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· Public charity

Mujeres Unidas y Activas

MUAis an organization of Latina and Indigenous immigrant women with the mission of growing our personal and community power to achieve social and economic justice.

$4.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$3.8M
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.

Civil Rights$5.3MEmployment$3.7MHousing & Shelter$924kEducation$321kHuman Services$253kHealth$129kCrime & Legal$103kPhilanthropy$74kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $197k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $448k
  • $250k+1 grant · $3.8M
$46,904
Median grant
2
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Ctr Empowered Politics Edu Fd$3,833,615
Dolores Street Community Svcs$86,356
Bend the ArcHand in Hand$86,137
Filipino Advocates for Jstice$74,357
Pilipino Workers Center$68,567
CHIRLA$67,240
IDEPSCA$65,728
Chinese Progressive Assoc$46,904
Centro Laboral de Graton$29,190
WERC Golden Gate University$25,833
Filipino American Dvlpmnt Ctr$22,289
Pomona Economic Opprtnity Ctr$21,240
Centro Cultural de Mexico$19,779
Filipino Migrant Center$18,873
Step Forward Foundation$12,464
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 (FY17–24, $994k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Filipino Advocates for Jstice: $232k → 10%Filipino Advocates for Jstice: $150k → 10%Filipino Advocates for Jstice: $127k → 10%Filipino Advocates for Jstice: $108k → 10%Filipino Advocates for Jstice: $74k → 10%Filipino Advocates Justice: $49k → 10%Filipino Advocates Justice: $25k → 10%Filipino American Dvlpmnt Ctr: $61k → 10%Filipino American Dvlpmnt Ctr: $45k → 10%Filipino American Dvlpmnt Ctr: $34k → 10%Filipino American Dvlpmnt Ctr: $33k → 10%Filipino American Dvlpmnt Ctr: $33k → 10%Filipino American Dvlpmnt Ctr: $22k → 10%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.
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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.8M · 19 repeat orgs$4.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
8

Total granted

$6.8M
$201k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+37%

Still filing today

100%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsArts & CultureHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesEducationHealthOther
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

  • MA
    MISSION ACTION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $924k · revenue +301%
  • FA
    FILIPINO ADVOCATES FOR JUSTICE
    7× · 2017–2024 · $766k · revenue +356%
  • PW
    PILIPINO WORKERS CENTER OF SOUTHERN
    8× · 2017–2024 · $746k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • DG
    DANCERS GROUPgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $54k · revenue +55%
  • TF
    THE FILIPINO COMMUNITY CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $38k · revenue +43%
  • FF
    Freedom for Immigrantsgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $38k · revenue +124%
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
La Raza Centro Legal - San Francisco

La Raza Centro Legal San Francisco provides high quality, highly trusted, free legal services to low-income or immigrant clients in the San Francisco Bay Area.

—
2
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
3
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
4
Asian Law Caucus

The Asian Law Caucus's mission is to promote, advance, and represent the legal and civil rights of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities, recognizing that social, economic, political and racial inequalities continue to exist…

Crime & Legal
5
Centro Binacional Para El Desarrollo Indigena Oaxaqueno

Building Indigenous power through collective action to achieve economic, social and cultural development.

International
6
Pangea Legal Services

Pangea's mission is to provide deportation defense services, advocate for policy change, and provide education and legal empowerment for our immigrant communities.

Crime & Legal
7
California Center for Movement Legal Services

The California Center for Movement Legal Services (Movement Legal) provides legal services in the pursuit of improving the lives of California's traditionally underserved residents, carrying out legal work that fosters community led policy…

Crime & Legal
8
Colectiva Legal Del Pueblo

Colectiva Legal del Pueblo is a non-hierarchal collective organization founded for and by undocumented immigrants working to build community leadership and power for migrant justice through legal services, advocacy and education.

Civil Rights
9
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area

As one of the most enduring civil rights institutions on the West Coast, we work to dismantle systems of oppression and racism, and build an equitable and just society.

—
10
Southern California Immigration Project

Southern California Immigration Project is a public interest nonprofit organization dedicated to providing pro bono legal services to survivors of human and civil rights violations.

