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POWERSWITCH ACTION is a national network forging collective democracy and economies in our cities and states, together with our 21 grassroots affiliates.

$4.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$404k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Community Improvement$8.4MEmployment$4.2MCivil Rights$4.0MEnvironment$3.4MHuman Services$3.3MHousing & Shelter$3.1MHealth$2.4MPublic Benefit$2.1MOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $66k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.8M
  • $250k+8 grants · $2.4M
$125,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WAREHOUSE WORKER RESOURCE CENTER$404,250
WORKING PARTNERSHIPS USA$325,833
KOREATOWN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ALLIANCE$300,000
CENTER ON POLICY INITIATIVES (CPI)$286,959
MISSOURI WORKERS CENTER$272,000
GRASSROOTS COLLABORATIVE$270,000
LA ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY$258,333
EAST BAY ALLIANCE FOR A SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY (EBASE)$255,000
CAUSE$240,000
COMMUNITY LABOR UNITED$175,000
STAND UP NASHVILLE$150,000
UNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY$150,000
POWER INTERFAITH$125,000
PUGET SOUND SAGE$125,000
GEORGIA STAND-UP$110,000
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 (FY17–25, $4.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TIDES CENTER: $165k → 10%Center on Policy Initiatives: $458k → 11%United for a New Economy: $191k → 7%UNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $338k → 10%TIDES CENTER (FISCAL SPONSOR FOR DETROIT ACTION EDUCATION FUND): $90k → 10%CENTER ON POLICY INITIATIVES: $345k → 11%United for a New Economy: $127k → 7%UNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $297k → 10%TIDES CENTER (FISCAL SPONSOR FOR DETROIT ACTION EDUCATION FUND): $90k → 10%CENTER ON POLICY INITIATIVES (CPI): $287k → 11%United for a New Economy: $124k → 7%UNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $280k → 10%DETROIT ACTION EDUCATION FUNDTIDES CENTER: $145k → 10%Center on Policy Initiatives: $262k → 11%United for a New Economy: $110k → 7%UNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $150k → 10%Center on Policy Initiatives: $258k → 11%United for a New Economy: $90k → 7%Center on Policy Initiatives: $255k → 11%Center on Policy Initiatives: $250k → 11%CENTER ON POLICY INITIATIVES (CPI): $235k → 11%CENTER ON POLICY INITIATIVES (CPI): $200k → 11%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

WA
IL
WI
NY
MA
PA
CA
CO
MO
MD
AZ
TN
DC
GA
TX
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$35M · 36 repeat orgs$668k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against -3% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
13

Total granted

$35M
$658k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
-3%

Still filing today

94%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementEmploymentPublic BenefitCivil RightsHealthEducationOther
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

  • LA
    LOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +19%
  • Working Partnerships USA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +183%
  • EB
    East Bay Alliance For A Sustainable Economy
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +97%

Funded once

  • Alliance for Global Justice Corp
    one grant, 2022 · $123k · revenue -51%
  • DR
    DEFENDING RIGHTS AND DISSENT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $97k · revenue +188%
  • MT
    Make the Road New York
    one grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue -7%
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
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
2
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
3
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…

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4
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
5
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
6
Workers Center for Racial Just Nfp

The mission of the Workers Center For Racial Justice is to eliminate structural barriers to sustainable and living wage

Civil Rights
7
Chicago Workers' Collaborative Nfp

Chicago Workers' Collaborative's mission is to promote full employment and equality for the lowest wage-earners, primarily temporary staffing workers, in the Chicago region through leadership and skills training, critical assistance and…

Education
8
Jobs With Justice Education Fund

The organization serves as a coalition of labor organizations, community groups, faith-based organizations, and student groups dedicated to protecting the rights of working people. To this end, the corporation shall engage in organizing…

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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
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
11
Center for Racial and Gender E Nfp

Workers Rights

Civil Rights
12
Coalition for Responsible and Equitable Economic Development Los Angeles

To ensure that the workers in the construction industry in Los Angeles are highly trained and professional. The organization seeks the creation of good jobs, safety for workers, health care and a secure retirement for working families.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Towards Justice of Colorado; the most unlike its peers is Transit Riders Union. 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

47 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. 47 of the 52 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.

