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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 you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

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

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 6 grants below total $130,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $133,617 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,617 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised 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

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 (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 your 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

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.

Which US states your grants reach

VT
IL
NY
MA
OH
CA
MO
AR
FL

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 edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

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

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +61% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you 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

86%
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

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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%

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

04Your 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
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
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
5
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…

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
Missouri Workers Center

Missouri Workers Center is building a multiracial worker-led movement to advance the rights and power of workers on and off the job in rural, urban, and suburban Missouri.

Employment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Worker Justice Center of New York Inc and 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.

Your grantees are a median of 18 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%10%<5yr14%14%5–10yr19%29%10–20yr16%10%20–35yr13%38%35–55yr16%0%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%7%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%37%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr16%0%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%
1/25
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,540

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

22 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/22
Grantees still filing
17/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, 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 · OtherBrandworkers International Inc — $6,500 · OtherNEO Philanthropy Inc — $6,500 · Other
Community Improvement$197,724Employment$122,000Food & Nutrition$65,924Human Services$52,700Crime & Legal$44,000Education$31,000Other$36,564

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetBrandworkers International Inc — $6,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetLaundry Workers Center Inc — $6,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc — $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% 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
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.

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

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 Food Chain Workers Alliance 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 · 10%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 53%
  • Pioneer Valley Workers Center Inc53% of income from government
  • Infact Dba Corporate Accountability0% 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, 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 16 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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