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Southcentral Workforce Investment Board

Harrisburg, PA · EIN 51-0475788. Reported 90 grants totalling $39.8M to 48 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

48organizations funded
$39,417median reported grant
$39.8Mgranted, 2020-2024
58%of grantees funded again the next year
65%of dollars to its largest recipient

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:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Southcentral Workforce Investment Board, the IRS classifies it under employment rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE J99) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 48 distinct organizations, with 65% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
  3. How much its list changes. 58% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 56% median for grantmaking charities -- lower than the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $39,417. Half of what it reported fell between $14,020 and $197,243; the smallest was $5,230 and the largest $7,726,598. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
8 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
29 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
13 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
7 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
14 grants
$250,000 Or More
19 grants

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Equus Workforce SolutionsMedia, PA$25.9M552024
Educational Data Systems IncDearborn, MI$4,869,883222021
The Harrisburg University of Science and TechnologyHarrisburg, PA$2,178,543552024
Crispus Attucks Association of York PennsylvaniaYork, PA$1,608,489552024
Lancaster-Lebanon Int Unit #13Lancaster, PA$922,607442023
Manufacturers Association of South Central PaYork, PA$800,244552024
Drexel UniversityPhiladelphia, PA$739,426552024
Knovva AcademyBoston, MA$734,617222024
Envoy Advisory LLCBrooklyn, NY$244,000222024
Partnership for Career DevelopmentEnola, PA$211,196332022
U Group LLCHummelstown, PA$177,657112020
Capital Region Econ Devmt CorpHarrisburg, PA$148,700432024
Perry County Econ Devel AuthorityNew Bloomfield, PA$127,496332022
AuberleMckeesport, PA$124,043112024
Allegro Learning SolutionsHummelstown, PA$115,000112023
Debbie KaufmanDresher, PA$100,203222024
Justiceworks Youthcare IncPittsburgh, PA$90,787112024
Employment Skills CenterCarlisle, PA$81,083442024
The York County Alliance for LearningYork, PA$70,000552024
White Rose CollectiveYork, PA$53,513112024
Economic Development Compnay of Lancaster CountyLancaster, PA$45,000112020
York County Economic AllianceYork, PA$45,000112020
True ColorsNewport News, VA$40,000112023
Harrisburg Regional ChamberHarrisburg, PA$35,000112020
Junior Achievement of South Central PennsylvaniaYork, PA$35,000112024
Cumberland Area Economic Development CorporationMechanicsburg, PA$25,000112020
Jobscan CorporationSeattle, WA$24,000112023
UpmcPittsburgh, PA$20,000222022
Lincoln Intermediate UnitNew Oxford, PA$19,890112022
Adams County Economic Development CorporationGettysburg, PA$17,000112020
Franklin County Area Development CorporationChambersburg, PA$16,000112020
Lebanon Valley Economic Development CorporationLebanon, PA$16,000112020
West Perry School DistrictElliottsburg, PA$16,000112024
Gusto Marketing Group LLCHarrisburg, PA$15,140112024
Capital Area Intermediate UnitEnola, PA$13,600112022
Southcentral Workforce Investment BoardHarrisburg, PA$12,535112024
Tuscarora Intermediate Unit 11Mcveytown, PA$11,722112022
Tri County Opportunities Industrialization Center IncHarrisburg, PA$11,175112024
Kimeka CampbellHarrisburg, PA$10,500112024
GraphtechHarrisburg, PA$10,166112021
Mantec IncYork, PA$10,000112023
Shippensburg University SbdcShippensburg, PA$10,000112024
Formassembly IncBloomington, IN$8,525112021
Lebanon Valley CollegeAnnville, PA$8,250112020
WILSON500 IncCamp Hill, PA$7,590112023
Keystone Apprenticeship Trust FundManheim, PA$6,000112023
Greater Chambersburg Chamber FoundationChambersburg, PA$5,781112020
Intrada Technologies IncMuncy, PA$5,230112023

16 of 48 (33%) 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.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 18 of 48 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Education
6 orgs
Community Improvement
6 orgs
Employment
2 orgs
Housing & Shelter
1 org
Human Services
1 org
International Affairs
1 org
Health Care
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202021$6,807,629$37,755
202114$8,217,742$66,290
202214$6,616,870$17,445
202319$9,306,298$40,000
202422$8,853,213$44,654

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

85% of its giving went to organizations in Pennsylvania. 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.

Pennsylvania
$33.9M
Michigan
$4.9M
Massachusetts
$735K
New York
$244K
Virginia
$40K
Washington
$24K
Indiana
$9K

Down to the city

Media, PA
$25.9M
Dearborn, MI
$4.9M
York, PA
$2.6M
Harrisburg, PA
$2.4M
Lancaster, PA
$968K
Philadelphia, PA
$739K

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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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

The Foundation for Enhancing Communities8 shared recipientsYork County Community Foundation6 shared recipientsPowder Mill Foundation5 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program5 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund4 shared recipientsUnited Way of the Capital Region4 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. 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.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $39,417 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Pennsylvania.
  4. 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.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Southcentral Workforce Investment Board's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 13 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 9 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: 4201 Crums Mill Road, Harrisburg, PA, 17112.

EIN 51-0475788 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded.

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