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Community Labor United Inc

Community labor united's mission is 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.

$240k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$150k
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 FY20172025.

Environment$275kHuman Services$218kCommunity Improvement$123kEmployment$115kHousing & Shelter$112kCivil Rights$50kYouth Development$48k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $215k
$65,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT$150,000
SEIU EDUCATION AND SUPPORT FUND$65,000
BROOKVIEW HOUSE INC$11,500
WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL$8,800
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $160k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%COALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $50k → 11%CHELSEA COLLABORATIVE INC: $25k → 16%WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL: $9k → 8%BROOKVIEW HOUSE INC: $40k → 16%BROOKVIEW HOUSE INC: $12k → 16%BRAZILIAN WORKERS CENTER INC: $25k → 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
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
2
Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc

Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…

Education
3
Massachusetts Nonprofit Network

The mission of the massachusetts nonprofit network is to unite and strengthen the nonprofit sector in the commonwealth through public policy, public awareness, and capacity building services.

Education
4
The Network for Social Justice Inc

To foster a movement of systemic change to advance equity and inclusion in winchester and beyond.

Civil Rights
5
The Massachusetts Association for Community Action Inc

To strengthen and connect the statewide network of community action agencies and collectively advocate for an end to poverty.

Civil Rights
6
Ceres Inc

Ceres is a nonprofit advocacy organization working to accelerate the transition to a cleaner, more just, and resilient world. through education and research, we make the business case for action on the most pressing sustainability…

Environment
7
Massachusetts Council of Human Services Providers Inc

To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.

8
Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership Inc D/B/a Metro Housing Boston

Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.

Housing & Shelter
9
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
10
Environmental League of Massachusetts Inc

The organization's mission is to advocate for policy that meets the scale and urgency of our environmental challenges. as a massachusetts-based organization that engages in advocacy across a full spectrum of climate, environmental, and…

Environment
11
The Community Action Agency of Western Connecticut Inc

The community action agency of western connecticut is a private non-profit corporation serving western connecticut. its primary purpose is to operate a multi-purpose organization to combat poverty and promote self sufficiency among low…

Community Improvement
12
Massachusetts Regional Employment Board Association

The massachusetts workforce association (mwa) is a statewide membership association that leads, advocates and convenes on behalf of the massachusetts workforce development system.

Employment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Third Sector New England Inc and the most unlike its peers is Coalition for Social Justice Action Fund 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

14 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. 14 of the 19 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION — $50,000 · OtherCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATIONWORKFORCE SOLUTIONS GROUP — $49,926 · OtherWORKFORCE SOLUTIONS GROUPDominican Development Center — $49,055 · OtherDominican Development CenterBoston Youth Org Project — $47,731 · OtherBoston Youth Org ProjectNEW ECONOMY COALITION INC — $33,334 · OtherNEW ECONOMY COALITION INCDOMINICAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $19,400 · OtherDOMINICAN DEVELOPMENT CENTERIndividual grant recipient — $10,890 · OtherALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT INC — $185,000 · Community ImprovementALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY …THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $40,000 · Community ImprovementTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND IN…BROOKVIEW HOUSE INC — $51,500 · Human ServicesBROOKVIEW HOUSE INCCOALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE ACTION FUND INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesCOALITION FOR SOCIA…Brazilian Worker Center Inc — $25,000 · Human ServicesBrazilian Worker Ce…LA COLABORATIVA INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesLA COLABORATIVA INCWORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC — $8,800 · Human ServicesWORCESTER COMMUNITY…GREENROOTS INC — $80,000 · EnvironmentGREENROOTS…CLIMABLE INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentCLIMABLE I…MASSACHUSETTS SENIOR ACTION COUNCIL INC — $80,000 · Civil RightsMASSACHUS…SEIU EDUCATION AND SUPPORT FUND — $65,000 · InternationalNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC — $60,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$260,336Community Improvement$225,000Human Services$160,300Environment$90,000Civil Rights$80,000International$65,000Housing & Shelter$60,000

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 budgetALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT INC — $185,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetGREENROOTS INC — $80,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SENIOR ACTION COUNCIL INC — $80,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetSEIU EDUCATION AND SUPPORT FUND — $65,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC — $60,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBROOKVIEW HOUSE INC — $51,500 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION — $50,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetCOALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE ACTION FUND INC — $50,000 over 1y, 58% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ECONOMY COALITION INC — $33,334 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetBrazilian Worker Center Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetLA COLABORATIVA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCLIMABLE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetWORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC — $8,800 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Barr FoundationMA19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Barr Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Hyams Foundation Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Common Stream Inc #0745935 · Center for Economic Democracy Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 organization 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 6%
  • La Colaborativa Inc34% of income from government
  • Brookview House Inc34% of income from government
  • Worcester Community Action Council Inc8% of income from government
  • Seiu Education and Support Fund6% of income from government
  • Brazilian Worker Center Inc6% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc3% of income from government
  • Greenroots Inc1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
2report 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.

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 19 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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