How much does Fair Work Center give?

Fair Work Center reported 5 grants totaling $222,716 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 33 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does Fair Work Center fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (32%), Civil Rights (18%), Employment (16%).

Who are Fair Work Center's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Queer Power Alliance ($274k), Somali Community Services of Seattle ($268k), GuideStar USA Inc ($248k).

Does Fair Work Center fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Fair Work Center?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, Inatai Foundation, Philanthropy Northwest.

Where is Fair Work Center based?

Fair Work Center is based in WA.

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Washington · Public charity

Fair Work Center

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 the workplace.

$223k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 5
Grants FY2024: 3
Organizations funded FY2023: 0%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $50,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $62,500
Organizations funded a year: 3 to 33; FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 2
Total assets, FY2024: $3.5M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Fair Work Center funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Civil RightsEducationEmploymentCommunity ImprovementOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	5	$223k	40%
FY2023	3	$153k	0%
FY2022	4	$156k	25%
FY2021	14	$720k	64%
FY2020	33	$927k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$695kCivil Rights$390kEmployment$344kPhilanthropy$248kCrime & Legal$185kEducation$137kReligion$60kHealth$30kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Queer Power Alliance	$273,979	4	30%
Somali Community Services of Seattle	$268,124	5	13%
GuideStar USA Inc	$248,439	5	n/a
Partner in Employment	$239,441	2	10%
Colectiva Legal del Pueblo	$149,744	2	4%
Latino Community Fund of Washington State	$133,000	1	2%
Civic Education Fund	$97,121	1	1%
Grassroots Power Project	$50,000	1	2%
21 Progress Fund	$39,974	1	6%
Northwest Immigrant Rights Project	$34,772	1	0%

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All grantees of Fair Work Center by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Queer Power Alliance	$273,979	4	30%
Somali Community Services of Seattle	$268,124	5	13%
GuideStar USA Inc	$248,439	5	n/a
Partner in Employment	$239,441	2	10%
Colectiva Legal del Pueblo	$149,744	2	4%
Latino Community Fund of Washington State	$133,000	1	2%
Civic Education Fund	$97,121	1	1%
Grassroots Power Project	$50,000	1	2%
21 Progress Fund	$39,974	1	6%
Northwest Immigrant Rights Project	$34,772	1	0%
Indian American Community Services	$30,000	1	2%
Latinos En Spokane	$30,000	1	6%
Entre Hermanos	$30,000	1	2%
Southbend United Methodist Church	$30,000	1	n/a
Centro Cultural Mexicano	$30,000	1	7%
Casa Latina	$30,000	1	1%
Community Health Worker Coalition	$30,000	1	6%
Latino Civic Alliance	$30,000	1	3%
Equity in Education Coalition	$30,000	1	1%
Somali Family Safety Task Force Somali Family Safety Task Force	$30,000	1	3%
Shalom United Church of Christ Richland	$30,000	1	n/a
Sunnyslope Church	$30,000	1	n/a
Wakulima USA	$24,000	2	5%
Scholar Fund	$13,200	1	0%
Mi Centro	$12,000	1	1%
Amigos de Seattle	$12,000	1	n/a
Oneamerica	$12,000	1	0%
Washington Community Action Network Education & Research Fund	$12,000	1	1%
Jefferson Cty Immigrant Rights Adv	$12,000	1	n/a
Consejo Counseling & Referral Service	$12,000	1	0%
Teenagers Plus	$12,000	1	7%
Intercommunity Peace and Justice Center	$12,000	1	2%
Southwest Youth And Family Services	$12,000	1	0%
Kitsap Immigrant Assistance Center	$12,000	1	1%
West African Community Council	$12,000	1	1%
Self-Support for Early Learning & Families	$12,000	1	0%
El Comite	$12,000	1	n/a
Pacific County Immigrant Support	$12,000	1	5%
Eritrean Association in Greater Seattle	$12,000	1	1%
McNa Co Ar Rahman Tutoriong	$12,000	1	n/a
Para Los Ninos de Highline	$12,000	1	1%
Northwest Kenyan Community Association	$12,000	1	10%
Fuse Innovation Fund	$12,000	1	1%
Villa Comunitaria	$12,000	1	1%
Working Washington	$7,500	1	1%

Fair Work Center supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 37 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 37.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Seattle FoundationWA59.6× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Inatai Foundation · Philanthropy Northwest · United Way of King County · Sheng-Yen Lu Foundation · Colectiva Legal del Pueblo · Washington Progress Fund · School's Out Washington · Gates Foundation · Latino Community Fund of Washington State · Front and Centered · Puget Sound Energy Foundation

How this is measured

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

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About Fair Work Center

How much does Fair Work Center give?: Fair Work Center reported 5 grants totaling $222,716 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 33 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Fair Work Center fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (32%), Civil Rights (18%), Employment (16%).
Who are Fair Work Center's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Queer Power Alliance ($274k), Somali Community Services of Seattle ($268k), GuideStar USA Inc ($248k).
Does Fair Work Center fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Fair Work Center?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, Inatai Foundation, Philanthropy Northwest.
Where is Fair Work Center based?: Fair Work Center is based in WA.