California · Public charity
Food Chain Workers Alliance
The FOOD CHAIN WORKERS ALLIANCE is a coalition of worker-based organizations whose members plant, harvest, process, pack, transport, prepare, serve, and sell food, organizing to improve wages and working conditions for all workers along the food chain. The alliance works together to build a more sustainable food system that respects…
- $134k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 6
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $130k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $18,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $62,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 7
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.4M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 43% of the organizations Food Chain Workers Alliance funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 6 | $130k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $198k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $100k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $75k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 5 | $47k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Movement Strategy Center | $158,800 | 4 | 0% |
| Rural Community Workers Alliance | $122,000 | 3 | 29% |
| Farmworker Association of Florida Inc | $65,924 | 4 | 2% |
| Alianza Agricola Inc | $38,924 | 3 | 13% |
| Workers' Center of Central New York Inc | $38,200 | 5 | 4% |
| Warehouse Workers Justice Center Inc | $35,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Cincinnati Interfaith Workers Cente | $31,000 | 4 | 14% |
| Northwest Arkansas Workers Justice Center | $15,000 | 2 | 9% |
| Worker Justice Center of New York Inc | $9,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Infact DBA Corporate Accountability | $6,564 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 16 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Movement Strategy Center | $158,800 | 4 | 0% |
| Rural Community Workers Alliance | $122,000 | 3 | 29% |
| Farmworker Association of Florida Inc | $65,924 | 4 | 2% |
| Alianza Agricola Inc | $38,924 | 3 | 13% |
| Workers' Center of Central New York Inc | $38,200 | 5 | 4% |
| Warehouse Workers Justice Center Inc | $35,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Cincinnati Interfaith Workers Cente | $31,000 | 4 | 14% |
| Northwest Arkansas Workers Justice Center | $15,000 | 2 | 9% |
| Worker Justice Center of New York Inc | $9,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Infact DBA Corporate Accountability | $6,564 | 1 | 0% |
| Laundry Workers Center Inc | $6,500 | 2 | 2% |
| NEO Philanthropy Inc | $6,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Brandworkers International Inc | $6,500 | 3 | 2% |
| Pioneer Valley Workers Center Inc | $6,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Warren J Plaut Charitable Trust | $2,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Wheelock Mountain Farm Inc | $1,500 | 2 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Food Chain Workers Alliance supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Lawson Valentine Foundation · The Abelard Foundation Inc · North Star Fund Inc · New York Foundation · Hispanics in Philanthropy · Movement Strategy Center · Interfaith Worker Justice · National Employment Law Project · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Hispanic Federation Inc · The Ford Foundation
How this is measured
About Food Chain Workers Alliance
- How much does Food Chain Workers Alliance give?
- Food Chain Workers Alliance reported 6 itemized grants totaling $130,000, out of $133,617 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Food Chain Workers Alliance fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Employment (35%), Community Improvement (29%), Food & Nutrition (20%).
- Who are Food Chain Workers Alliance's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Movement Strategy Center ($159k), Rural Community Workers Alliance ($122k), Farmworker Association of Florida Inc ($66k).
- Does Food Chain Workers Alliance fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Food Chain Workers Alliance?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Lawson Valentine Foundation, The Abelard Foundation Inc.
- Where is Food Chain Workers Alliance based?
- Food Chain Workers Alliance is based in CA.
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