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WORKWELL INDUSTRIES INC

WORKWELL INDUSTRIES INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $395,572 to it, the largest being FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($75,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$4.3M
Funders on record
20
Grants received
$396k
Net assets
$3.5M
11/20 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Workwell Industries Inc does

Mission

To create jobs for individuals with disabilities, homeless individuals, refugees, and economically challenged individuals in an integrated industrialized environment.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Workwell industries strives to train all employees on a regular basis. It is not uncommon that a person works on several different jobs during a shift. Workwell industries has approximately 8 permanent employees. Approximately 281 individuals who are mission related are served. The majority of expenses for these programs are payroll related. Workwell industries has a department of labor certification that enables payment to certain individuals below minimum wage. Several individuals qualify for this program. The remainder of the individuals are paid at minmum wage or above.

    $2,736,203 spent$3,998,558 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,736,203.

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 ($3.6M) Expenses 100 ($3.6M) Net assets 100 ($550k)2018 Revenue 120 ($4.3M) Expenses 113 ($4.1M) Net assets 144 ($794k)2019 Revenue 115 ($4.1M) Expenses 123 ($4.5M) Net assets 84 ($463k)2020 Revenue 106 ($3.8M) Expenses 106 ($3.8M) Net assets 81 ($444k)2021 Revenue 102 ($3.7M) Expenses 99 ($3.6M) Net assets 101 ($555k)2022 Revenue 120 ($4.3M) Expenses 88 ($3.2M) Net assets 302 ($1.7M)2023 Revenue 103 ($3.7M) Expenses 98 ($3.5M) Net assets 337 ($1.9M)2024 Revenue 104 ($3.8M) Expenses 84 ($3.0M) Net assets 464 ($2.6M)2025 Revenue 119 ($4.3M) Expenses 94 ($3.4M) Net assets 629 ($3.5M)
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Revenue (119)Expenses (94)Net assets (629)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 2024 to 2025, from $3.9M to $4.6M (+19%).

$2.4M
$2.7M
$2.3M
$2.7M
$2.8M
$3.0M
$3.2M
$3.9M
$4.6M
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 13% · 2022 13% · 2023 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

6% of WORKWELL INDUSTRIES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (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. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$16k
’17
$244k
’18
−$331k
’19
−$19k
’20
$111k
’21
$1.1M
’22
$188k
’23
$701k
’24
$905k
’25
7.2
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

Kenya Freeman

President/CEO

Board chair

Thomas Wobbe

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.

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Joined·+1+2+0+1+1+0+1+2
No longer listed·10041004
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $16k → $37k.

3 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 WORKWELL INDUSTRIES 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

WORKWELL INDUSTRIES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

65% 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 WORKWELL INDUSTRIES INC.

19%
largest funder
48%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 45% · 2019 46% · 2020 44% · 2021 24% · 2022 38% · 2023 41% — 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

40% of WORKWELL INDUSTRIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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

85% of WORKWELL INDUSTRIES INC's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.

IL
NY
OH
KY
FL

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

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’22
’23
Kentucky out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $125k 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

WORKWELL INDUSTRIES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,012 employment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin21% · top quartile
Months of reserve7.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · below the median

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

Organizations like WORKWELL INDUSTRIES INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 19%Fundraising 1%

Governance

10
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

KY

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Questions and answers

Who funds WORKWELL INDUSTRIES INC?
WORKWELL INDUSTRIES INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $395,572 to it, the largest being FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($75,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WORKWELL INDUSTRIES INC have?
IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $395,572 in grants to WORKWELL INDUSTRIES INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WORKWELL INDUSTRIES INC?
FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WORKWELL INDUSTRIES INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 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