Funding search · EIN 233048942 · Philadelphia, PA

Philadelphia Works

Name: Philadelphia Works grants, 2021–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.

377
grants reported: $220.5M
total given: 2021–2024
filing years: $93,485
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2021–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

training

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Where the money goes

Career center and EARN operations for Philadelphia adult jobseekers
Out-of-school youth employment programs and youth workforce contractors
Occupational training for immigrant and Latino jobseekers in Philadelphia
Sector training: healthcare, energy, construction trades, CDL trucking
Employer and university training partnerships, plus small evaluation contracts

Typical grant

Median payment is $93,485, with the middle half between $26,250 and $318,416. The money is extremely top-heavy: six providers running citywide career center, youth, and neighborhood service contracts took over $40 million in 2024 alone, led by JEVS at $12.7 million, while short training vendors, employers doing on-the-job training, and single-course providers sit under $70,000. With 377 payments to 170 recipients across four years, the same operators recur annually, and awards look like renewals of ongoing contracts rather than one-time gifts.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

“JOB- TRAINING”
“PWDC”
“TRAINING & TESTING”
“ACADEMY”
“CDL”

Positioning adjacent work

Attach to a funded operator like JEVS, Impact Services, or Congreso rather than approaching as a standalone researcher.
Frame work as training delivery or participant outcomes, not study; every payment on file is coded JOB- TRAINING.
University-based asks land between $175,000 and $420,000; evaluation-style work sits near Mathematica's $31,419.
Emphasize Philadelphia residents, out-of-school youth, returning citizens, or immigrant jobseekers, the populations their largest contracts serve.

Worth knowing: This is the city's workforce board moving public workforce dollars through procured contracts, so giving follows solicitations and existing provider relationships, not discretionary philanthropy. Philadelphia recipients take 316 of 377 payments, and the few out-of-state names (Educational Data Systems in Michigan, Eckerd Connects in Florida) are national workforce contractors serving Philadelphia, not evidence of geographic openness.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Jevs Human Services4 grants · $32.9M
Educational Data Systems4 grants · $31.3M
Impact Services Corporation4 grants · $22.5M
Eckerd Connects4 grants · $20.4M
Eastern North Pwdc4 grants · $20.1M
Philadelphia Youth Network3 grants · $19.1M
Congreso De Latinos4 grants · $10.7M
Youthbuild Philadelphia Charter School4 grants · $4.8M
University City District4 grants · $3.6M
Philadelphia Area Labor Management Committee3 grants · $2.3M

Giving over time

$47.8M

2021

$51.7M

2022

$59.7M

2023

$61.3M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 377 grants.

