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COMMUNITY LABOR UNITED INC
To drive forward strategic campaigns with grassroots organizations and labor unions that stabilize and strengthen working-class families and communities of color in greater boston.
$89k
Granted FY2024
2
Grants
1
Communities
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0174% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.
Human Services$140kEnvironment$90kCivil Rights$80kCommunity Improvement$75kHousing & Shelter$60kOther$153k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
housingeducationcreateimmigrantssocialeconomicbuilding
2024
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 2 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$49,926
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
- WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS GROUP$49,926
- DOMINICAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER$19,400
02The need
04
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 (FY19–19, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.
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Northeast Clean Energy Council Inc
NECEC leads the just, equitable and rapid transition to a clean energy future and diverse climate economy.
Community Improvement
2
Worcester Community Action Council Inc
Helping people move to economic self-sufficiency through programs, partnerships, and advocacy.
Human Services
3
The Massachusetts Association for
To strengthen and connect the statewide network of community action agencies and collectively advocate for an end to poverty.
Civil Rights
4
Massachusetts Education & Career
Massedco works to bridge the gap in postsecondary education attainment for low-income, first generation youth and adults in massachusetts.
Education
5
Massachusetts Affordable Housing
Massachusetts affordable housing alliance, inc. (maha) breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
Housing & Shelter
6
Massachusetts Nonprofit Network
Strengthen nonprofit sector through public policy, public awareness, and capacity building services.
Education
7
Boston Tenant Coalition Inc
To educate the public concerning the plight of low-income tenants and possible solutions to the crisis
Housing & Shelter
8
Nw Energy Coalition
NWEC leads a broad alliance advancing affordable, equitable clean energy. We envision a carbon-free system providing reliable energy, restoring natural resources, protecting salmon, supporting communities, and prioritizing decarbonization,…
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9
The Network for Social Justice Inc
To foster a movement of systemic change to advance equity and inclusion in winchester and beyond.
Civil Rights
10
Boston Affordable Housing Coalition Inc
Preserve affordable low income housing in boston and the surrounding area
Housing & Shelter
11
Southeast Asian Coalition of Central Ma
Help southeast asians in central massachusetts become productive and successful citizens while continuing to maintain their unique cultural identity, and promoting and encouraging civic engagement.
Human Services
12
Mass Alliance Inc
Mass alliance is a coalition for political and advocacy organizations that work together to build a progressive massachusetts. our member organizations have a diverse range of prorities, including: civic participation, civil rights,…
Civil Rights
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is La Colaborativa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Third Sector New England Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
11/12
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$152,660Human Services$140,000Environment$90,000Civil Rights$80,000Community Improvement$75,000Housing & Shelter$60,000
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds GREENROOTS INC ↗
- Who funds MASS SENIOR ACTION COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC ↗
- Who funds CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds BROOKVIEW HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT ↗
- Who funds NEW ECONOMY COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds CHELSEA COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds BRAZILIAN WORKERS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CLIMABLEORG ↗
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.
Boston Foundation IncMA16.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · The Hyams Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Center for Economic Democracy Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organisation COMMUNITY LABOR UNITED 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
- La Colaborativa Inc — 51% of income from government
- Greenroots Inc — 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: COALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 043541048 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on COALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 58% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Community Labor United Inc?
Find your warmest path to Community Labor United Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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Strange bedfellows
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines