Tennessee · Nonprofit
WORKFORCE ESSENTIALS INC
WORKFORCE ESSENTIALS INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,456,233 to it, the largest being NATIONAL COUNCIL ON THE AGING INC ($2,343,936). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
WORKFORCE ESSENTIALS INC is better cushioned than half of the 911 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 911 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Clarksville-Montgomery County Community Health Foundation Inclocal
- Westmoreland-Fayette Workforce Investment Boardportfolio match
- Sourceamericaportfolio match
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.
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 58% · 2018 56% · 2019 62% · 2020 52% · 2021 64% · 2022 54% · 2023 72% · 2025 73%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
73% of WORKFORCE ESSENTIALS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (15% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $2k → $409k.
From the IRS filings of WORKFORCE ESSENTIALS 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 ESSENTIALS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% 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 ESSENTIALS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 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 ESSENTIALS INC draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Clarksville-Montgomery County Community Health Foundation InclocalTN · funds 34 organizations near you
- Westmoreland-Fayette Workforce Investment Boardportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sourceamericaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiativeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Skillup Coalitionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Masshire Hampden County Workforce Board Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jobs for the Future Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Workers Labportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Willamette Workforce Partnershipportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Careerworks Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Redfportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Oneten Coalition Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like WORKFORCE ESSENTIALS INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WORKFORCE ESSENTIALS 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds WORKFORCE ESSENTIALS INC?
- WORKFORCE ESSENTIALS INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,456,233 to it, the largest being NATIONAL COUNCIL ON THE AGING INC ($2,343,936). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WORKFORCE ESSENTIALS INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $3,456,233 in grants to WORKFORCE ESSENTIALS INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WORKFORCE ESSENTIALS INC?
- NATIONAL COUNCIL ON THE AGING INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,343,936 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WORKFORCE ESSENTIALS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 5funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing