Grants for employment agencies and job training programs

Name: Top 25 grants made to employment agencies and job training organizations
Creator: Cause IQ
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1,137 employment agencies and job training organizations received at least $154.7 million in grants for the most recent fiscal year. This includes 1,254 grants made from 888 grantmaking organizations, with a median grant amount of $2,000. Of these 888 foundations, 86% made just a single grant to employment agencies, and 3% made grants to four or more employment agencies. This analysis is based on grantmakers that e-file their Form 990s, and likely is an undercount of grants.

$154,706,557

Total grant dollars given to employment agencies and job training programs

1,254

Number of grants made annually to employment agencies and job training programs

888

Number of grantmakers funding employment agencies and job training programs

$2,000

Median grant size to employment agencies and job training programs

Foundations that support employment agencies and job training organizations

Out of all grants made to employment agencies and job training programs, 71% came from small foundations with less than $10 million in assets. The top 10 grantmakers accounted for 79% of the dollar-value of grants to employment agencies. Foundations funding employment agencies also made grants to youth development programs, homeless shelters, food banks, job training programs, and educational service providers.

Foundation size

Foundation size	Number of grantmakers
Small	636
Medium	120
Large	131

Small foundations have <$10M in assets. Medium foundations have $10M to $50M in assets. Large foundations have >$50M in assets.

Foundation type

Foundation type	Number of grantmakers
Community	40
Private	653
Corporate	69
Other	126

Grants made

Grants made to employment agencies	Number of grantmakers
1	767
2-3	94
4-10	21
11+	6

Top 10 foundations supporting employment agencies and job training organizations

Grantmaker	State	Geographic focus	Percent of grant dollars to employment agencies	Number of grants made to employment agencies	Median grant size
JP Morgan Chase Foundation	NY	National	0.0%	53	$250
Seattle Foundation	WA	State	0.1%	38	$1,000
Charity Partners Foundation	MA	National	1.9%	27	$119
Baird Foundation	WI	National	0.5%	19	$812
Synchrony Foundation	CT	National	0.2%	15	$520
Abbvie Foundation	IL	National	0.0%	12	$112
The Boston Foundation (TBF)	MA	Metro	1.7%	9	$5,000
Shell Oil Company Foundation	TX	National	0.1%	9	$750
Salesforce Com Foundation	CA	National	0.0%	9	$100
Community Foundation of Greater Des Moines	IA	State	0.0%	7	$4,050

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Employment agencies and job training organizations grantees

Employment agencies and job training programs with more than $5 million in total revenues received 70% of all grant dollars. These larger organizations accounted for 28% of all employment agencies.

Grant amounts

Size of grant	Number of grants
<$10k	1,230
$10k-$25k	0
$25k-$100k	0
$100k+	24

Grant amount by grantee size

Grantee annual revenue	Median grant size
<$100k	$1,000
$100k-$500k	$1,708
$500k-$1M	$2,000
$1M-$5M	$1,500
>$5M	$2,000

Grantee states

State of grantee	Number of grants
California	165
New York	135
Washington	91
Massachusetts	78
Other	785

Grantee metros

Metro area of grantee	Number of grants
New York City	119
Seattle	86
Boston	71
Chicago	65
Other	871

Top 25 grants made to employment agencies and job training programs

Grantee	Grant size	Purpose	Grantmaker
The Shirley Ware Education Center	$32,500,000	Project Support	Kaiser Permanente
Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO)	$29,500,000	To Provide Covid-19 Support	Blue Meridian Partners
Philadelphia Youth Network	$8,088,633	Job-Training	Philadelphia Works
Clarkson Regional Health Services	$8,000,000	General Support	Nebraska Medicine
Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO)	$6,000,000	To Support Ceo'S Current Strategic Plan	The Edna Mcconnell Clark Foundation
Motivation Education and Training (MET)	$5,906,444	Recruitment, Training, and Job Placement of Seniors	Senior Service America (SSAI)
The Louisville Urban League	$5,008,000	Support Construction and Operation of the Sports and Learning Complex To Support and Assist African Americans and Other Minority Groups To Attain Social and Economic Equality and Stability	Norton Healthcare
Jobs for the Future (JFF)	$4,800,000	Postsecondary Success	Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Impact Services Corporation	$4,192,072	Job-Training	Philadelphia Works
Year Up	$4,000,000	To Support Scaling Plan	Blue Meridian Partners
New England Carpenters Training Fund (NECTF)	$4,000,000	Support for Training.	North Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters
Eastern North Philadelphia Workforce Development Corporation	$3,708,683	Job-Training	Philadelphia Works
Jobs for the Future (JFF)	$3,616,500	Project Support	Tides Foundation
Year Up	$3,439,750	Operating Support/annual Fund	The Boston Foundation (TBF)
The Workplace	$3,340,459	Job Training and Placement	Metro North Workforce Board
Year Up	$3,110,600	Daf - Education	Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston
Jewish Vocational Service Boston	$3,082,804	Employment	Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston
Career Path Services	$3,041,753	Employment and Training	Spokane Workforce Council
Private Industry Council of Westmoreland Fayette (PIC)	$2,928,596	Job Training	Westmoreland-Fayette Workforce Investment Board
Career Resources	$2,890,198	Universal Access To Comprehensive Employment Services Through Various One Stop Centers Set Up in Southwest Connecticut	The Workplace
Jfflabs	$2,752,643	Employment	New Venture Fund
Jfflabs	$2,752,643	Employment	New Venture Fund
Year Up	$2,700,000	Education	Fidelity Non-Profit Management Foundation
Central Susquehanna Opportunities	$2,587,453	Job Training	Central Pennsylvania Workforce Development Corporation (CPWDC)
Taller San Jose Hope Builders	$5,000	General & Unrestricted	The Bernice Heffernan Family Foundation

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Methodology: To determine grants and grantees, Cause IQ analyzes electronically-filed Form 990, Form 990-EZ, and Form 990-PF financial disclosure documents, matching grantees to specific organizations using EINs and fuzzy matching logic. The "Employment agencies and job training programs" category for this page is determined by the "J20: Employment Procurement Assistance and Job Training" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.