8
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/47
Grantees still filing
31/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

POWER INTERFAITH INC: $1,873,300 · Community ImprovementPOWER INTERFAITH INCCentral Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy: $1,801,674 · Community ImprovementCentral Coast Alliance Unite…ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITIES ORGANIZED FOR RESPONSIBLE DEVELOPMENT: $1,716,700 · Community ImprovementORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITIES OR…Pittsburgh United: $1,260,000 · Community ImprovementPittsburgh UnitedKOREAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADVOCATES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1,160,307 · Community ImprovementKOREAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADV…STAND UP NASHVILLE: $622,000 · Community ImprovementSTAND UP NASHVILLE+3 more: $526,800 · Community Improvement+3 moreLOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $2,592,618 · HealthLOS ANGELES ALLIA…Working Partnerships USA: $2,580,794 · HealthWorking Partnersh…Workers Assistance Program Inc: $290,000 · Health+1 more: $149,000 · HealthWarehouse Worker Resource Center: $1,683,328 · EmploymentWarehouse Worke…ALIGN THE ALLIANCE FOR A GREATER NEW YORK INC: $1,311,211 · EmploymentALIGN THE ALLIA…Georgia Strategic Alliance for New: $1,252,457 · EmploymentGeorgia Strateg…Missouri Workers Center: $727,000 · EmploymentMissouri Worker…+2 more: $80,000 · EmploymentCENTER ON POLICY INITIATIVES: $2,549,944 · Human ServicesCENTER ON POLIC…UNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $1,706,144 · Human ServicesUNITED FOR A NE…TIDES CENTER: $670,300 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTEREast Bay Alliance For A Sustainable Economy: $2,523,274 · Public BenefitEast Bay …THE PEOPLE'S LOBBY EDUCATION INSTITUTE: $228,000 · Public BenefitTHE PEOPL…Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund: $150,000 · Public Benefit+2 more: $115,000 · Public BenefitCOMMUNITY LABOR UNITED INC: $2,340,369 · Civil RightsTOWARDS JUSTICE OF COLORADO: $200,000 · Civil RightsAction Center on Race & the Economy Institute: $160,000 · Civil RightsDEFENDING RIGHTS AND DISSENT INC: $96,500 · Civil Rights+1 more: $42,000 · Civil RightsGrassroots Collaborative: $1,491,633 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $180,000 · EducationUnited for Respect Education Fund: $142,000 · Education+1 more: $50,000 · EducationSTAND UP NASHVILLE: $700,000 · OtherSTAND UP NAS…CITIZEN ACTION OF WISCONSIN INC: $443,500 · OtherCITIZEN ACTI…AMERICAN FED OF LABOR & CONGRESS: $200,000 · OtherPUGET SOUND SAGE: $1,649,911 · OtherPUGET SOUND …NEW ECONOMY FOR WORKING HOUSTON: $345,000 · OtherNEW ECONOMY …+11 more: $653,829 · Other+11 more
Community Improvement$8,960,781Health$5,612,412Employment$5,053,996Human Services$4,926,388Public Benefit$3,016,274Civil Rights$2,838,869Education$1,863,633Other$3,992,240

