· Public charity
Social Justice and Solidarity Fund
The Funds mission is to provide sustained support to grassroots organizing projects and movements rooted in the multi-racial working class which rely on their members and constituency to build power in the community.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $677k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Labor Ed & Research Project | $189,000 |
| UAWD Mutual Aid Fund | $186,860 |
| Teamster Rank File Legal Def | $106,000 |
| EWR & File Ed Defense Fund | $85,000 |
| Essential Workers for Demo | $60,000 |
| Assoc for Union Democracy Inc | $50,000 |
| ACRE Institute | $25,000 |
| Fdn of the Causcus REF Worker | $20,000 |
| New York Taxi Worker Alliance | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $180k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LELABOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH PROJECT4× · 2022–2025 · $405k · revenue +3%
- TRTEAMSTER RANK AND FILE EDUCATION AND LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $279k · revenue +94%
- NYNew York Taxi Workers Alliance3× · 2023–2025 · $55k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- URUE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +126%
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.
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.
To secure and maintain a better union, an informed and empowered membership, and the democratic direct election of strong, well-qualified, and honest leaders to all of our union offices, UAWD works now and will continue to work to…
Unity and solidarity among railroaders, and ensure democracy and transparency in our unions
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…
The National Legal Advocacy Network d/b/a Grassroots Law & Organizing for Workers is a legal non-profit organization dedicated to using legal strategies as a tool to build power for marginalized workers and create systemic change through…
Aid and assist affiliated organizations by extending the benefits of mutual assistance and collective bargaining; and to promote union organization through education and policy.
The laborers' eastern region political education fund (the organization") was established to promote the political education of laborers in the eastern region. the organization is funded by an apportionment of the dues and fees paid to the…
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…
Afl-cio union lawyers alliance was established to better the conditions of working men and women and their families by enhancing the quality of legal representation that is available to the afl-cio and the national and international unions…
Labor union - electrical workers
Organization and representation of workers
Drivers Union is a nonprofit organization that advances justice and fairness for gig economy workers, most of whom are immigrants and refugees, through organizing, education, advocacy, and free legal support.
Educate/Advocate for historically marginalized groups.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 10 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 LABOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH PROJECT ↗
- Who funds TEAMSTER RANK AND FILE EDUCATION AND LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UAWD MUTUAL AID FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ESSENTIAL WORKERS FOR DEMOCRACY ↗
- Who funds New York Taxi Workers Alliance ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR UNION DEMOCRACY INC ↗
- Who funds Action Center on Race & the Economy Institute ↗
- Who funds UE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FUND ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Social Justice and Solidarity Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Social Justice and Solidarity Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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