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WORKFORCE RESOURCE INC

WORKFORCE RESOURCE INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,429,106 to it, the largest being CWI WORKS INC ($3,446,707). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$9.0M
Funders on record
19
Grants received
$4.4M
Net assets
$3.3M
8/19 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%
01What it does

What Workforce Resource Inc does

Mission

The mission of workforce resource, inc. Is to empower people through employment.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Wisconsin works (w-2) programs: workforce resource, inc. Is contracted with the state of wisconsin department of children and families to operate wisconsin works (w-2) programs in ashland, barron, bayfield, burnett, chippewa, clark, douglas, dunn, eau claire, iron, pierce, polk, rusk, st. Croix, sawyer, and washburn counties.the goal of wisconsin works (w-2) is to provide necessary and appropriate services to prepare individuals to work, and to obtain and maintain viable, self-sustaining employment, which will promote economic growth. W-2 is designed to ensure that everyone in wisconsin shares in our economic opportunities.wisconsin works (w-2) is based on work participation and personal responsibility. The program provides employment preparation services, cash management and cash assistance to eligible families.workforce resource, inc. Assisted 585 individual clients during the fiscal year. 100 individuals were assisted into fulltime employment.

    $3,967,440 spentof which $1,173,868 as grants
    44% of program spending
  2. Other programs:the independent living program provides services to youth who are aging out of foster care. The program was awarded region 6 in 2024 - now have region 6 & region 7fast forward grants focus on industry training and basic job skills.

    $1,577,288 spentof which $189,852 as grants$14,885 earned by the program
    18% of program spending
  3. Food share employment and training (fset):the fset program is an employment and training program operated as part of the federal supplemental nutrition assistance program (snap), which is known as foodshare (fs) in wisconsin. Both fs and its fset component are administered by the wisconsin department of health services (dhs).according to the federal food and nutrition act of 2008, the purpose of fset is to provide fs members with opportunities to gain skills, training and experience needed to improve employment prospects and reduce reliance on fs benefits. The program also offers fs members a way to meet the work requirements stipulated in the food and nutrition act of 2008.the goal of fset is to provide fs members the assistance and support they need to obtain and maintain competitive employment. The objective of fset is to draw upon the strengths, needs and preferences of individual job seekers by offering an array of employment and training services intended to facilitate an efficient use of resources to assist fset volunteers to move promptly into unsubsidized employment. In addition to employment and training services, the fset program offers assistance to fs members while…

    $1,452,231 spentof which $185,776 as grants
    16% of program spending
  4. Transitional jobs: working with individuals who have child support to find them employment through job skills and stipends to encourage employment to continue their support.

    $758,931 spentof which $333,643 as grants
    8% of program spending
  5. Wioa adult services:workforce resource, inc. Served 122 adults. Services to these individuals included assessment, career planning, pre-employment skills development, basic skill education, work experience, job readiness training, occupational skills training, on-the-job training, job search preparation and job placement. During the program year 77% of the individuals who exited were employed during the second quarter after exiting, and 71.8% retained that employment in the fourth quarter after exiting. The three-month mean-earnings for all adults was $7,000. Workforce resource, inc. Exceeded the goal for the credential performance measure. This program concluded on sept 30th 2025 due to mutual agreement with the wioa board

    $536,333 spentof which $205,084 as grants
    6% of program spending
  6. Wioa dislocated workers services:a total of 119 dislocated workers were served under dislocated worker and rapid response grants. During the program year 78.9% of the participants who exited the program were working during the second quarter after exiting and 83.5% retained their employment during the fourth quarter after exiting. Services included assessment, career planning, occupational skills training, on-the-job training, basic skills development, job search preparation and job placement. The three-month mean earnings for all wioa dislocated workers was $10,082. This program concluded on sept 30th 2025 due to mutual agreement with the wioa board.

