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

From 2025-2026 IRS filings: 91 grants totaling $4.5 million went to workforce development programs-related work in Massachusetts. 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 in Massachusetts, from their own tax filings

FunderGrantsTotal
RF CATALYTIC CAPITAL INC1$1.5 million
THE MASS MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC46$1.3 million
LIBERTY MUTUAL FOUNDATION INC9$515,000
ENCOMPASS RESOURCES FOR LEARNING INC1$286,901
WILLIAM T GRANT FOUNDATION INC1$125,000
LINDE FAMILY FOUNDATION1$100,000
The Hearst Foundation1$100,000
AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE1$100,000
TD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION7$90,000
THE CHARLES F AND BEATRICE D ADAMS2$65,000

Across all funders: 91 grants, $4.5 million total, median grant $22,700.

Largest recipients in Massachusetts

RecipientGrantsTotal
YOUTHBUILD GLOBAL INC1$1.5 million
THE CENTER FOR TEEN EMPOWERMENT INC2$361,901
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY2$225,000
YEAR UP INC2$115,407
Asian American Civic Association1$100,000
A BETTER CITY INITIATIVE INC1$100,000
INNERCITY WEIGHTLIFTING INC1$75,000
BIG BROTHER BIG SISTER OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC1$72,154
COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF BOSTON2$65,000
NORTH BENNET STREET SCHOOL1$60,000

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

Federal opportunities are listed nationally: a nonprofit in Massachusetts can apply to any of them, so this table is not filtered by state.

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.

NumberTitleAgencyAward rangeCloses
23-520Training-based Workforce Development for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (CyberTraU.S. National Science Foundationunspecified to $1.0 million01/21/2027
USDA-NIFA-AFRI-011596Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program Education anJoseph Perez Program Analyst$10,000 to $650,00012/31/2026
HQ003425NFOEASD03Department of War Cyber Service Academy (DoW CSA)Jonathan Bertsch Grantor$50,000 to $20.0 million01/22/2030
PAR-24-235Tribal Undergraduate to Graduate Research Training and Leadership Experiences (TNational Institutes of Healthunspecified to unspecified01/25/2027
PAR-24-236Tribal Undergraduate to Graduate Research Training and Leadership Experiences (TNational Institutes of Healthunspecified to unspecified01/25/2027
24-598Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1U.S. National Science Foundation$4.0 million to $20.0 million02/08/2027
HQ003423NFOEASD01NDEP STEM Open NFOJonathan Bertsch Grantor$100,000 to $10.0 million02/08/2028
24-529Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) ProgramU.S. National Science Foundation$300,000 to $1.0 million03/25/2027

grants.gov's own loose keyword search returns 874 listings mentioning "workforce development programs" anywhere (retrieved 2026-08-03); the table above is our stricter relevance cut.

What these numbers do not say

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.