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WORKS IN PROGRESS NYC

WORKS IN PROGRESS NYC (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $4,600 to it, the largest being WALENTAS FOUNDATION LTD ($4,600). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.0M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$5k
Net assets
$13k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Works in Progress NYC does

Mission

To provide on the job work training by accepting candidates from local schools for work to earn educational credits towards their high school degree.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Work training for high school students

    $910,874 spent$1,006,010 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $910,874.

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 ($926k) Expenses 100 ($908k) Net assets 100 ($53k)2018 Revenue 107 ($988k) Expenses 109 ($991k) Net assets 96 ($51k)2019 Revenue 86 ($796k) Expenses 98 ($889k) Net assets -78 ($-41520)2020 Revenue 45 ($418k) Expenses 54 ($494k) Net assets -221 ($-117629)2021 Revenue 97 ($902k) Expenses 79 ($713k) Net assets 134 ($71k)2022 Revenue 119 ($1.1M) Expenses 115 ($1.0M) Net assets 251 ($133k)2023 Revenue 94 ($871k) Expenses 106 ($960k) Net assets 84 ($45k)2024 Revenue 109 ($1.0M) Expenses 114 ($1.0M) Net assets 24 ($13k)
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Revenue (109)Expenses (114)Net assets (24)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 $370k to $503k (+36%).

$456k
$452k
$370k
$503k
$462k
$537k
$424k
$366k
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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
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 17% · 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

0% of WORKS IN PROGRESS NYC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$19k
’17
−$2k
’18
−$92k
’19
−$76k
’20
$189k
’21
$62k
’22
−$89k
’23
−$32k
’24
0.7
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.

Chief executive

Emily Clark

Exec dir

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed55566566
Joined·+0+1+1+0+0+1+0
No longer listed·0100100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of WORKS IN PROGRESS NYC’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.

Where its funders are

100% of WORKS IN PROGRESS NYC's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

WORKS IN PROGRESS NYC receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5k to it.

Operating margin−3% · below the median
Months of reserve0.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like WORKS IN PROGRESS NYC

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 12%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
80%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds WORKS IN PROGRESS NYC?
WORKS IN PROGRESS NYC (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $4,600 to it, the largest being WALENTAS FOUNDATION LTD ($4,600). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WORKS IN PROGRESS NYC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $4,600 in grants to WORKS IN PROGRESS NYC.
Who is the largest funder of WORKS IN PROGRESS NYC?
WALENTAS FOUNDATION LTD is the largest funder on record, with $4,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WORKS IN PROGRESS NYC 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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