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National Fund for Workforce Solutions
Washington, DC · EIN 47-5172476. Reported 59 grants totalling $6,636,762 to 26 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For National Fund for Workforce Solutions, the IRS classifies it under employment rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE J20) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 26 distinct organizations, with 14% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 60% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $100,000. Half of what it reported fell between $50,000 and $145,000; the smallest was $10,000 and the largest $350,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fund for Our Economic Future of Northeast Ohio | Cleveland, OH | $936,500 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Centerstate Ceo Foundation Inc | Syracuse, NY | $775,618 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| T R W I B Inc | Pittsburgh, PA | $658,200 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Greater Louisville Workforce Investment Board | Louisville, KY | $559,700 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| United Way Inc Dba United Way of Central & Northeastern Ct | Hartford, CT | $546,500 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Maryland Philanthropy Network Inc | Baltimore, MD | $531,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc | Atlanta, GA | $380,744 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| United Way of Central Iowa | Des Moines, IA | $295,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Workforce Alliance of South Central Kansas Inc | Wichita, KS | $280,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Seattle-King County Workforce Development Council | Seattle, WA | $276,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Hawaii Workforce Funders Collaborative | Kapaau, HI | $200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Edc 413WORKS Inc | Springfield, MA | $176,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Economic Development Council of Western Massachusetts Inc | Springfield, MA | $170,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc | Dallas, TX | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Ucp Seguin of Greater Chicago Foundation | Tinley Park, IL | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Boston Foundation Inc | Boston, MA | $120,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Careerrise Inc | Atlanta, GA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Chicago Community Foundation | Chicago, IL | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Health Collaborative | Cincinnati, OH | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Indianapolis Private Industry Council Inc | Indianapolis, IN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Southwest Alabama Workforce Development Council | Mobile, AL | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The Greater New Orleans Foundation | New Orleans, LA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Newark Alliance Inc | Newark, NJ | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey | Philadelphia, PA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Wilmington Alliance | Wilmington, DE | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Newark Alliance Inc | Newark, NJ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
14 of 26 (54%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Fund for Our Economic Future
TO SUPPORT ACTIVATE EMPLOYERS AND CHANGE SYSTEMS PROGRAMS - Maryland Philanthropy Network
TO SUPPORT THE CHANGE SYSTEMS & EQUIP WORKERS FOR SUCCESS PROGRAMS - Centerstate Ceo Foundation
TO SUPPORT THE ACTIVATE EMPLOYERS, CHANGE SYSTEMS & EQUIP WORKERS FOR SUCCESS PROGRAMS - Kentuckianaworks
TO SUPPORT THE ACTIVATE EMPLOYERS, CHANGE SYSTEMS, & EQUIP WORKERS FOR SUCCESS PROGRAMS - United Way of Central & Ne Connecticut
TO SUPPORT THE ACTIVATE EMPLOYERS & CHANGE SYSTEMS PROGRAMS - United Way of Greater Atlanta
TO SUPPORT THE ACTIVATE EMPLOYERS PROGRAM
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 20 of 26 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 10 | $1,901,362 | $165,372 |
| 2021 | 18 | $2,090,000 | $85,000 |
| 2022 | 10 | $751,400 | $100,000 |
| 2023 | 12 | $1,219,000 | $100,750 |
| 2024 | 9 | $675,000 | $75,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
15% of its giving went to organizations in Ohio. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $100,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Ohio.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from National Fund for Workforce Solutions's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 9 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 1250 Connecticut Avenue Nw 200, Washington, DC, 20036.
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