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WORKFORCE INC

WORKFORCE INC (Indiana) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,714,302 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($9,178,875). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$11M
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$12M
Net assets
$13M
6/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 61%
01What it does

What Workforce Inc does

Mission

To strengthen central indiana communities by helping local employers build a better workforce.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Workforce, inc., doing business as recycleforce, advances a triple bottom line of social, environmental, and economic benefit through the operation of an employment social enterprise (ese) that provides paid transitional employment to individuals returning from incarceration while diverting electronic waste from indiana landfills and reintegrating recovered materials into domestic manufacturing supply chains.recycleforce provides immediate employment upon release from incarceration, offering living wages combined with paid, on-the-job training, industry-recognized credentialing, and wraparound supports delivered during paid work hours. Recycleforce's workforce development activities are extended through keys2work, inc., a type I supporting organization of workforce, inc. Keys2work is organized, operated, and controlled by workforce, inc. Exclusively to further workforce, inc.'s exempt purposes. Keys2work operates as a nonprofit alternative staffing employment social enterprise and employs recycleforce participants as they transition from initial employment into higher-wage positions through temporary-to-permanent and direct-hire placements with employer partners.recycleforce and…

    $6,867,644 spent$4,740,030 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,867,644.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.8M) Expenses 100 ($3.8M) Net assets 100 ($584k)2018 Revenue 51 ($1.9M) Expenses 70 ($2.7M) Net assets -28 ($-163923)2019 Revenue 57 ($2.2M) Expenses 54 ($2.1M) Net assets -12 ($-68134)2020 Revenue 75 ($2.8M) Expenses 70 ($2.7M) Net assets 15 ($88k)2021 Revenue 140 ($5.4M) Expenses 100 ($3.8M) Net assets 275 ($1.6M)2022 Revenue 270 ($10M) Expenses 178 ($6.8M) Net assets 873 ($5.1M)2023 Revenue 371 ($14M) Expenses 223 ($8.5M) Net assets 1839 ($11M)2024 Revenue 230 ($8.8M) Expenses 214 ($8.2M) Net assets 1934 ($11M)2025 Revenue 281 ($11M) Expenses 237 ($9.1M) Net assets 2216 ($13M)
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Revenue (281)Expenses (237)Net assets (2216)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $3.4M to $14M (+305%).

$1.6M
$926k
$1.4M
$1.8M
$3.4M
$14M
$19M
$20M
$22M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
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2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 50% · 2018 35% · 2019 8% · 2020 34% · 2021 42% · 2022 36% · 2023 34% · 2024 50% · 2025 46%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

56% of WORKFORCE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 457 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$13k
’17
−$748k
’18
$96k
’19
$157k
’20
$1.5M
’21
$3.5M
’22
$5.6M
’23
$557k
’24
$1.6M
’25
5.7
months of
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.

Board chair

Tim Brown

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed131516161516131414
Joined·+3+2+0+1+4+2+3+2
No longer listed·11023522
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $424k → $8k.

4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 14 of 15 funders by total. 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 INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

78%
largest funder
92%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 59% · 2019 80% · 2020 38% · 2021 88% · 2022 98% · 2023 82% — 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

22% of WORKFORCE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

96% of WORKFORCE INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.

IN
CA
MO

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Indiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $710k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

WORKFORCE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 274 employment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin15% · top quartile
Months of reserve5.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 274 employment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Government funding WORKFORCE INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20.5M on record — $20.5M federal, $14k state.

Federal$20.5M
grants $20.5Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Labor$17.0M
  • Department of Health and Human Services$2.4M
  • Environmental Protection Agency$1.1M
State$14k
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By state
  • MA$13k
  • NJ$757

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 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 Indiana

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 19%Fundraising 5%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

IN

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Keys 2 Work Inc · exempt
  • Recycleforce Building Holding Corporation · exempt

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WORKFORCE 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 INC?
WORKFORCE INC (Indiana) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,714,302 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($9,178,875). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WORKFORCE INC have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $11,714,302 in grants to WORKFORCE INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WORKFORCE INC?
LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $9,178,875 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WORKFORCE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 15 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