Workforce Solutions Greater Dallas
Legal name: Dallas County Local Workforce Development Board
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 751924974
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Dallas, TX, USA
- Phone
- (214) 290-1000
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Centers to Support the Independence of Specific Populations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $185,836,684
- Expenses
- $185,774,231
- Assets
- $31,899,020
- Liabilities
- $30,898,626
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
39 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ashlee Verner (Interim President/CEO/CFO)
- Connie Rash (Senior Vice President/Board Secretary)
- Demetria W Robinson (Executive Vice President)
- Laurie Bouillion Larrea (Former President/Advisor - Through Jan 2024)
Highest reported compensation
- Laurie Bouillion Larrea (Former President/Advisor - Through Jan 2024): $496,228 total reported compensation
- Ashlee Verner (Interim President/CEO/CFO): $233,306 total reported compensation
- Connie Rash (Senior Vice President/Board Secretary): $198,994 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Workforce Solutions Greater Dallas exists to ensure competitive solutions FOR EMPLOYERS through quality people and FOR PEOPLE through quality jobs. Understanding the challenges of modern workforce requirements, WFSDallas promotes nontraditional training methods such as e-learning and flexible scheduling to facilitate skill enhancement while balancing work-life commitments. About Us: At Workforce Solutions Greater Dallas (WFSDallas), we are dedicated to strengthening our community through comprehensive workforce development initiatives. As a major driving force in the economic landscape of Dallas County, our mission is to create synergies between employers and job seekers, offering tailored solutions that spur economic growth and enhance the quality of life in our region.
What it reported doing in 2024
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Providing state and local areas the flexibility to collaborate across systems in an effort to better address the employment and skills needs of current employees, jobseekers, and employers. WIOA accomplishes this by prescribing: 1) a stronger alignment of the workforce education, and economic development systems; and 2) improving the structure and delivery in the system to assist America's workers in achieving a family-sustaining wage while providing America's employers with the skilled workers they need to compete on a global level. Average number of participants served from 1/1/2024 through 12/31/2024 was 2,043. WIOA offers full training assistance average cost $7,500 per student served.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 99% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97.1%; rating input score 97
- Program expense ratio: 97.2%; rating input score 97
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.17; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.97; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.9%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.8% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 97.1% of revenue deployed · 97.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 28 of 28 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $180.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $496K · 39 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $177.6M reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 8/100.