Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE WORKFORCE AGENCIES
THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE WORKFORCE AGENCIES (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,000 to it, the largest being BOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.8M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $40k
- Net assets
- $5.6M
What The National Association of State Workforce Agencies does
Mission
The National Association of State Workforce Agencies (naswa) mission is to enhance the state workforce agencies' ability to accomplish their goals, statutory roles and responsibilities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Meetings and operations:naswa's meetings and operations team coordinates 4-7 in-person conferences annually and supports naswa's quarterly and annual meetings with its board of director's and various steering and policy committees. In addition, this functional area manages the partnership with direct employers association to support the national labor exchange (nlx).
$2,579,892 spent$1,957,085 earned by the program96% of program spendingOffice of policy:naswa's office of policy provides technical assistance and support of various national policy committees and workgroups relevant to naswa's membership and the national workforce system. Naswa's national policy committees include administration & finance, communications, employment & training, equal opportunity, technology, unemployment insurance, veterans affairs, wage & hour, and workforce & labor market information. Workgroups include paid family medical leave, state workforce attorney's. Through committee and workgroup membership, naswa members share promising practices and inform federal workforce development policymaking. Naswa policy committees and workgroups are active throughout the year and meet regularly to collaborate on key issues across the national workforce system.
$114,994 spent$3,004,611 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,694,886.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $10.0M to $12M (+22%).
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: 2018 54% · 2019 64% · 2020 69% · 2021 72% · 2022 66% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Scott Sanders
President & CEO
Board chair
Joe Barela
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
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 THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE WORKFORCE AGENCIES’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
THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE WORKFORCE AGENCIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% 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
100% 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 THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE WORKFORCE AGENCIES.
“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
THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE WORKFORCE AGENCIES draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 2 states in all.
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.
Government funding THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE WORKFORCE AGENCIES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.4M on record — $6.0M federal, $450k state.
- Department of Labor$6.0M
- CT$268k
- OR$182k
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 THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE WORKFORCE AGENCIES
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
49% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Center for Employment Security Education Research Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE WORKFORCE AGENCIES: 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 THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE WORKFORCE AGENCIES?
- THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE WORKFORCE AGENCIES (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,000 to it, the largest being BOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE WORKFORCE AGENCIES have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $40,000 in grants to THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE WORKFORCE AGENCIES.
- Who is the largest funder of THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE WORKFORCE AGENCIES?
- BOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE WORKFORCE AGENCIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 2 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