How much did NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT LAW PROJECT grant in FY2024?

Crime & Legal$6.2MCommunity Improvement$5.1MEmployment$2.2MHealth$1.8MHuman Services$1.6MEducation$931kCivil Rights$566kPublic Benefit$443kYouth Development$105kOther$3.1M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

policymakersprogram-relatedminimum wagesolutionsjusticepolicyfight

2019

grassroots leadershipprogram-relatedparticipationrestaurantminimum wagecopastatewide

2020

servesaccessdancedevelopinglabor standardsprogram-relatedworkplace

2021

defensedignityracismstudentspolicy solutionsprogram-relatedconditions

2022

advancing nelp'snelp's partners

2023

advancing nelp'snelp's partners

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k22 grants · $565k
$50k–250k1 grant · $130k

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$20M

Total assets

Largest grants

BUSINESS FOR A FAIR MINIMUM WAGE INC$130,000
PEOPLE'S LOBBY EDUCATION INSTITUTE$40,750
MINNESOTA UBERLYFT DRIVERS ASSN$40,750
WORKERS DEFENSE PROJECT$33,000
GRASSROOTS LAW AND ORGANIZING FOR WORKERS$33,000
PILIPINO WORKERS CENTER$33,000
FAIR WORK CENTER$33,000
CINCINNATI INTERFAITH WORKERS CENTER$33,000
NEW ERA COLORADO ACTION FUND$30,000
ALIGN THE ALLIANCE FOR A GREATER NEW YORK$28,500
COMMUNICATIONS WORKERS OF AMERICAL LOCAL 7777$25,000
WECOUNT$25,000
WORKING WASHINGTONFAIR WORK CENTER$25,000
MIAMI WORKERS CENTER$25,000
NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY & HEALTH$20,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 11%. 63% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 42% of NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT LAW PROJECT’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 9% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 4% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT LAW PROJECTlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$19M · 55 repeat orgs$2.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +78% since the first grant, against +74% for the ones you funded once.

55 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$19M

$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%

+74%

Still filing today

95%

84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Crime & LegalCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesEmploymentEducationCivil 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

KI
KOREATOWN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ASSOCIATION
5× · 2017–2022 · $1.7M · revenue +299%
CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION
6× · 2017–2022 · $1.6M · revenue +494%
MC
MAINTENANCE COOPERATION TRUST FUND
7× · 2017–2023 · $770k · revenue +82%

Funded once

COMMUNITY CHANGEgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue +222%
LA
LEGAL AID SOCIETYgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue +30%
UO
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS-BOARD OF TRUSTEES
one grant, 2023 · $175k

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.

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

Equal Justice Center

The Equal Justice Center is a non-profit law firm and employment justice organization which empowers low-income families, workers, and communities to achieve fair treatment in the workplace, in the justice system, and in our shared society…

Civil Rights

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

Colorado Jobs With Justice Inc

Advance workers rights & social justice through building sustained relationships and taking direct action to create concrete change in the lives of working families

Employment

Philadelphia Area Jobs With Justice

Building support for the rights of working people through coalitions of labor and community and through public education.

Employment

LaborLab

LaborLab is the nations sole watchdog dedicated to safeguarding workers right to organize through unions, collective bargaining, and mutual aid. We empower thousands of workers annually by offering educational resources and holding…

Human Services

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

United for a Fair Economy Inc

United for a Fair Economy challenges the concentration of wealth and power by using popular economics education, trainings and creative communications to support social movements working for a resilient, sustainable and equitable economy.

Social Science

Justice for the People Legal Center

The Justice for the People Legal Center is working to bring a local organizing approach to the legal world and protect tenants against predatory landlords.

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Equal Justice Works

Mobilizing passionate public service leaders.

Crime & Legal

Los Angeles Section National Council of

Advancing economic justice and equity for working women in los angeles.

Community Improvement

Laborers International Union of State of Mi

Collective bargaining and representation

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voices of Community Activists & Leaders and the most unlike its peers is Tides Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%3/113

the rest of the field

11%

206,162/1,819,452

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.

06the grantee network

103 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

101/103

Grantees still filing

73/103

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Crime & Legal$6,158,310Community Improvement$5,072,000Other$4,226,700Employment$2,212,427Health$1,832,500Human Services$1,592,600Education$931,000

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

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 IncDC63.9× affinity41 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 · Solidago Foundation · Borealis Philanthropy · Windward Fund · Equal Justice Works · Tides Foundation · Center for Popular Democracy Inc · Proteus Fund Inc · Hopewell Fund · Tides Center

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 organisation NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT LAW PROJECT 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

10get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BUSINESS FOR A FAIR MINIMUM WAGE INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~0 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 825423675 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on BUSINESS FOR A FAIR MINIMUM WAGE INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 0 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 73% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to National Employment Law Project?

Find your warmest path to National Employment Law Project through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT LAW PROJECT

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

103 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to National Employment Law Project?

More from the funding graph

NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT LAW PROJECT

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

103 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to National Employment Law Project?

More from the funding graph