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· Public charity

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.

$165k
Granted FY2022
11
Grants FY2022
9
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2022.

Employment$367kCivil Rights$266kCrime & Legal$164kEducation$140kInternational$65kHuman Services$40kCommunity Improvement$39kReligion$30kOther$0
02FY2022 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$15,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$58k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Workers' Center of Central New York$15,000
Fe Y Justicia$15,000
Workers' Rights Center$15,000
Western North Carolina Workers' Center$15,000
Damayan Migrant Worker Association$15,000
Pilipino Workers Center$15,000
Center for Worker Justice of Eastern Iowa$15,000
South Florida Interfaith Worker Justice$15,000
Cincinnati Interfaith Worker Center$15,000
New Labor$15,000
Voces de la Frontera$15,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, 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%Workers' Center of Central New York: $15k → 14%Voces de la Frontera: $15k → 17%Brazo Interfaith Immigrant Network: $10k → 22%Brazos Interfaith Immigration Network: $15k → 22%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

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IL
WI
MI
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MA
IA
OH
NJ
CA
MO
MD
AR
NC
DC
TX
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$890k · 15 repeat orgs$231k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2022, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
5

Total granted

$890k
$171k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+58%

Still filing today

87%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
EmploymentEducationHuman ServicesInternationalCommunity ImprovementCivil 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

  • PW
    PILIPINO WORKERS CENTER OF SOUTHERN
    5× · 2017–2022 · $76k · revenue +29%
  • TE
    THE EDUCATION & TRAINING INSTITUTE INC
    4× · 2017–2022 · $55k · revenue +65%
  • WN
    WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA WORKERS CENTER
    4× · 2017–2022 · $53k · revenue +96%

Funded once

  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +34%
  • RI
    REBIRTH INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $31k · revenue +105%
  • RC
    RURAL COMMUNITY WORKERS ALLIANCEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $31k · revenue +48%
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
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
2
Lynn Worker Center Inc

Provide know your rights traini

Human Services
3
Warehouse Workers Justice Center Inc

Warehouse Workers for Justice is a worker center fighting for stable, living-wage jobs in warehouses and distribution centers. We educate workers about labor rights, teach folks how to enforce their rights, organize in the workplace and…

Crime & Legal
4
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
5
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
6
Labors Training and Community Development Alliance

Providing education, training and advocacy regarding employee rights and benefits for all working people, to include their immigration status.

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7
Center for Workers' Rights

The center for workers' rights strives to improve working conditions, reduce barriers to securing employment, and remedy workplace injustices for low wage workers in the greater sacramento area.

Employment
8
Fuerza Unida

Fuerza Unidas mission is to empower workers, particularly women workers of color, and their families to achieve social, economic and environmental justice through education, organizing and advocacy. A special part of Fuerza Unidas mission…

Employment
9
Metrowest Worker Center Inccasa Do Trabalhador/Casa Del Trabajador

Metrowest worker center is an immigrant worker-led organization that defends and expands the labor, civil and human rights of all workers.

Civil Rights
10
Centro De Trabajadores Unidos

Educate workers on their rights,develope leadership in the immigrant community, organize and support al workers as they fight for their rights in the workplace and for changing policies policies that increase standards for all workers.

Human Services
11
Arriba Las Vegas Worker Center

Facilitates efforts for immigrants and low income workers to raise up their collective voice and fight for equality, economic justice, social, and political inclusion.