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 budgetLOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $2,592,618 over 9y, 12% of budgetWorking Partnerships USA: $2,580,794 over 9y, 10% of budgetCENTER ON POLICY INITIATIVES: $2,549,944 over 9y, 22% of budgetEast Bay Alliance For A Sustainable Economy: $2,523,274 over 9y, 21% of budgetCOMMUNITY LABOR UNITED INC: $2,340,369 over 9y, 38% of budgetPOWER INTERFAITH INC: $1,873,300 over 9y, 13% of budgetCentral Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy: $1,801,674 over 9y, 11% of budgetORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITIES ORGANIZED FOR RESPONSIBLE DEVELOPMENT: $1,716,700 over 8y, 37% of budgetUNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $1,706,144 over 9y, 31% of budgetWarehouse Worker Resource Center: $1,683,328 over 7y, 16% of budgetPUGET SOUND SAGE: $1,649,911 over 9y, 23% of budgetGrassroots Collaborative: $1,491,633 over 7y, 53% of budgetALIGN THE ALLIANCE FOR A GREATER NEW YORK INC: $1,311,211 over 9y, 17% of budgetPittsburgh United: $1,260,000 over 8y, 57% of budgetGeorgia Strategic Alliance for New: $1,252,457 over 9y, 27% of budgetKOREAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADVOCATES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1,160,307 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetMissouri Workers Center: $727,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $670,300 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSTAND UP NASHVILLE: $622,000 over 4y, 32% of budgetCITIZEN ACTION OF WISCONSIN INC: $443,500 over 6y, 8.8% of budgetNEW ECONOMY FOR WORKING HOUSTON: $345,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetWorkers Assistance Program Inc: $290,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetWORKER POWER INSTITUTE: $238,800 over 6y, 10% of budgetTHE PEOPLE'S LOBBY EDUCATION INSTITUTE: $228,000 over 3y, 9.6% of budgetTOWARDS JUSTICE OF COLORADO: $200,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetAMERICAN FED OF LABOR & CONGRESS: $200,000 over 2y, 77% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $180,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAction Center on Race & the Economy Institute: $160,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $153,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmericans for Financial Reform Education Fund: $150,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $149,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUnited for Respect Education Fund: $142,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetNew York Communities Organizing Fund Inc: $135,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetWorksafe Inc: $131,500 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetAlliance for Global Justice Corp: $123,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDEFENDING RIGHTS AND DISSENT INC: $96,500 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetSTEP FORWARD FOUNDATION: $82,900 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetMake the Road New York: $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCITIZEN ACTION OF WISCONSIN EDUCATION FUND INC: $65,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL EMPLOYMENT LAW PROJECT: $48,750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDEMAND PROGRESS EDUCATION FUND: $42,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTRANSIT RIDERS UNION: $40,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetPHILADELPHIA AREA JOBS WITH JUSTICE: $40,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetCLEAN WATER FUND: $20,700 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAction Center on Race and the Economy: $13,000 over 1y, 14% 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.

  • Who funds LOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY ↗
  • Who funds Working Partnerships USA ↗
  • Who funds CENTER ON POLICY INITIATIVES ↗
  • Who funds East Bay Alliance For A Sustainable Economy ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY LABOR UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds POWER INTERFAITH INC ↗
  • Who funds Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy ↗
  • Who funds ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITIES ORGANIZED FOR RESPONSIBLE DEVELOPMENT ↗
  • Who funds UNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY ↗
  • Who funds Warehouse Worker Resource Center ↗
  • Who funds PUGET SOUND SAGE ↗
  • Who funds Grassroots Collaborative ↗
  • Who funds ALIGN THE ALLIANCE FOR A GREATER NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds Pittsburgh United ↗
  • Who funds Georgia Strategic Alliance for New ↗
  • Who funds KOREAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADVOCATES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds Missouri Workers Center ↗
  • Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
  • Who funds STAND UP NASHVILLE ↗
  • Who funds CITIZEN ACTION OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW ECONOMY FOR WORKING HOUSTON ↗
  • Who funds Workers Assistance Program Inc ↗
  • Who funds WORKER POWER INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds THE PEOPLE'S LOBBY EDUCATION INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds TOWARDS JUSTICE OF COLORADO ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FED OF LABOR & CONGRESS ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Action Center on Race & the Economy Institute ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund ↗
  • Who funds CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds United for Respect Education Fund ↗
  • Who funds New York Communities Organizing Fund Inc ↗
  • Who funds Worksafe Inc ↗
  • Who funds Alliance for Global Justice Corp ↗
  • Who funds DEFENDING RIGHTS AND DISSENT INC ↗
  • Who funds STEP FORWARD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Make the Road New York ↗

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.

Windward FundAmalgamated Charitabl…Tides FoundationNew Venture FundMarguerite Casey Foun…United States Energy …Solidago FoundationTides CenterProteus Fund IncSolutions Project IncNEO Philanthropy IncWorking Partnerships …
Windward FundDC46.8× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Windward Fund · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · New Venture Fund · Marguerite Casey Foundation · United States Energy Foundation · Solidago Foundation · Tides Center · Proteus Fund Inc · Solutions Project Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Working Partnerships USA

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 Powerswitch Action funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Powerswitch Action. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Community Labor United Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 52 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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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home