International
11
Legal Link

Legal Link removes legal barriers that prolong poverty by adding critically needed capacity to the legal ecosystem.

Crime & Legal
12
Immigrant Defenders Law Center

Immigrant Defenders Law Center (ImmDef) is a next-generation social justice law firm that defends our immigrant communities against injustices in the immigration system.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Filipino Advocates for Justice; the most unlike its peers is Wladyslaw Poniecki Charitable Foundation. 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

27 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. 27 of the 28 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
19/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND: $3,833,615 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUNDCOALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS: $713,102 · Civil RightsCOALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS+3 more: $185,627 · Civil RightsFILIPINO ADVOCATES FOR JUSTICE: $765,735 · Human ServicesFILIPINO A…Filipino-American Development Foundation: $228,219 · Human ServicesFilipino-A…MISSION ACTION INC: $923,696 · Housing & ShelterMISSION A…+1 more: $5,500 · Housing & ShelterPILIPINO WORKERS CENTER OF SOUTHERN: $745,602 · Community ImprovementCentro Laboral de Graton: $531,042 · EducationGOLDEN GATE UNIVERSITY: $200,000 · EducationINSTITUTO DE EDUCACION POPULAR DEL SUR DE CALIFORNIA: $541,276 · OtherINSTITUTO DE EDUCACIO…CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $434,456 · OtherCHINESE PROGRESSIVE A…POMONA ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CENTER: $338,740 · OtherPOMONA ECONOMIC OPPOR…CENTRO CULTURAL DE MEXICO EN EL CONDADO DE ORANGE: $142,976 · OtherCENTRO CULTURAL DE ME…Human Agenda: $95,000 · OtherTHOUSAND CURRENTS: $194,325 · OtherTHOUSAND CURRENTS+9 more: $301,625 · Other+9 moreBEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE: $644,320 · Philanthropy
Civil Rights$4,732,344Human Services$993,954Housing & Shelter$929,196Community Improvement$745,602Education$731,042Other$2,048,398Philanthropy$644,320

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND: $3,833,615 over 1y, 16% of budgetMISSION ACTION INC: $923,696 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetFILIPINO ADVOCATES FOR JUSTICE: $765,735 over 7y, 10% of budgetPILIPINO WORKERS CENTER OF SOUTHERN: $745,602 over 8y, 5.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS: $713,102 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetBEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE: $644,320 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetINSTITUTO DE EDUCACION POPULAR DEL SUR DE CALIFORNIA: $541,276 over 4y, 10% of budgetCentro Laboral de Graton: $531,042 over 7y, 28% of budgetCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $434,456 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetPOMONA ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CENTER: $338,740 over 6y, 7.2% of budgetFilipino-American Development Foundation: $228,219 over 6y, 9.3% of budgetGOLDEN GATE UNIVERSITY: $200,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHOUSAND CURRENTS: $194,325 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCENTRO CULTURAL DE MEXICO EN EL CONDADO DE ORANGE: $142,976 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetFilipino Migrant Center: $135,627 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetHuman Agenda: $95,000 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetSan Francisco Senior and Disability Action DBA Senior & Disability Action: $66,985 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetSTEP FORWARD FOUNDATION: $62,126 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetDANCERS GROUP: $54,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE FILIPINO COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $38,364 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetFreedom for Immigrants: $38,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetWLADYSLAW PONIECKI CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetCENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO WOMEN AGAINST RAPE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetStreet Level Health Project: $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

Tides CenterNational Domestic Wor…The California Endowm…The James Irvine Foun…Chinese Progressive A…The San Francisco Fou…East Bay Community Fo…Silicon Valley Commun…Liberty Hill Foundati…Tides FoundationNational Day Laborer …Movement Strategy Cen…
Tides CenterCA32.9× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tides Center · National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc · The California Endowment · The James Irvine Foundation · Chinese Progressive Association · The San Francisco Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · Tides Foundation · National Day Laborer Organizing Network · Movement Strategy Center

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 Mujeres Unidas y Activas funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mujeres Unidas y Activas. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 28 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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