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Center for Labor Education and Research Inc

The center for labor education and research, inc.

$88k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$33k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Employment$56kHuman Services$55kCivil Rights$25kHealth$22kCrime & Legal$10k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$11,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IMMIGRANT FAMILY SERVICES INSTITUTE (IFSI-USA)$33,000
VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE BERKSHIRES INC$22,000
CENTRO COMUNITARIO DE TRABAJADORES INCORPORATED$11,000
BEYOND BOND AND LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC (BIJAN)$11,000
LA COLABORATIVA INC$11,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BEYOND BOND AND LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC (BIJAN): $11k → 8%LA COLABORATIVA INC: $11k → 16%IMMIGRANT FAMILY SERVICES INSTITUTE (IFSI-USA): $33k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
La Comunidad Inc

Legal, immigration and community organizing

2
Latino Union of Chicago

Latino Union works to defend the rights and dignity of contingent workers, including the right to immigrate, work, live free of oppression and violence, and provide for oneself and one's family.

Human Services
3
California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice

Ccij utilizes coordination, advocacy, and legal services to fight for the liberationof immigrants in detention in california. we seek to empower immigrants in detentionand their communities through technical assistance, education, and…

4
Brockton Workers Alliance Inc

To educate, support, organize, and empower immigrant workers to confront long-term workplace abuses and to lead the fight for their rights through the development of better local and national policies.

Human Services
5
Refugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services

To deliver legal and social services to people and families who want to put down roots in the u.s. and cultivate welcoming communities that uphold our collective freedoms.

Civil Rights
6
Centro De Trabajadores Unidos

Educate workers on their rights,develope leadership in the immigrant community, organize and support al workers as they fight for their rights in the workplace and for changing policies policies that increase standards for all workers.

Human Services
7
Colectiva Legal Del Pueblo

Colectiva Legal del Pueblo is a non-hierarchal collective organization founded for and by undocumented immigrants working to build community leadership and power for migrant justice through legal services, advocacy and education.

Civil Rights
8
Border Workers United

A community-based organization that develops leadership of workers to construct a movement of worker families in the texas borderlands.

9
Brazilian Worker Center Inc

A grassroots, community organization that supports immigrants on issues of workplace rights and immigration. we work with the community, instructing them to execute their rights through organizing, advocacy, education, leadership, capacity…

Human Services
10
Fuerza LaboralPower of Workers

Fuerza Laboral is a workers' rights center whose mission is to shift the balance of power in our economy in favor of workers by educating, training, and organizing workers to become community leaders; taking direct action to recover unpaid…

Education
11
Central American Legal Assistance

Provide free or low cost legal assistance to latino asylum-seekers.

Human Services
12
Center for Immigrant Progress

The organizations primary exempt purpose is charitable and educational.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Labor United Inc and the most unlike its peers is Volunteers in Medicine-Berkshires Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 9 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
3/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

IMMIGRANT FAMILY SERVICES INSTITUTE INC — $33,000 · Human ServicesIMMIGRANT FAMILY SERVICES INSTITUTE I…BEYOND BOND AND LEGAL DEFENSE — $11,000 · Human ServicesBEYOND BOND AND LEGAL DEFENSELA COLABORATIVA INC — $11,000 · Human ServicesLA COLABORATIVA INCRESIST INC — $45,000 · OtherRESIST INCRhode Island Jobs With Justice Education Project — $9,996 · OtherRhode Island Jobs With Justice Educat…VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE-BERKSHIRES INC — $22,000 · HealthVOLUNTEERS IN …COMMUNITY LABOR UNITED INC — $14,895 · Civil RightsCOMMUNITY …CENTRO COMUNITARIO DE TRABAJADORES INCORPORATED — $11,000 · EmploymentCOALITION FOR ECONOMIC JUSTICE INC — $9,996 · Community Improvement
Human Services$55,000Other$54,996Health$22,000Civil Rights$14,895Employment$11,000Community Improvement$9,996

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRESIST INC — $45,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIMMIGRANT FAMILY SERVICES INSTITUTE INC — $33,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE-BERKSHIRES INC — $22,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY LABOR UNITED INC — $14,895 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBEYOND BOND AND LEGAL DEFENSE — $11,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetCENTRO COMUNITARIO DE TRABAJADORES INCORPORATED — $11,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetLA COLABORATIVA INC — $11,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOALITION FOR ECONOMIC JUSTICE INC — $9,996 over 1y, 4.7% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

United Way Of Massachusetts Bay IncMA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Center for Labor Education and Research Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 10%
  • La Colaborativa Inc34% of income from government
  • Volunteers in Medicine-Berkshires Inc10% of income from government
  • Resist Inc2% of income from government
  • Community Labor United Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY2025

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Center for Labor Education and Research Inc?

Find your warmest path to Center for Labor Education and Research Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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