New York · Nonprofit
WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC
WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $200,000 to it, the largest being THE RALPH C WILSON JR FOUNDATION ($150,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $200k
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Workforce Development Institute Inc does
Mission
Workforce development institute ("wdi") is a statewide organization that works for all new yorkers to succeed in the workforce while earning family sustaining wages. Through programs in education and training, economic development, and workforce support, wdi fills gaps not covered by other organizations with the goal of improving the lives of workers and strengthing new york's workforce.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The workers education and training program provides employment related services to incumbent and dislocated workers across nys.
$7,536,868 spent$1,538,922 earned by the program54% of program spendingThe child care outreach and scholarship program provides financial support to working families earning up to 400% of the federal poverty level who are ineligible for childcare assistance under title 5-c to offset child care costs and allow parents to spend on essential needs that contribute to their family's well-being.
$6,361,148 spentof which $4,604,204 as grants46% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,898,016.
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 $2.8M to $4.2M (+50%).
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% · 2021 9% · 2022 99% · 2023 89% · 2024 87% · 2025 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% 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
Amy Desjardins
Executive director
Board chair
Al Catalano
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $50k → $150k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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: $16k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America). These are real filings, and they are not money WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC raised.
From the IRS filings of WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE 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 INSTITUTE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% 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
25% 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 INSTITUTE 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
WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k 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 INSTITUTE INC has grown faster than half of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE 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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE 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 DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC?
- WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $200,000 to it, the largest being THE RALPH C WILSON JR FOUNDATION ($150,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $200,000 in grants to WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC.
- Who is the largest funder of WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC?
- THE RALPH C WILSON JR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE 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.
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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 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