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Centro de Trabajadores Unidos En Lucha

Ctul is a worker-led organization where workers organize, educate and empower each other to fight for a voice in their workplaces and in their communities.

$329k
Granted FY2023
3
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$224k
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 FY20192023.

Employment$533kCivil Rights$348kEducation$89kPublic Benefit$55kCommunity Improvement$44k
02FY2023 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$55,440
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROC MN$223,573
NEW JUSTICE PROJECT$55,440
UNIDOS MN EDUCATION FUND$50,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WORKING PARTNERSHIPS INC: $13k → 11%ISAIAH: $90k → 14%RESTAURANT OPPORTUNITIES CENTERS UNITED INC: $30k → 17%AWOOD CENTER: $129k → 11%NEW JUSTICE PROJECT: $55k → 14%AWOOD CENTER: $60k → 11%AWOOD CENTER: $60k → 11%BUILDING DIGNITY AND RESPECT: $19k → 11%BUILDING DIGNITY AND RESPECT: $15k → 11%UNIDOS MN EDUCATION FUND: $50k → 11%NAVIGATE MN: $27k → 11%NAVIGATE MN: $13k → 11%CENTRAL AREA NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION: $10k → 11%INQUILINXS UNIDXS POR JUSTICIA: $8k → 11%ROC MN: $224k → 11%ROC MN: $133k → 11%ROC MN: $94k → 11%ROC MN: $40k → 11%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 edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$893k · 4 repeat orgs$176k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
4

Total granted

$893k
$121k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+57%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23
Community ImprovementCivil RightsReligionEducationEmploymentPublic BenefitOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • RO
    RESTAURANT OPPORTUNITIES CENTERS UNITED INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $521k · revenue -29%
  • CO
    COUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS MINNESOTA
    3× · 2019–2021 · $249k · revenue -37%
  • UM
    UNIDOS MINNESOTA EDUCATION FUND
    3× · 2020–2023 · $89k · revenue +134%

Funded once

  • I
    ISAIAHgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $90k · revenue +57%
  • WP
    Working Partnerships Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +124%
  • CA
    Central Area Neighborhood Development Organizationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +35%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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
Minnesota Voice

Minnesota Voice is a collaboration of organizations working toward permanent change in social, racial, and economic justice by increasing civic engagement and voter participation across the state.

Public Benefit
2
Growth & Justice

To develop and advocate for public policy that makes Minnesota's economy more prosperous and fair for all Minnesotans.

3
Leadership Matters Mn

Leadership matters mn is focused on advancing a policy agenda that places working minnesotans first. we support economic growth, job creation and equitable tax and education policies that will allow every minnesotan to thrive.

Education
4
Elevate Minnesota

To educate the public about the history, purpose and importance of Minnesota unions working in construction, truck driving, and other industrial operations to solidify public support for unions and show the public who the members of unions…

5
Working Washington

We are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…

6
Minnesota Indigenous Business Alliance

ACT: Align Partners, Connect Businesses to Resources and Transform Native Economies.

Community Improvement
7
Raise the Wage Nebraska

Advocacy of policies to support Nebraskans.

8
Center for Economic Inclusion

The Center for Economic Inclusion is an organization committed to strengthening the Minneapolis - Saint Paul region's civic infrastructure and collective capacity to disrupt systems and influence market forces to catalyze shared prosperity…

Community Improvement
9
African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

Human Services
10
Build Wealth Mn Inc

Build Wealth MN's (BWMN) mission is to empower underserved communities and populations in the Twin Cities metro area to achieve social and economic wealth through community, economic, and housing development.

Education
11
Violence Free Minnesota

To represent victim/survivors of relationship abuse and member programs; challenge systems and institutions; promote social change; and support, educate, and connect member programs.

12
Mid-City Community Advocacy Network

Mid-city community advocacy network works to build a safe, productive, and healthy community for the residents of city heights and greater san diego through collaboration, advocacy, and organizing.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Working Partnerships Inc and the most unlike its peers is Restaurant Opportunities Centers United 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

RESTAURANT OPPORTUNITIES CENTERS UNITED INC — $520,885 · OtherRESTAURANT OPPORTUNITIES CENTERS UNITED INC+1 more — $8,063 · OtherCOUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS MINNESOTA — $249,427 · Civil RightsCOUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMI…ISAIAH — $90,040 · ReligionISAIAHUNIDOS MINNESOTA EDUCATION FUND — $89,327 · EducationUNIDOS MI…TAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND — $55,440 · Public BenefitBUILDING DIGNITY AND RESPECT STANDARDS COUNCIL — $33,518 · Community ImprovementCentral Area Neighborhood Development Organization — $10,000 · Community ImprovementWorking Partnerships Inc — $12,500 · Employment
Other$528,948Civil Rights$249,427Religion$90,040Education$89,327Public Benefit$55,440Community Improvement$43,518Employment$12,500

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 budgetRESTAURANT OPPORTUNITIES CENTERS UNITED INC — $520,885 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetCOUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS MINNESOTA — $249,427 over 3y, 13% of budgetISAIAH — $90,040 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetUNIDOS MINNESOTA EDUCATION FUND — $89,327 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetTAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND — $55,440 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBUILDING DIGNITY AND RESPECT STANDARDS COUNCIL — $33,518 over 2y, 14% of budgetWorking Partnerships Inc — $12,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCentral Area Neighborhood Development Organization — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% 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.

Headwaters Foundation for JusticeMN15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Headwaters Foundation for Justice · The McKnight Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Solidago Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Centro de Trabajadores Unidos En Lucha 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2023
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $419k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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