About Tampa Bay Workforce Alliance
Tampa Bay Workforce Alliance Inc’s largest recent grants all went to Educational Data Systems Inc in Dearborn, Michigan for workforce services, including $4,323,882 in 2023, $4,086,151 in 2024, and $1,406,395 in 2025. That repeat pattern points to a funder built around ongoing workforce administration rather than one-time project support. The foundation serves job seekers and businesses across Hillsborough and Pinellas Counties through programs tied to job training, employment services, career readiness, youth work experience, veteran services, and apprenticeship pathways. Its grantmaking is closely connected to CareerSource Tampa Bay operations, including wage funding, training contracts, and service delivery agreements. The active program list shows that it supports both direct participant services and employer-side workforce tools, such as paid work experience, incumbent worker training, and on-the-job training reimbursement. It also uses procurement channels and provider enrollment to route funding to organizations that deliver training and employment services. The overall picture is a regional workforce funder with a mix of service contracts and program funding directed at labor-market participation.
What Tampa Bay Workforce Alliance Funds
Workforce development is the core of the foundation’s giving. Through the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act program, it contracts local providers to deliver adult, dislocated worker, and youth training and employment services in Hillsborough and Pinellas counties. It also supports the On-the-Job Training program, which reimburses up to 50% of wages during a training period for eligible hires. Youth employment is another clear area: the Paid Work Experience / Tampa Bay Hires Summer P.A.Y.S. program funds wages for young talent, including placements with employers and nonprofits. For employers, the Incumbent Worker Training program helps train current staff to improve skills, avert layoffs, create promotions, and strengthen competitiveness. Veteran services appear through the Get There Faster Grant, which is aimed at eligible veterans seeking training or employment-related support.
How Tampa Bay Workforce Alliance Gives
Typical grant sizes are large: the p25 is $2,746,273, the median is $4,086,151, and the p75 is $4,205,016. The recent record also shows repeated funding to the same recipient across 2023, 2024, and 2025, suggesting multi-year continuation rather than isolated awards. Tampa Bay Workforce Alliance Inc is classified as a regular funder, does not fund individuals, and does not make program-related investments. Several of its funding pathways are structured as contracts, provider enrollment, or wage-reimbursement arrangements rather than open-ended grants, and some active programs accept unsolicited participation while procurement-based channels do not.
