Illinois · Nonprofit
REWORK TRAINING
REWORK TRAINING (Illinois) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,332,911 to it, the largest being DREW FOUNDATION ($3,684,290). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $4.3M
- Net assets
- $16k
What Rework Training does
Mission
Re:work mission is to promote economic equity through a non-traditional education path. We provide the training, placement, and support to create lucrative careers for minorities from underserved communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Our approach - begin with eight weeks of training with a focus on sales skills and thetechnology industry place candidates who successfully complete our training in salesroles provide opportunites for value-added partnerships through volunteerism. Ourempowerment curriculum - in order to give each candidate individual attention, welimit our cohorts to a maximum of 35 candidates. Our goal is for our candidates to exceed sales and company-wide expectations. To empower candidates to do this, wetrain on mindset, sales process, best practices for cold calling, email cadence, andbusiness acumen. We also cover tools like salesforce, yesware, & video conferencing. In 2024, re:work provided workforce development services in the technology sector, assisting individuals in obtaining and advancing tech careers. The organization supported 104 first-time job placements and 48 career replacements for program alumni. Participants entering the program earned an average of 38,947, and those placed in tech roles earned an average starting salary of 74,503, representing a 91% increase in income achieved in less than two months on average. These outcomes demonstrate the organization's effectiveness in…
$936,732 spentof which $194 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $936,732.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2019 to 2020, from $205k to $83k (−59%).
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 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of REWORK TRAINING’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 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
Shelton Banks
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $15k → $1.3M.
7 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 REWORK TRAINING’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
REWORK TRAINING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 83% · 2021 38% · 2022 51% · 2023 97% — 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 REWORK TRAINING's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
REWORK TRAINING draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $592k 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.
Against its field
REWORK TRAINING has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like REWORK TRAINING
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
57% 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 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for REWORK TRAINING: 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 REWORK TRAINING?
- REWORK TRAINING (Illinois) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,332,911 to it, the largest being DREW FOUNDATION ($3,684,290). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does REWORK TRAINING have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $4,332,911 in grants to REWORK TRAINING, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of REWORK TRAINING?
- DREW FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,684,290 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like REWORK TRAINING 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 13 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