Illinois · Nonprofit
WESTERN ILLINOIS WORKS INC
WESTERN ILLINOIS WORKS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,448 to it, the largest being GALESBURG COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($18,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $28k
- Net assets
- $-34948
What Western Illinois Works Inc does
Mission
The purpose of this board is to advance, through use of all available resources, the training and employment of citizens of western illinois; to serve the private and public sector by helping maximize benefits from taxes paid; to foster an equal partnership between them.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Workforce innovation and opportunity act (wioa): programs supported by wioa funds are consumer-focused with the intention of helping americans access tools they need to manage their carrers through information and high quality service, and to help u.s. Companies find skilled workers. The wioa program assisted 137 individuals during the fiscal year.
$2,054,761 spentof which $359,392 as grants100% of program spendingTrade adjustment assistance reform act (taa)/trade and global adjustment assistance act (tgaa): programs supported by taa/tgaaa funds are to assist individuals who become unemployed or underemployed as a result of international trade. Taa/tgaaa programs seek to provide u.s. Workers who are adversely affected by trade with the opportunity to obtain the skills, resources, and support they need to become reemployed. The programs assisted zero individuals during the fiscal year.
$8,481 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,063,242.
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 $315k to $507k (+61%).
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 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 99% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% · 2024 100% · 2025 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of WESTERN ILLINOIS WORKS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Blanche Shoup
President/CEO
Board chair
Denise Orris
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $19k → $10k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 WESTERN ILLINOIS WORKS 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
WESTERN ILLINOIS WORKS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% 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
89% 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 WESTERN ILLINOIS WORKS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2021 70% — 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.
Where its funders are
89% of WESTERN ILLINOIS WORKS INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Illinois funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k 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.
Against its field
WESTERN ILLINOIS WORKS INC receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $28k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,012 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like WESTERN ILLINOIS WORKS INC
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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 WESTERN ILLINOIS WORKS INC: 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 WESTERN ILLINOIS WORKS INC?
- WESTERN ILLINOIS WORKS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,448 to it, the largest being GALESBURG COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($18,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WESTERN ILLINOIS WORKS INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $28,448 in grants to WESTERN ILLINOIS WORKS INC.
- Who is the largest funder of WESTERN ILLINOIS WORKS INC?
- GALESBURG COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $18,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WESTERN ILLINOIS WORKS INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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