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Worksystems Inc

Worksystems Inc (Oregon) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,567,372 to it, the largest being JPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION ($1,450,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$29M
Funders on record
14
Grants received
$3.6M
Net assets
$4.9M
10/14 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Worksystems Inc does

Mission

The mission of the organization is to coordinate a regional workforce system that supports individual prosperity and business competitiveness.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Dislocated worker - worksystems offers an array of services for workers facing loss of jobs. These include pre-layoff services, post layoff services and rapid response services to assist those affected by major plant closures or layoffs.youth - worksystems, inc. Invests in an array of organizations to provide education and training services to youth ages 14-21. Our investments help prepare young people for successful transition to post-secondary education and employment with career potential. Investments are focused on low-income youth, ages 14-24, who are school dropouts, basic academic skills deficient, homeless or runaway, pregnant or parenting, offenders, and/or in need of assistance to complete an educational program or to secure and retain employment.adult - worksystems offers a range of services and information to adults seeking employment, including skill development, work preparedness training, and job search assistance. This program also seeks to produce a skilled workforce that supports regional business competitiveness.approximately 50 smaller but similar programs, all related to training, improving job skills and marketability for individuals.

    $26,382,221 spentof which $17,509,726 as grants$678,190 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $26,382,221.

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 ($24M) Expenses 100 ($24M) Net assets 100 ($685k)2018 Revenue 109 ($26M) Expenses 109 ($26M) Net assets 143 ($980k)2019 Revenue 115 ($28M) Expenses 112 ($27M) Net assets 286 ($2.0M)2020 Revenue 95 ($23M) Expenses 95 ($23M) Net assets 300 ($2.1M)2021 Revenue 104 ($25M) Expenses 98 ($24M) Net assets 533 ($3.7M)2022 Revenue 103 ($25M) Expenses 103 ($25M) Net assets 569 ($3.9M)2023 Revenue 126 ($31M) Expenses 120 ($29M) Net assets 797 ($5.5M)2024 Revenue 133 ($32M) Expenses 136 ($33M) Net assets 719 ($4.9M)2025 Revenue 119 ($29M) Expenses 120 ($29M) Net assets 717 ($4.9M)
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Revenue (119)Expenses (120)Net assets (717)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 $8.6M to $15M (+77%).

$7.1M
$6.9M
$7.7M
$6.5M
$8.6M
$15M
$14M
$11M
$15M
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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 96% · 2018 96% · 2019 95% · 2020 95% · 2021 93% · 2022 97% · 2023 98% · 2024 97% · 2025 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of Worksystems Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (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.

$181k
’17
$295k
’18
$897k
’19
$97k
’20
$1.6M
’21
$242k
’22
$1.6M
’23
−$536k
’24
−$16k
’25
3.0
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

James Paulson

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed141616161718201821
Joined·+2+1+0+2+3+3+5+5
No longer listed·01012172
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $555k → $323k.

4 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 Worksystems 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

Worksystems Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

54% 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 Worksystems Inc.

41%
largest funder
60%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 50% · 2019 46% · 2020 38% · 2021 72% · 2022 58% · 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

33% of Worksystems Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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

Worksystems Inc draws 65% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 4 states in all.

WA
NY
MA
OR

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

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Oregon out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

Worksystems Inc is better cushioned than half of the 274 employment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−0% · below the median
Months of reserve3.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · bottom quartile

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

Government funding Worksystems Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $105.5M on record — $15.6M federal, $89.9M state.

Federal$15.6M
grants $15.6Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$9.3M
  • Department of Labor$5.3M
  • Department of Energy$1.0M
State$89.9M
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Top programs
  • OTHER DISTRIBUTIONS TO SUBRECIPIENTS$75.4M
  • DISTRIBUTION TO CONTRACT SVC PROVIDER$10.2M
  • DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$1.7M
  • PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$1.3M
  • OTHER DISTRIBUTION TO TAXABLE SUBRECIP$766k
  • DISTRIBUTION TO COMM COLLEGE DISTRICTS$200k

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 Worksystems 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 Oregon

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 9%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
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

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Worksystems 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 Worksystems Inc?
Worksystems Inc (Oregon) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,567,372 to it, the largest being JPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION ($1,450,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Worksystems Inc have?
IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $3,567,372 in grants to Worksystems Inc, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Worksystems Inc?
JPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,450,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Worksystems Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 14 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