How much does National Employment Law Project give?

National Employment Law Project reported 23 grants totaling $695,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 44 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does National Employment Law Project fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (27%), Employment (25%), Civil Rights (23%).

Who are National Employment Law Project's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates of Southern California ($1.7M), Chinese Progressive Association ($1.6M), Business for a Fair Minimum Wage Inc ($1.3M).

Does National Employment Law Project fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as National Employment Law Project?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, New Venture Fund, The Ford Foundation.

Where is National Employment Law Project based?

National Employment Law Project is based in NY.

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New York · Public charity

National Employment Law Project

To build a just and inclusive economy where all workers have expansive rights and thrive in good jobs.

$695k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 23
Grants FY2024: 39
Organizations funded FY2023: 41%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $25,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $130,000
Organizations funded a year: 18 to 44; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 14
Total assets, FY2024: $20M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 41% of the organizations National Employment Law Project funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $760k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Crime & LegalCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesEmploymentEducationCivil 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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	23	$695k	13%
FY2023	39	$2.7M	41%
FY2022	44	$6.0M	48%
FY2021	38	$5.3M	50%
FY2020	30	$2.7M	50%
FY2019	18	$1.5M	6%
FY2018	20	$855k	70%
FY2017	23	$2.1M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

Crime & Legal$6.0MEmployment$5.6MCivil Rights$5.1MCommunity Improvement$2.2MHuman Services$972kEducation$698kPublic Benefit$683kHousing & Shelter$285kOther$0

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
Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates of Southern California	$1,740,000	5	22%
Chinese Progressive Association	$1,550,000	6	7%
Business for a Fair Minimum Wage Inc	$1,334,000	7	73%
Pilipino Workers Center of Southern	$1,188,000	7	9%
National Legal Advocacy Network Dba Glow	$1,001,650	5	5%
Maintenance Industry Labor-Management Cooperation Trust Fund	$770,000	7	6%
Bet Tzedek	$735,000	5	2%
California Rural Legal Assistance Inc	$640,000	5	1%
Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project	$590,000	5	4%
Mississippi Workers Center for Human Rights Inc	$551,160	5	73%