Civil Rights
12
Tennessee Workers Alliance

The tennessee worker's alliance is establised primarily to further the common good and social welfare of the working citizens of the united states of america by engaging in research, education and communication efforts regarding policy…

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Interfaith Workers Cente; the most unlike its peers is Georgetown University. 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

21 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. 21 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/21
Grantees still filing
17/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR LABOR SOCIAL AND SPIRITUAL ACTIVISM: $235,600 · OtherTHE INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR LABOR SOCIAL AND …Center for Worker Justice of Eastern Iowa: $115,600 · OtherCenter for Worker Justice of Eastern IowaNorthwest Arkansas Workers Justice Center: $43,247 · OtherNorthwest Arkansas Workers Justice CenterTOGETHER WEST MICHIGAN EDUCATION FUND: $29,985 · OtherTOGETHER WEST MICHIGAN EDUCATION FUND+4 more: $40,000 · Other+4 moreGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSI…THE EDUCATION & TRAINING INSTITUTE INC: $55,000 · EducationTHE EDUCATION & TRA…CINCINNATI INTERFAITH WORKERS CENTE: $40,275 · EducationCINCINNATI INTERFAI…WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA WORKERS CENTER: $52,500 · EmploymentWESTERN NORTH C…GREATER MINNESOTA WORKER CENTER: $45,600 · EmploymentGREATER MINNESO…RURAL COMMUNITY WORKERS ALLIANCE: $30,600 · EmploymentRURAL COMMUNITY…WORKER JUSTICE WISCONSIN: $22,420 · EmploymentWORKER JUSTICE …PILIPINO WORKERS CENTER OF SOUTHERN: $75,690 · Community ImprovementPILIPINO WO…THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $39,089 · Community ImprovementTHIRD SECTO…FE Y JUSTICIA WORKER CENTER: $37,965 · Civil RightsDAMAYAN MIGRANT WORKERS ASSOCIATION INC: $37,343 · Civil RightsIMMIGRANT SOLIDARITY DUPAGE: $34,780 · InternationalREBIRTH INC: $30,600 · InternationalBRAZOS INTERFAITH IMMIGRATION NETWORK: $25,000 · Human ServicesVOCES DE LA FRONTERA INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesWorkers' Center of Central New York Inc: $15,000 · Human Services
Other$464,432Education$195,275Employment$151,120Community Improvement$114,779Civil Rights$75,308International$65,380Human Services$55,000

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 budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR LABOR SOCIAL AND SPIRITUAL ACTIVISM: $235,600 over 2y, 19% of budgetCenter for Worker Justice of Eastern Iowa: $115,600 over 3y, 18% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPILIPINO WORKERS CENTER OF SOUTHERN: $75,690 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE EDUCATION & TRAINING INSTITUTE INC: $55,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetWESTERN NORTH CAROLINA WORKERS CENTER: $52,500 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetGREATER MINNESOTA WORKER CENTER: $45,600 over 2y, 21% of budgetNorthwest Arkansas Workers Justice Center: $43,247 over 3y, 17% of budgetCINCINNATI INTERFAITH WORKERS CENTE: $40,275 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $39,089 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFE Y JUSTICIA WORKER CENTER: $37,965 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetDAMAYAN MIGRANT WORKERS ASSOCIATION INC: $37,343 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetIMMIGRANT SOLIDARITY DUPAGE: $34,780 over 3y, 17% of budgetREBIRTH INC: $30,600 over 1y, 15% of budgetRURAL COMMUNITY WORKERS ALLIANCE: $30,600 over 1y, 14% of budgetTOGETHER WEST MICHIGAN EDUCATION FUND: $29,985 over 3y, 12% of budgetBRAZOS INTERFAITH IMMIGRATION NETWORK: $25,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetWORKER JUSTICE WISCONSIN: $22,420 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetVOCES DE LA FRONTERA INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWorkers' Center of Central New York Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 4.8% 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…The Abelard Foundatio…Oxfam-America IncHispanics in Philanth…Food Chain Workers Al…Unitarian Universalis…National Employment L…National Domestic Wor…NEO Philanthropy IncNetwork for GoodFidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC19.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Abelard Foundation Inc · Oxfam-America Inc · Hispanics in Philanthropy · Food Chain Workers Alliance · Unitarian Universalist Service Committee Inc · National Employment Law Project · National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Interfaith Worker Justice funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Interfaith Worker Justice. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Education & Training Institute Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report 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, 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.
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How do I get to Interfaith Worker Justice?

Find your warmest path to Interfaith Worker Justice through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 24 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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