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Who funds workforce development programs? Grant data from tax filings and live federal listings

Name: workforce development grant funding data (Grant Graph)
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From 2025-2026 IRS filings: 1,171 grants totaling $175.5 million went to workforce development programs-related work. The largest funders, the typical grant size, and what is open at the federal level right now, all from public records.

The largest private funders of workforce development programs, from their own tax filings

Funder	Grants	Total
Worksystems Inc	22	$18.7 million
SANFORD GROUP RETURN	25	$17.4 million
FINGER LAKES PERFORMING PROVIDER SYSTEM	36	$9.5 million
RF CATALYTIC CAPITAL INC	7	$9.2 million
THE HECKSCHER FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN	31	$5.4 million
The Coca-Cola Foundation Inc	3	$4.5 million
UPPER CUMBERLAND LOCAL WORKFORCE	4	$4.5 million
ILLINOIS ALCOHOL & OTHER DRUG ABUSE	17	$4.0 million
BUILDING DECARBONIZATION COALITION	4	$4.0 million
THE PATTERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION	48	$3.4 million

Across all funders: 1,171 grants, $175.5 million total, median grant $41,650.

Where the money went

State	Grants	Total
NY	148	$24.8 million
OR	80	$22.9 million
CA	52	$15.1 million
SD	15	$11.7 million
DC	23	$9.7 million
PA	68	$7.7 million

Open federal opportunities addressing workforce development programs (nonprofit-eligible)

Matched against the full synopsis text of every posted opportunity, not the listing title alone; restricted to opportunities open to nonprofit applicants. Federal programs rarely use the phrase "workforce development"; this table also matches the agency vocabulary: workforce, job training, apprenticeship, reentry.

Number	Title	Agency	Award range	Closes
23-520	Training-based Workforce Development for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (CyberTra	U.S. National Science Foundation	unspecified to $1.0 million	01/21/2027
USDA-NIFA-AFRI-011596	Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program Education an	Joseph Perez Program Analyst	$10,000 to $650,000	12/31/2026
HQ003425NFOEASD03	Department of War Cyber Service Academy (DoW CSA)	Jonathan Bertsch Grantor	$50,000 to $20.0 million	01/22/2030
PAR-24-235	Tribal Undergraduate to Graduate Research Training and Leadership Experiences (T	National Institutes of Health	unspecified to unspecified	01/25/2027
PAR-24-236	Tribal Undergraduate to Graduate Research Training and Leadership Experiences (T	National Institutes of Health	unspecified to unspecified	01/25/2027
24-598	Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1	U.S. National Science Foundation	$4.0 million to $20.0 million	02/08/2027
HQ003423NFOEASD01	NDEP STEM Open NFO	Jonathan Bertsch Grantor	$100,000 to $10.0 million	02/08/2028
24-529	Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) Program	U.S. National Science Foundation	$300,000 to $1.0 million	03/25/2027

grants.gov's own loose keyword search returns 863 listings mentioning "workforce development programs" anywhere (retrieved 2026-08-03); the table above is our stricter relevance cut.

What these numbers do not say

Private-funder figures come from 990 and 990-PF filings as released by the IRS; filings lag reality by one to two years, and organizations below the e-file thresholds are not represented.
A funder appearing here funded this cause historically. It is not a statement that they are accepting applications.
Cause matching is keyword-based against grant purpose text and recipient names; it undercounts grants described in other words.

Grant Graph is an independent, free index built from public data: IRS Form 990 series e-file releases and the grants.gov API. It is not affiliated with grants.gov or any federal agency. Every figure above is reproducible from the cited public sources.