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All grantees of National Employment Law Project by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates of Southern California	$1,740,000	5	22%
Chinese Progressive Association	$1,550,000	6	7%
Business for a Fair Minimum Wage Inc	$1,334,000	7	73%
Pilipino Workers Center of Southern	$1,188,000	7	9%
National Legal Advocacy Network Dba Glow	$1,001,650	5	5%
Maintenance Industry Labor-Management Cooperation Trust Fund	$770,000	7	6%
Bet Tzedek	$735,000	5	2%
California Rural Legal Assistance Inc	$640,000	5	1%
Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project	$590,000	5	4%
Mississippi Workers Center for Human Rights Inc	$551,160	5	73%
Cabrini Green Legal Aid	$539,500	2	12%
Asian Law Caucus	$480,000	6	5%
Texas Fair Defense Project	$475,000	2	31%
Georgia Justice Project Inc	$425,000	2	13%
Legal Aid at Work	$410,000	3	2%
Community Legal Services Inc	$400,000	2	2%
Temp Worker Justice	$382,000	3	n/a
Garment Worker Center	$350,000	4	13%
Restaurant Opportunities Centers United Inc	$340,000	4	2%
Warehouse Worker Resource Center	$322,500	3	6%
East Bay Community Law Center	$300,000	2	2%
Fair Work Center	$263,000	4	4%
Make the Road New York	$261,000	3	0%
The Beacon of Downtown Houston	$260,000	2	5%
Justice and Accountability Center of Louisiana	$250,000	2	16%
Cincinnati Interfaith Workers Cente	$233,000	3	30%
Workers Defense Project	$233,000	3	3%
Centro de Trabajadores Unidos En Lucha	$217,427	6	6%
The Legal Aid Society	$200,000	1	0%
Center for Community Change	$200,000	1	1%
Community Partners	$195,000	2	0%
Golden Gate University	$190,000	2	0%
Align the Alliance for a Greater New York Inc	$183,500	3	10%
Wecount	$175,000	3	5%
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois	$175,000	1	n/a
Miami Workers Center Inc	$175,000	3	3%
Progressive Maryland Education Fund Inc	$165,000	4	15%
Center for Popular Democracy Inc	$160,000	2	0%
The People's Lobby Education Institute	$150,750	4	6%
Massachusetts Communities Action Network Inc	$150,000	2	9%
Chinese Progressive Assn for Tuwu	$150,000	2	n/a
Community Labor United Inc	$150,000	1	n/a
Raise Up Missouri	$145,000	1	n/a
New York Taxi Workers Alliance	$141,000	2	6%
Missouri Jobs With Justice	$140,000	4	6%
A Strong Economy for All Coalition	$120,000	2	16%
Colorado People's Alliance	$117,500	3	7%
Roc	$105,000	1	n/a
North Shore Worker's Community Fund Inc	$100,000	1	14%
Hawaii Appleseed Center for Law and Economic Justice	$100,000	2	n/a
Maine People's Resource Center	$95,000	2	3%
Rutgers the State University	$90,000	3	n/a
Pennsylvania United	$75,000	1	2%
The Century Foundation Inc	$70,000	1	n/a
Economic Policy Institute	$70,000	2	1%
Spendrise Inc	$65,000	1	n/a
Young Workers United	$65,000	1	34%
Philadelphia Legal Assistance Center Inc C/O the Organization	$62,000	1	1%
Tucson Fight for 15	$60,000	1	n/a
Michigan Advocacy Program	$58,000	1	0%
Working Washington	$55,000	2	2%
Tompkins County Workers Center Inc	$51,000	2	21%
Operation Restoration	$50,400	1	1%
Arkansans for a Fair Wage	$50,200	1	n/a
Flagstaff Needs Raise Against Initiative In2017-01	$50,000	1	n/a
Tending the Soil Mn	$50,000	1	2%
Insight Center for Community Economic Development	$50,000	1	2%
Build Up Inc	$50,000	1	15%
New Orleans Workers Ctr For Racial Justice	$46,000	1	n/a
Communications Workers of America Local Union No 7777	$45,000	2	2%
Rights & Democracy Education Fund Inc	$45,000	2	4%
Columbia County Sanctuary Movement Inc	$40,800	1	3%
Minnesota Uber Lyft Drivers Association	$40,750	1	21%
Partnership For the Public Good Inc	$40,000	1	6%
National Council for Occupational Safety & Health	$40,000	2	2%
New Era Colorado Action Fund	$40,000	2	3%
New Orleans Wkrs Ctr for Racial Justice	$40,000	1	n/a
North Carolina Justice Center	$40,000	1	1%
Centro de Los Derechos del Migrante Inc	$40,000	2	1%
Policy Matters Ohio	$30,000	1	1%
Portland Jobs With Justice Education Fund	$30,000	1	29%
Community Change Inc	$30,000	1	10%
Colorado Fiscal Institute	$30,000	1	2%
Childrens Action Alliance Inc	$30,000	1	1%
Raise the Floor Alliance	$30,000	2	2%
Worker Justice Center of New York Inc	$30,000	2	1%
Texas Public Policy Foundation	$30,000	1	0%
The New School	$30,000	1	0%
Greater Boston Legal Services Inc	$30,000	1	0%
F&L Organizational Support Services	$30,000	1	34%
Georgia Union Community Fund Inc	$30,000	1	57%
Wka Inc	$30,000	1	48%
Civic Education Fund	$30,000	1	0%
Florida Policy Institute Inc	$30,000	1	2%
Organizing Neighborhood Equity	$25,000	1	3%
Dancers Group	$25,000	1	1%
United for Respect Education Fund	$25,000	1	n/a
New Jersey Working Families Alliance Corp	$25,000	1	7%
Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (Vocal-Ny) Inc	$22,500	1	n/a
Arriba Las Vegas Worker Center	$20,000	1	2%
National Day Laborer Organizing Network	$20,000	1	0%
New York Communities Organizing Fund Inc	$20,000	1	1%
Progress Now Education	$20,000	1	1%
The Commonwealth Institute for	$20,000	1	1%
Liftfund Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Missourians for Healthy Families and Fai	$20,000	1	2%
Cornell University	$15,000	1	0%
Community Service Society of New York	$12,500	1	0%
Takeaction Mn Education Fund	$12,000	1	1%
Workers' Center of Central New York Inc	$10,000	1	2%
Working Families Organization Inc	$10,000	1	0%
The Education & Training Institute Inc	$10,000	1	2%

National Employment Law Project supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 95 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 95.

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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 Charitable Foundation IncDC56.9× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · The Ford Foundation · Windward Fund · WK Kellogg Foundation · Borealis Philanthropy · Common Counsel Foundation · Solidago Foundation · Hopewell Fund · Tides Foundation · Center for Popular Democracy Inc · Tides 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.

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About National Employment Law Project

How much does National Employment Law Project give?: National Employment Law Project reported 23 grants totaling $695,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 44 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does National Employment Law Project fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (27%), Employment (25%), Civil Rights (23%).
Who are National Employment Law Project's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates of Southern California ($1.7M), Chinese Progressive Association ($1.6M), Business for a Fair Minimum Wage Inc ($1.3M).
Does National Employment Law Project fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as National Employment Law Project?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, New Venture Fund, The Ford Foundation.
Where is National Employment Law Project based?: National Employment Law Project is based in NY.