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Pilipino Workers Center of Southern

Pwc was established on the idea that all people and communities have rights to a health, dignified quality of life.

$761k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$219k
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, FY2021 to 2025.

Employment$1.2MCommunity Improvement$495kEducation$187kHuman Services$157kCivil Rights$126kHousing & Shelter$23k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $527,975, the rows itemized in this filing. The $760,759 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $232,784 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $64k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $464k
$70,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Democracy at Work$219,000
THE ICA GROUP$174,975
COALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGH$70,000
BEND THE ARC$40,000
UNITED DOMESTIC WORKER ALLIANCE$24,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 41% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%Mujeres Unidas Y Activas: $26k → 10%GARMENT WORKER CENTER: $18k → 14%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.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 5 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
9

Total granted

$1.2M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+32%

Still filing today

100%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’23’24’25
Civil RightsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEmploymentPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • DA
    DEMOCRACY AT WORK INSTITUTE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $519k · revenue -40%
  • TI
    THE ICA GROUP INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $425k · revenue +131%
  • CF
    COALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS
    2× · 2024–2025 · $93k · revenue -21%

Funded once

  • KI
    KOREAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADVOCATES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
    one grant, 2021 · $347k · revenue -1%
  • P
    POWER
    one grant, 2021 · $187k
  • CP
    COMMUNITY PARTNERSgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $148k · revenue +73%
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
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
Latino Union of Chicago

Latino Union works to defend the rights and dignity of contingent workers, including the right to immigrate, work, live free of oppression and violence, and provide for oneself and one's family.

Human Services
4
Cooperation L a

The L.A. Co-op Lab is a collective that builds capacity for worker ownership in Los Angeles as a pathway toward a more equitable and democratic economy.

Arts & Culture
5
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
6
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
7
Los Angeles Black Worker Center

The mission of the Los Angeles Black Worker Center is to increase access to quality jobs, reduce employment discrimination, and improve industries that employ black workers through action and unionization.

Employment
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
LaborLab

LaborLab is a nonprofit watchdog dedicated to safeguarding workers rights to organize, win strong contracts, and build lasting collective power. Through strategic research, educational resources, and corporate accountability, we empower…

Human Services
10
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
11
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
12
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates Inc

Asian Immigrant Women Advocates empowers low-income, limited English speaking immigrant women and youth through education, leadership development and civic participation programs.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mission Action Inc. 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

13 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. 13 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
6/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE ICA GROUP INC: $424,975 · OtherTHE ICA GROUP INCPOWER: $186,905 · OtherPOWERRESTAURANT OPPORTUNITIES CENTERS UNITED INC: $125,681 · OtherRESTAURANT OPPORTUNITIES CENTERS UNITED I…UNITED DOMESTIC WORKERS OF AMERICA: $54,000 · OtherUNITED DOMESTIC WORKERS OF AMERICA+1 more: $10,000 · OtherDEMOCRACY AT WORK INSTITUTE: $519,000 · EmploymentDEMOCRACY AT WORK INSTITUT…KOREAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADVOCATES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $346,951 · Community ImprovementKOREAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS …COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $147,593 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY PARTNERSNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $126,000 · Civil RightsNational Do…COALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS: $93,000 · Civil RightsCOALITION F…BEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE: $90,000 · PhilanthropyMujeres Unidas y Activas: $26,000 · Human ServicesGarment Worker Center: $17,868 · Human ServicesMISSION ACTION INC: $23,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$801,561Employment$519,000Community Improvement$494,544Civil Rights$219,000Philanthropy$90,000Human Services$43,868Housing & Shelter$23,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDEMOCRACY AT WORK INSTITUTE: $519,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetTHE ICA GROUP INC: $424,975 over 2y, 20% of budgetKOREAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADVOCATES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $346,951 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $147,593 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $126,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRESTAURANT OPPORTUNITIES CENTERS UNITED INC: $125,681 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCOALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS: $93,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE: $90,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED DOMESTIC WORKERS OF AMERICA: $54,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMujeres Unidas y Activas: $26,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMISSION ACTION INC: $23,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGarment Worker Center: $17,868 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetINSTITUTO DE EDUCACION POPULAR DEL SUR DE CALIFORNIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

The James Irvine Foun…Solidago FoundationTides CenterLiberty Hill Foundati…Weingart FoundationTides FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The James Irvine FoundationCA17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The James Irvine Foundation · Solidago Foundation · Tides Center · Liberty Hill Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Tides Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Pilipino Workers Center of Southern funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pilipino Workers Center of Southern. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Pilipino Workers Center of Southern?

    Find your warmest path to Pilipino Workers Center of Southern 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 14 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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