Michigan · Nonprofit
STRATEGIC WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS
STRATEGIC WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $500,000 to it, the largest being DOUGLAS & MARIA DEVOS FOUNDATION ($400,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $164k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $500k
- Net assets
- $226k
What Strategic Workforce Solutions does
Mission
To coordinate community and government interaction, facilitate strategic planning, provide job training, and implement workforce innovation and development programs. The corporation shall cooperate with city and county officials and other organizations in developing and sustaining workforce development and shall coordinate with the area community services employment and training council (acset), an intergovernmental body dedicated to workforce improvement. Its further purpose shall be to cooperate with acset and the west michigan works workforce development board to facilitate plans for delivery of services, to attract public and private investment, apply for grants, to aid the unemployed and reduce the societal costs of unemployment and to assist with career development and job placement.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Hirereach academy: a five-month virtual academy that equips organizations with the tools and knowledge needed to implement evidence-based selection (ebs) into their talent selection process. During the current fiscal year the organization launched its first-ever private academy with kentwood public schools as well as developed updated marketing materials including case studies and a white paper to share with local and national partners. The organization also connected with national partners to discuss and promote hirereach as a skills-based hiring solution. Sws provided career coach training and subsequent support to the workforce investment board of tulare county, california.
$138,311 spent$14,369 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $138,311.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $82k to $373k (+353%).
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.
91% of STRATEGIC WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (54% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of STRATEGIC WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS’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
STRATEGIC WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% 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
“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
100% of STRATEGIC WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
STRATEGIC WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,448 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,448 employment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like STRATEGIC WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Area Community Services Employment & Training Council (West Michigan Works) · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for STRATEGIC WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS: 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 STRATEGIC WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS?
- STRATEGIC WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $500,000 to it, the largest being DOUGLAS & MARIA DEVOS FOUNDATION ($400,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STRATEGIC WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $500,000 in grants to STRATEGIC WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STRATEGIC WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS?
- DOUGLAS & MARIA DEVOS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STRATEGIC WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2022–2025), 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