Tri-County Workforce Investment
Butler, PA · EIN 25-1865354. Reported 73 grants totalling $14.9M to 39 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 Tri-County Workforce Investment, 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. 39 distinct organizations, with 75% 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.
- How much its list changes. 62% 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 $14,380. Half of what it reported fell between $8,069 and $32,969; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $2,361,318. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Career T R a C K | Butler, PA | $11.1M | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Steamfitters Local Union No 449 Joint Apprenticeship & Training | Pittsburgh, PA | $2,538,284 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Butler County Community College | Butler, PA | $165,581 | 6 | 5 | 2024 |
| Quality Life Services | Butler, PA | $155,602 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Washington Greene County Job Training Agency Inc | Washington, PA | $132,878 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Q&a Training & Consulting Inc | Johnstown, PA | $116,969 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Sintermet LLC | Kittanning, PA | $68,256 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Sloan Brothers Company | Freeport, PA | $64,639 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Lenape Technical School | Ford City, PA | $55,861 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Belleville International | Butler, PA | $53,082 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Economic Modeling LLC | Dallas, TX | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Butler County Area Vo-Tech | Butler, PA | $43,981 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Armstrong County Educational Trust | Ford City, PA | $31,370 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Hoffer's Video Production | Evans City, PA | $28,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Indiana County Technology Center | Indiana, PA | $27,994 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Local Workforce Investment for the Westmoreland-Fayette Workforce | Youngwood, PA | $27,713 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Indiana County Conservation District | Indiana, PA | $21,250 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Indiana Skilled Nursing Inc | Indiana, PA | $17,368 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Arin Intermediate Unit #28 | Indiana, PA | $15,612 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Black Label Lawn Care | Valencia, PA | $11,790 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Autumn Grove Care Center | Harrisville, PA | $11,193 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cid Associates Inc | Sarver, PA | $9,897 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Slippery Rock Area School District | Slippery Rock, PA | $9,800 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Freeport Area School District | Freeport, PA | $9,128 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Community Guidance Center | Indiana, PA | $8,642 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| River Valley School District | Blairsville, PA | $8,390 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Indiana Area School District | Indiana, PA | $8,069 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Gattacus It Solutions | Chicora, PA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Armstrong County Memorial Hospital | Kittanning, PA | $7,600 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ford City Borough | Ford City, PA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Five Star Construction Inc | Cranberry Twp, PA | $7,109 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bauer Excavating Inc | Butler, PA | $6,913 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Halligan Land & Tree Inc | Apollo, PA | $6,548 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Indiana Regional Medical Center | Indiana, PA | $6,400 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lenape Tech Adult Education | Ford City, PA | $6,200 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Harmony Castings LLC | Harmony, PA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Knoch School District | Saxonburg, PA | $5,991 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Oberg Industries | Freeport, PA | $5,950 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Regional Learning Alliance | Cranberry Township, PA | $5,429 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
15 of 39 (38%) 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.
- Career Track Inc
TANF YOUTH, WIOA YOUTH, WIOA ADULT, DISLOCATED WORKER, AND REGIONAL GRANTS - Steamfitters Technology Center Local 449
ARC GRANT, H-1B JOB TRAINING GRANT - Butler County Community College
YOUTH, INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIP GRANT, STATE GRANT - Quality Life Services
INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIP GRANT, DISLOCATED WORKER, WORKFORCE OPPORTUNITY FOR RURAL COMMUNITIES GRANT - Economic Modeling LLC
INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIP GRANT - Lenape Technical School
INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIP GRANT, WIOA YOUTH, ARC INSPIRE, DISLOCATED WORKER, INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIP
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 10 of 39 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.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 13 | $2,678,823 | $14,380 |
| 2021 | 9 | $2,357,938 | $25,470 |
| 2022 | 9 | $2,854,826 | $26,125 |
| 2023 | 24 | $4,096,496 | $10,140 |
| 2024 | 18 | $2,866,883 | $13,752 |
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
100% 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.
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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.
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 $14,380 -- 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 Pennsylvania.
- 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 Tri-County Workforce Investment'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 3 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 15 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: 112 Hollywood Drive 201, Butler, PA, 16001.
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