$12.7M
Jevs Human Services · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Job- training
$8.5M
Educational Data Systems · Dearborn, MI · 2023
Job- training
$8.4M
Educational Data Systems · Dearborn, MI · 2024
Job- training
$8.4M
Jevs Human Services · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Job- training
$7.3M
Educational Data Systems · Dearborn, MI · 2021
Job-training
$7.3M
Philadelphia Youth Network · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Job- training
$7.0M
Educational Data Systems · Dearborn, MI · 2022
Job- training
$6.4M
Impact Services Corporation · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Job- training
$6.2M
Philadelphia Youth Network · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
Job-training
$6.1M
Impact Services Corporation · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Job- training
$6.0M
Jevs Human Services · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
Job-training
$5.9M
Jevs Human Services · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Job- training
$5.9M
Eckerd Connects · Clearwater, FL · 2024
Job- training
$5.6M
Philadelphia Youth Network · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Job- training
$5.5M
Eastern North Pwdc · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Job- training
$5.5M
Eastern North Pwdc · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Job- training
$5.4M
Eckerd Connects · Clearwater, FL · 2023
Job- training
$5.3M
Impact Services Corporation · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Job- training
$4.7M
Eastern North Pwdc · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Job- training
$4.7M
Impact Services Corporation · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
Job-training
$4.7M
Eckerd Connects · Clearwater, FL · 2022
Job- training
$4.5M
Eckerd Connects · Clearwater, FL · 2021
Job-training
$4.4M
Eastern North Pwdc · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
Job-training
$3.0M
Congreso De Latinos · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Job- training
$3.0M
Congreso De Latinos · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Job- training
$2.8M
Congreso De Latinos · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Job- training
$1.9M
Congreso De Latinos · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
Job-training
$1.6M
University City District · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Job- training
$1.3M
Philadelphia Energy Authority · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Job- training
$1.3M
University City District · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Job- training
$1.2M
Youthbuild Philadelphia Charter School · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
Job-training
$1.2M
Youthbuild Philadelphia Charter School · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Job- training
$1.2M
Youthbuild Philadelphia Charter School · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Job- training
$1.2M
Youthbuild Philadelphia Charter School · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Job- training
$1.1M
District 1199c Training · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
Job-training
$953,267
Philadelphia Area Labor Management Committee · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Job- training
$900,471
Philadelphia Area Labor Management Committee · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Job- training
$853,249
Powercorpsphl · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Job- training
$729,970
City of Philadelphia- Rebuild · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
Job-training
$726,484
Foundations · Mount Laurel, NJ · 2024
Job- training
$629,188
New Options More Opportunities · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
Job-training
$586,101
District 1199c Training · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Job- training
$567,758
New Options More Opportunities · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Job- training
$558,859
Temple University - Center for Community Partnerships · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Job- training
$551,038
Philadelphia Academies · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Job- training
$550,000
Community Integrated Services · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Job- training
$517,874
Philadelphia Energy Authority · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Job- training
$515,503
Community Integrated Services · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Job- training
$506,073
Community Integrated Services · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Job- training
$500,000
Powercorpsphl · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Job- training
$500,000
Educationworks · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
Job-training
$487,993
Drexel University - Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Job- training
$482,360
New Options More Opportunities · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Job- training
$479,600
Welcoming Center for New Pennsylvanians · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Job- training
$476,405
Full Circle Computing · Exton, PA · 2024
Job- training
$472,454
Welcoming Center for New Pennsylvanians · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Job- training
$469,923
Foundations · Mount Laurel, NJ · 2023
Job- training
$468,314
Welcoming Center for New Pennsylvanians · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Job- training
$467,458
Philadelphia Area Labor Management Committee · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Job- training
$458,610
District 1199c Training · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Job- training
$450,587
Welcoming Center · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
Job-training
$447,269
Federation of Neighborhood Centers · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Job- training
$443,647
Jobworks Education & Training Systems (Jets) · Fort Wayne, IN · 2022
Job- training
$435,724
University City District · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Job- training
$431,685
Federation of Neighborhood Centers · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Job- training
$419,873
New Options More Opportunities · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Job- training
$417,765
Drexel University - Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Job- training
$414,819
Educationworks · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Job- training
$411,618
Drexel University - Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Job- training
$409,131
Center for Employment Opportunities · New York, NY · 2024
Job- training
$408,025
Communities in Schools of Philadelphia Inc Dba Launch of Philadelphia · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Job- training
$407,467
Hias Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Job- training
$397,363
Strada Collaborative Inc Dba Roadtrip Nation · Indianapolis, IN · 2023
Job- training
$387,661
Temple University - Center for Community Partnerships · Philaelphia, PA · 2024
Job- training
$381,172
Connection Training Services · Philadlephia, PA · 2023
Job- training
$380,000
Strada Collaborative Inc Dba Roadtrip Nation · Indianapolis, IN · 2021
Job-training
$378,396
The Wistar Institute · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Job- training
$378,213
Communities in Schools of Philadelphia Inc Dba Launch of Philadelphia · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Job- training
$375,556
Federation of Neighborhood Centers · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Job- training
$372,831
Connection Training Services · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Job- training
$368,546
Drexel University - Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
Job-training
$366,001
Hias Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Job- training
$365,652
Jobworks Education & Training Systems (Jets) · Fort Wayne, IN · 2023
Job- training
$364,371
Yeah Inc (Youth Empowerment for Advancement Hangout) · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Job- training
$357,250
Jobworks Education & Training Systems (Jets) · Fort Wayne, IN · 2024
Job- training
$350,000
Big Picture Philadelphia · Philadelohia, PA · 2021
Job-training
$343,766
Center for Employment Opportunities · New York, NY · 2023
Job- training
$340,030
Temple University - Center for Community Partnerships · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Job- training
$339,491
Yeah Inc (Youth Empowerment for Advancement Hangout) · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Job- training
$338,220
Community Integrated Services · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
Job-training
$330,745
Fusion Partnerships · Baltimore, MD · 2024
Job- training
$328,125
Yeah Inc (Youth Empowerment for Advancement Hangout) · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Job- training
$325,603
Communities in Schools of Philadelphia Inc Dba Launch of Philadelphia · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
Job-training
$323,900
Nupaths Llc · Enola, PA · 2022
Job- training
$318,416
Philadelphia Energy Authority · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Job- training
$315,568
Connection Training Services · Philadlephia, PA · 2021
Job-training
$313,387
Mural Arts Guild Philadelphia · Philadlephia, PA · 2021
Job-training
$303,618
District 1199c · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Job- training
$303,132
Jobworks Education & Training Systems (Jets) · Fort Wayne, IN · 2021
Job-training
$299,042
Federation of Neighborhood Centers · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
Job-training

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Source: IRS Form 990, Schedule I, as filed by this organization. These are grants already paid. Grants paid directly to individuals are reported to the IRS only as totals, so they do not appear as named lines here.