Alabama · Nonprofit
WORKSHOPS EMPOWERMENT INC
WORKSHOPS EMPOWERMENT INC (Alabama) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,029,941 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ($5,627,900). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $6.0M
- Net assets
- $4.1M
What Workshops Empowerment Inc does
Mission
Workshops empowerment, inc. Enriches lives by helping people with disabilities and other employment barriers achieve their vocational potential.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Workshops Empowerment Inc. Addresses a full range of vocational services for people who want the opportunity to work and the many benefits that come with having a job - including a sense of identity and belonging, an opportunity to give back to the community and a sense of pride in oneself. Services provided by we, inc. Include evaluations to determine interests and abilities; services that assist high school students with disabilities transition successfully from high school to work; job readiness training both in a classroom setting and hands-on in a workplace; assistance with resumes and interview prep; job placement assistance; job coaching once a person has found employment; and assistance in sustaining employment as challenges arise. We, inc. Also offers ongoing employment for at least 60 individuals each year.
$2,126,457 spent$1,659,025 earned by the program93% of program spendingOur new brand, we made, creates delicious and useful products for sale while also providing invaluable job readiness and small business skills.
$164,458 spent$6,852 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,290,915.
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 $3.6M to $4.1M (+13%).
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: 2021 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
33% of WORKSHOPS EMPOWERMENT INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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
Christy Atkinson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $765k → $819k.
2 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 WORKSHOPS EMPOWERMENT 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
WORKSHOPS EMPOWERMENT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 97%; 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 WORKSHOPS EMPOWERMENT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 100% · 2019 98% · 2020 97% · 2021 93% · 2022 93% · 2023 81% — 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
50% of WORKSHOPS EMPOWERMENT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 35% give in more than one year at all.
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
98% of WORKSHOPS EMPOWERMENT INC's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $147k 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.
Against its field
WORKSHOPS EMPOWERMENT INC is better cushioned than half of the 1,551 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,551 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like WORKSHOPS EMPOWERMENT 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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WORKSHOPS EMPOWERMENT 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 WORKSHOPS EMPOWERMENT INC?
- WORKSHOPS EMPOWERMENT INC (Alabama) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,029,941 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ($5,627,900). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WORKSHOPS EMPOWERMENT INC have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $6,029,941 in grants to WORKSHOPS EMPOWERMENT INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WORKSHOPS EMPOWERMENT INC?
- UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,627,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WORKSHOPS EMPOWERMENT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 20 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