New York · Nonprofit
WORK FOR AMERICA INC
WORK FOR AMERICA INC (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,719,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,089,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $615k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $324k
What Work for America Inc does
Mission
Work for america, inc. Was formed to educate the public about the importance of public service careers at the state and local levels and to lessen the burdens of government by engaging in related nationwide efforts to encourage the public to seek such careers.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Work for america, inc. Focuses on lessening government burdens and educating the public about the importance of public sector jobs and the critical services they deliver, thereby spurring increased interest in, applications for, and candidates into state and local government roles. Theorganization hopes to further increase funding, visibility, and support for programs in service of its mission, and it will also strive to assist in improving job quality for state and local government employees.programmatic activities are related to connecting job seekers with available state and local jobs and developing new, localized programs to test interventions and demonstrate the strategies that work, then scaling these solutions.communications activities related to the corporation's charitable and educational purposes include promoting its programmatic activities by launching targeted campaigns designed to mobilize americans, change cultural narratives, and support recruitment and hiring efforts -- all with the end goal of encouraging the public toward careers in public service.research activities are aimed at collecting data to inform solutions to filling public sector vacancies and to…
$212,938 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $212,938.
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
Caitlin Lewis
Executive director
Board chair
Kristen Titus
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 WORK FOR AMERICA 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
WORK FOR AMERICA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 97%; 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 WORK FOR AMERICA INC.
“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
66% of WORK FOR AMERICA 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 $580k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 2 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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.
Organizations like WORK FOR AMERICA 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WORK FOR AMERICA 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 WORK FOR AMERICA INC?
- WORK FOR AMERICA INC (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,719,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,089,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WORK FOR AMERICA INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $1,719,000 in grants to WORK FOR AMERICA INC.
- Who is the largest funder of WORK FOR AMERICA INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,089,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WORK FOR AMERICA INC 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), 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