Kansas · Nonprofit
WORKFORCE ALLIANCE OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS INC
WORKFORCE ALLIANCE OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS INC (Kansas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,872,839 to it, the largest being MIDWEST URBAN STRATEGIES ($1,480,181). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.7M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $392k
What Workforce Alliance of South Central Kansas Inc does
Mission
The mission of the workforce alliance of south central kansas is to develop and lead a flexible, integrated workforce system that identifies and responds to the current and future needs of our region and state.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Workforce innovation and opportunity act and federal/state grant services.
$7,371,647 spentof which $286,372 as grants$60,134 earned by the program99% of program spendingPaces-to upskill and remove barriers for low skilled/low income individuals in manufacturing.
$42,881 spent1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,414,528.
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 $1.8M to $3.6M (+96%).
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 98% · 2018 99% · 2019 99% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% · 2024 99% · 2025 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of WORKFORCE ALLIANCE OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS 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. 4 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
Keith Lawing
Executive director
Board chair
Jeff Longwell
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $90k → $832k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.2M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of the Plains Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money WORKFORCE ALLIANCE OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of WORKFORCE ALLIANCE OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS 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
WORKFORCE ALLIANCE OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 WORKFORCE ALLIANCE OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 71% · 2019 56% · 2020 54% · 2021 29% · 2022 48% · 2023 66% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
50% of WORKFORCE ALLIANCE OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
WORKFORCE ALLIANCE OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS INC draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Kansas, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $150k 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.
Against its field
WORKFORCE ALLIANCE OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,012 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding WORKFORCE ALLIANCE OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $13.8M on record.
- Department of Labor$13.3M
- Environmental Protection Agency$500k
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 WORKFORCE ALLIANCE OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS 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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 WORKFORCE ALLIANCE OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS 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 WORKFORCE ALLIANCE OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS INC?
- WORKFORCE ALLIANCE OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS INC (Kansas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,872,839 to it, the largest being MIDWEST URBAN STRATEGIES ($1,480,181). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WORKFORCE ALLIANCE OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $2,872,839 in grants to WORKFORCE ALLIANCE OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WORKFORCE ALLIANCE OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS INC?
- MIDWEST URBAN STRATEGIES is the largest funder on record, with $1,480,181 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WORKFORCE ALLIANCE OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 10 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