New York · Nonprofit
WIB INC DBA Chautauqua Works
WIB INC DBA Chautauqua Works (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $240,732 to it, the largest being THE RALPH C WILSON JR FOUNDATION ($130,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $241k
- Net assets
- $686k
What WIB INC DBA Chautauqua Works does
Mission
To provide oversight, administer, monitor, and provide guidance for the Chautauqua County, NY workforce development system to ensure that skilled workers are available to local employers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
WIOA - Program to provide workforce investment activities that increase the employment, retention and earnings of participants; increase occupational skill attainment by participants which will improve the quality of the workforce, reduce welfare dependency, and enhance the productivity and competitiveness of the local economy.
$1,419,927 spent$1,556,475 earned by the program43% of program spendingTANF Summer Youth - Program to provide full-wage subsidized summer employment to eligible participants.
$1,185,260 spent$1,185,260 earned by the program36% of program spendingTANF Self-sufficiency (County) - Operation of two centers which provide a full array of employment related services to temporary assistance recipients.
$272,553 spent$272,553 earned by the program8% of program spendingW.I.B., Inc. Local County Programs - General programs to provide for the overall operating activities of the Organization.
$263,023 spent$234,742 earned by the program8% of program spendingEcosystem Developer This program is made up of two grants provided by Empire State Development (ESD) administered by the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo and the Ralph Wilson Junior Foundation. Both grants support the project WNY Regional Collaborative Advanced Manufacturing and Technology. The project will enhance the development of the local workforce ecosystem by funding dedicated staff; targeting outreach to trainers, businesses and jobseekers; coordinating with local business/trainers and unions to ensure training curriculum will meet business needs; assessing training gaps and identifying technology demands; establishing and facilitating business commitments to engage trainees through meet-and-greets, job shadowing, internships, targeted job fairs and recruitment events; providing wraparound services for trainees to help eliminate barriers such as transportation and childcare; and providing necessary equipment and supplies for trainees.
$110,483 spent$330,419 earned by the program3% of program spendingMobility Management - Program to assist in implementing Chautauqua County's Transportation Plan and corrdinating projects and meetings necessary to meet the Plan's goal of providing transportation to work and work-training for low income individuals.
$66,356 spent$67,214 earned by the program2% of program spendingTrade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) - Federally funded program designed to assist U.S. workers who have lost or may lose their jobs as a result of foreign trade. The program seeks to provide adversely affected workers with opportunites to obtain skills, credentials, resources, and support necessary to become re-employed.
Research Foundation for Mental Health - Program designed to have a Disability Resource Coordinator (DRC) market the fundamentals of the Ticket to Work program to targeted groups and the local community.
The 8 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,317,602.
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 2022 to 2023, from $618k to $1.0M (+68%).
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 93% · 2018 90% · 2019 93% · 2020 94% · 2021 94% · 2023 95% · 2024 96% · 2025 88%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of WIB INC DBA Chautauqua Works’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. 1 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
Kathleen Geise
Executive Director
Board chair
Paul Stage CFP
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $39k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 WIB INC DBA Chautauqua Works’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
WIB INC DBA Chautauqua Works leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
46% 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 WIB INC DBA Chautauqua Works.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 82% · 2021 100% — broadly stable.
“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
WIB INC DBA Chautauqua Works draws 60% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
WIB INC DBA Chautauqua Works runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,012 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,012 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding WIB INC DBA Chautauqua Works receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $75 on record.
- Department of Justice$75
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 WIB INC DBA Chautauqua Works
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% 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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WIB INC DBA Chautauqua Works?
- WIB INC DBA Chautauqua Works (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $240,732 to it, the largest being THE RALPH C WILSON JR FOUNDATION ($130,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WIB INC DBA Chautauqua Works have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $240,732 in grants to WIB INC DBA Chautauqua Works, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WIB INC DBA Chautauqua Works?
- THE RALPH C WILSON JR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $130,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WIB INC DBA Chautauqua Works find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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