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WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC
WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $393,056 to it, the largest being NORTHWEST WISCONSIN WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARD INC ($297,902). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.3M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $393k
- Net assets
- $214k
What Workforce Development Board of South Central Wisconsin Inc does
Mission
Workforce development board of south central wisconsin, inc.'s mission is to build public and private partnerships that support innovation and excellence in workforce development.in furtherance of its mission the organization dedicates time, talent and financial resources to: promoting economic opportunities for the workforce; targeting disadvantaged and dislocated workers; allocating resources equitably throughout the region; responding to local needs; supporting a customer driven system; maintaining fiscal integrity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Apprenticeship building america 2 grant to support the expansion of registered apprenticeship opportunities in the healcare sector and increase the number of registered apprentices in wiscconsin. The grant supports the training of individuals in four healthcare occupations through paid instruction, supportive services, and curriculum development. The number served for fiscal year 2025 under this program is 185. The abc pathways project aims to raise awareness and create opportunities for biohealth careers in underrepresented communities. It will focus on developing stackable and tailored credentials and promoting work-based learning, such as apprenticeships, to meet industry demand.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
The organization's special projects that focus on specific objectives and/or target populations. These programs include the windows to work program, which provides case management services to help participants search for and secure employment to ensure successful reintegration into the community after release. Other special projects also include local youth apprenticeship, united way carpentry training, pathways 4, quest and wai participants. The organization served 1835 participants through special projects during the year.
$1,785,253 spentof which $485,529 as grants37% of program spendingWorkforce innovation and opportunity act (wioa) adult and dislocated workers programs seek to improve employment, retention, and earnings of wioa participants and increase their educational and occupational skill attainment, thereby improving the quality of the workforce, reducing welfare dependency, and enhancing national productivity and competitiveness. In fiscal year 2025 this program served 699 participants.
$1,738,039 spentof which $1,614,304 as grants$10,621 earned by the program36% of program spendingYouth activities seek to increase the attainment of basic skills, work readiness, or occupational skills, and secondary diplomas or other credentials. A person is eligible to receive services under youth activities if they are between the ages of fourteen and twenty-one at the time of enrollment and demonstrate at least one of the following barriers to employment: deficient in basic literacy skills, a school dropout, homeless, a runaway, a foster child, pregnant or parenting, offender, or an individual who requires additional assistance to complete an educational program or to secure and hold employment. The organization served approximately 245 participants in youth activities during the year.
$693,663 spentof which $343,102 as grants15% of program spendingIndependent living program seeks to engage a network of service resources to meet the transition needs of young people exiting foster care and transitioing into adult living. The supports and services are designed to help eligible youth complete high school, transition to post secondary education, or to obtain and maintain employment and basic needs. The orgaization served 90 young adults in the region during the program year.
$548,226 spentof which $1,341,675 as grants12% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,765,181.
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 $700k to $924k (+32%).
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 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 98% · 2024 99% · 2025 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN 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. 2 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
Seth Lentz
CEO/executive director
Board chair
Todd Kearney
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $47k → $131k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN 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 DEVELOPMENT BOARD OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% 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 WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 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
100% of WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $95k 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
WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,012 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.0M on record.
- Department of Labor$4.0M
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 DEVELOPMENT BOARD OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN 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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% 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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC?
- WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $393,056 to it, the largest being NORTHWEST WISCONSIN WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARD INC ($297,902). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $393,056 in grants to WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC?
- NORTHWEST WISCONSIN WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARD INC is the largest funder on record, with $297,902 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 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