNTY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 8 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