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Rural Education and Workforce Alliance

Rural Education and Workforce Alliance (Kansas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $292,255 to it, the largest being PATTERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($193,655). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$227k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$292k
Net assets
$453k
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 59%
01What it does

What Rural Education and Workforce Alliance does

Mission

The Organization is operating as a nonprofit organization to facilitate and build partnerships between businesses and educational institutions to provide training and access to post-secondary education for individuals located in the 28 counties of southwest Kansas to focus on meeting the workforce needs of the region.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Organization is operating as a nonprofit organization to facilitate and build partnerships between businesses and educational institutions to provide training and access to post-secondary education for individuals located in the 28 counties of southwest Kansas to focus on meeting the workforce needs of the region.

    $158,581 spent$11,171 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $158,581.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($208k) Expenses 100 ($12k) Net assets 100 ($196k)2020 Revenue 165 ($342k) Expenses 1570 ($182k) Net assets 98 ($193k)2021 Revenue 91 ($189k) Expenses 909 ($106k) Net assets 141 ($276k)2022 Revenue 112 ($232k) Expenses 1793 ($208k) Net assets 153 ($300k)2023 Revenue 130 ($271k) Expenses 1308 ($152k) Net assets 213 ($419k)2024 Revenue 109 ($227k) Expenses 1665 ($193k) Net assets 230 ($453k)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (109)Expenses (1665)Net assets (230)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 $310k to $429k (+38%).

$196k
$200k
$283k
$310k
$429k
$473k
201920202021202220232024
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 37% · 2021 40% · 2022 54% · 2023 46% · 2024 55%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

94% of Rural Education and Workforce Alliance’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$196k
’19
$160k
’20
$83k
’21
$24k
’22
$119k
’23
$34k
’24
22
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.

201920202021202220232024
Listed141414141312
Joined·+0+3+2+2+0
No longer listed·03231
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $204k → $10k.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
$24k
funders
2
3
1
1
1

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 Rural Education and Workforce Alliance’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

Rural Education and Workforce Alliance leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

34% 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 Rural Education and Workforce Alliance.

66%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 88% · 2021 40% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

Rural Education and Workforce Alliance draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside Kansas, across 2 states in all.

MO
KS

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

’20
’21
Kansas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $75k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Rural Education and Workforce Alliance holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin15% · above the median
Months of reserve22.3mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Government funding Rural Education and Workforce Alliance receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $59k on record.

Federal$59k
grants $59kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Agriculture$59k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like Rural Education and Workforce Alliance

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 Kansas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 18%Fundraising 0%

Governance

13
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

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Dodge City Ford County Development Corporation · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds Rural Education and Workforce Alliance?
Rural Education and Workforce Alliance (Kansas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $292,255 to it, the largest being PATTERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($193,655). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Rural Education and Workforce Alliance have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $292,255 in grants to Rural Education and Workforce Alliance, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Rural Education and Workforce Alliance?
PATTERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $193,655 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Rural Education and Workforce Alliance find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 3 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