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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.

$134k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$62k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Employment$190kCommunity Improvement$159kFood & Nutrition$111kEducation$31kCrime & Legal$24kHuman Services$20kCivil Rights$7kPublic Benefit$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $130,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $133,617 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $3,617 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $62k
$18,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RURAL COMMUNITY WORKERS ALLIANCE$62,000
WORKERS CENTER OF CENTRAL NEW YORK$26,500
LA ALIANZA AGRICOLA$18,500
WAREHOUSE WORKERS FOR JUSTICE$10,000
PIONEER VALLEY WORKERS CENTER$6,500
NEO PHILANTHROPY$6,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PIONEER VALLEY WORKERS CENTER: $7k → 12%WORKERS CENTER OF CENTRAL NEW YORK: $27k → 14%MIGRANT JUSTICE: $2k → 14%WORKERS CENTER OF CENTRAL NEW YORK: $7k → 14%LAUNDRY WORKERS CENTER: $7k → 17%WORKERS CENTER OF CENTRAL NEW YORK: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
IL
NY
MA
OH
CA
MO
AR
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$490k · 7 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
7

Total granted

$490k
$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+5%

Still filing today

100%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalEmploymentEnvironmentCivil RightsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • RC
    RURAL COMMUNITY WORKERS ALLIANCE
    3× · 2020–2024 · $122k · revenue +61% · 29% of their budget
  • FA
    Farmworker Association of Florida Inc
    4× · 2018–2023 · $66k · revenue +7%
  • AA
    Alianza Agricola Inc
    3× · 2020–2024 · $39k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • NA
    Northwest Arkansas Workers Justice Center
    2× · 2017–2018 · $15k
  • Worker Justice Center of New York Inc
    2× · 2018–2022 · $9k · revenue +5%
  • ID
    Infact DBA Corporate Accountability
    one grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue 0%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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…

Employment
2
Central Ohio Workers Center Inc

The Central Ohio Worker Center is a non-profit organization that educates, empowers, and advocates for and with low-wage and immigrant workers in Central Ohio.

Civil Rights
3
Western Ny Coalition of Farmworker Serving Agencies Inc

To promote justice, dignity, and equity for migrants and farmworkers through advocacy, education, outreach, and direct services. We empower our communities to achieve self-sufficiency by fostering collaboration among partners.

Human Services
4
Center for Worker Justice of Eastern Iowa

CWJ is organized around the following priority issues: workers rights to proper payment and safe work, protecting/improving housing options, ensuring equal access to community services for all residents, and empowering assistance to those…

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5
Fuerza LaboralPower of Workers

Fuerza Laboral is a workers' rights center whose mission is to shift the balance of power in our economy in favor of workers by educating, training, and organizing workers to become community leaders; taking direct action to recover unpaid…

Education
6
Workers Center for Racial Just Nfp

The mission of the Workers Center For Racial Justice is to eliminate structural barriers to sustainable and living wage

Civil Rights
7
Interfaith Worker Justice

To advance the rights of workers by engaging diverse faith communities into action, from grassroots organizing to shaping policy at the local, state and national levels. They envision a nation where all workers enjoy the rights to:…

Religion
8
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…

—
9
Chicago Workers' Collaborative Nfp

Chicago Workers' Collaborative's mission is to promote full employment and equality for the lowest wage-earners, primarily temporary staffing workers, in the Chicago region through leadership and skills training, critical assistance and…

Education
10
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…

Employment
11
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
12
Jobs With Justice Inc

The Vermont Workers Center provides technical assistance and information to individuals, groups and organizations. Jobs with Justice educates the public about labor issues.

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Worker Justice Center of New York Inc; the most unlike its peers is Warren J Plaut Charitable Trust. 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

22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
17/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $158,800 · Community ImprovementMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTERAlianza Agricola Inc: $38,924 · Community ImprovementAlianza Agricola IncRURAL COMMUNITY WORKERS ALLIANCE: $122,000 · EmploymentRURAL COMMUNITY WORKERS A…Farmworker Association of Florida Inc: $65,924 · Food & NutritionFarmworker As…Workers' Center of Central New York Inc: $38,200 · Human ServicesWorkers' C…Laundry Workers Center Inc: $6,500 · Human ServicesLaundry Wo…PIONEER VALLEY WORKERS CENTER INC: $6,500 · Human ServicesPIONEER VA…+1 more: $1,500 · Human ServicesWarehouse Workers Justice Center Inc: $35,000 · Crime & LegalWarehouse…Worker Justice Center of New York Inc: $9,000 · Crime & LegalWorker Ju…CINCINNATI INTERFAITH WORKERS CENTE: $31,000 · EducationNorthwest Arkansas Workers Justice Center: $15,000 · OtherWARREN J PLAUT CHARITABLE TRUST: $2,000 · OtherInfact DBA Corporate Accountability: $6,564 · OtherNEO Philanthropy Inc: $6,500 · OtherBrandworkers International Inc: $6,500 · Other
Community Improvement$197,724Employment$122,000Food & Nutrition$65,924Human Services$52,700Crime & Legal$44,000Education$31,000Other$36,564

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $158,800 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetRURAL COMMUNITY WORKERS ALLIANCE: $122,000 over 3y, 29% of budgetFarmworker Association of Florida Inc: $65,924 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetAlianza Agricola Inc: $38,924 over 3y, 13% of budgetWorkers' Center of Central New York Inc: $38,200 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetWarehouse Workers Justice Center Inc: $35,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetCINCINNATI INTERFAITH WORKERS CENTE: $31,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetNorthwest Arkansas Workers Justice Center: $15,000 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetWorker Justice Center of New York Inc: $9,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetInfact DBA Corporate Accountability: $6,564 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLaundry Workers Center Inc: $6,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBrandworkers International Inc: $6,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetPIONEER VALLEY WORKERS CENTER INC: $6,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetWARREN J PLAUT CHARITABLE TRUST: $2,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Amalgamated Charitabl…Lawson Valentine Foun…The Abelard Foundatio…North Star Fund IncNew York FoundationHispanics in Philanth…Movement Strategy Cen…Interfaith Worker Jus…National Employment L…Ben & Jerry's Foundat…Hispanic Federation I…The Ford Foundation
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC27.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Food Chain Workers Alliance funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Food Chain Workers Alliance. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 53%
  • Pioneer Valley Workers Center Inc: 53% of income from government
  • Infact Dba Corporate Accountability: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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