    $419,464 spentof which $133,107 as grants
    5% of program spending
  7. A total of 127 youth between 14 and 24 years of age were served during the 2023-2024 program year. Services included assessment, career planning, pre-employment skill development, work experience, basic skills education, alternative education, school-to-work transition services, occupational skills training, job readiness training, job search preparation and job placement. Youth are eligible to participate in work experience at various public and private worksites where they mastered both work maturity and job specific skills. Workforce resource, inc. Exceeded four youth performance measures in 2023-2024: placement in employment or education, fourth quarter retention and median earnings. The youth program was completed in april 2024 with final billing in may 2024. This program concluded on sept 30th 2025 due to mutual agreement with the wioa board.

    $279,077 spentof which $36,510 as grants
    3% of program spending
  8. Fee program: they have several programs they work with - dvr, ccs, ticket to work, learn 2 earn, iris. This program works with individuals with disabilities to find them employment through job skills training and classes.

  9. Innovation grant: working with local businesses and high schools to promote skills in the manufacturing industry through enrollment in trade schools. Program ended june 2025.

The 9 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,990,764.

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 ($8.5M) Expenses 100 ($8.5M) Net assets 100 ($2.0M)2018 Revenue 93 ($7.9M) Expenses 88 ($7.4M) Net assets 123 ($2.4M)2019 Revenue 95 ($8.1M) Expenses 87 ($7.4M) Net assets 156 ($3.1M)2020 Revenue 102 ($8.7M) Expenses 92 ($7.8M) Net assets 202 ($4.0M)2021 Revenue 86 ($7.3M) Expenses 81 ($6.9M) Net assets 227 ($4.5M)2022 Revenue 93 ($8.0M) Expenses 94 ($8.0M) Net assets 223 ($4.4M)2023 Revenue 103 ($8.8M) Expenses 110 ($9.3M) Net assets 196 ($3.9M)2024 Revenue 127 ($11M) Expenses 128 ($11M) Net assets 191 ($3.8M)2025 Revenue 105 ($9.0M) Expenses 115 ($9.8M) Net assets 167 ($3.3M)
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Revenue (105)Expenses (115)Net assets (167)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 2019 to 2020, from $3.8M to $4.7M (+24%).

$2.7M
$3.2M
$3.8M
$4.7M
$5.0M
$5.0M
$5.4M
$4.9M
$4.1M
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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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 94% · 2018 94% · 2019 93% · 2020 91% · 2021 91% · 2022 91% · 2023 98% · 2024 98% · 2025 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of WORKFORCE RESOURCE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (16% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,617 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$16k
’17
$448k
’18
$663k
’19
$924k
’20
$488k
’21
−$73k
’22
−$538k
’23
−$106k
’24
−$834k
’25
1.7
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

Brad Gringras

Chair (termed 12/2024)

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed19111210129999
Joined·+2+3+0+4+1+0+0+2
No longer listed·102224002
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $85k → $746k.

4 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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: $6.2M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest West Central Wisconsin Workforce Development Board Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money WORKFORCE RESOURCE INC raised.

From the IRS filings of WORKFORCE RESOURCE 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 RESOURCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

97% 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 RESOURCE INC.

78%
largest funder
91%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 82% · 2019 88% · 2020 37% · 2021 81% · 2022 90% · 2023 85% — diversifying over time.

“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

27% of WORKFORCE RESOURCE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% give in more than one year at all.

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

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 RESOURCE INC draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 6 states in all.

MN
IL
WI
OH
MD
TX

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

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Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

WORKFORCE RESOURCE INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−9% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,012 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding WORKFORCE RESOURCE INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.3M on record.

Federal$2.3M
grants $2.3Mcontracts $0
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25
Top agencies
  • Department of Labor$2.3M

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 7%Fundraising 1%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

WI

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Questions and answers

Who funds WORKFORCE RESOURCE INC?
WORKFORCE RESOURCE INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,429,106 to it, the largest being CWI WORKS INC ($3,446,707). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WORKFORCE RESOURCE INC have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $4,429,106 in grants to WORKFORCE RESOURCE INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WORKFORCE RESOURCE INC?
CWI WORKS INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,446,707 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WORKFORCE RESOURCE 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.

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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 19 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