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The Workers Lab

The Workers Labs purpose is to give new ideas about increasing worker power a genuine changce to succeed and flourish.

$362k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Employment$1.4MHuman Services$368kPublic Safety & Disaster$340kPhilanthropy$270kScience & Tech$245kCrime & Legal$220kCommunity Improvement$186kHealth$165kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $300k
$100,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MT Labs LLC$100,000
Starlight Ventures Corporation$100,000
Mission Launch$100,000
Repose Birth Services LLC$25,000
Nurse on Demand LLC$25,000
Trunk of My Car Cooperative$10,000
02The need
03

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 (FY20–24, $448k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 66% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FreeFrom: $150k → 14%Carina Care: $153k → 9%Mission Launch: $100k → 19%African Communities Together: $25k → 17%Mission Launch Inc: $20k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
IL
WI
NY
MA
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
MO
VA
MD
DC
HI
OK
MS
TX
FL

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

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.

16%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$630k · 8 repeat orgs$3.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
40

Total granted

$630k
$3.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+23%

Still filing today

38%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementEmploymentCivil RightsCrime & LegalPhilanthropyOther

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

  • ML
    Mission Launch Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $120k · revenue +362%
  • FO
    FELLOWS OF THE RSA IN THE UNITED STATES
    2× · 2021–2022 · $100k · revenue +21%
  • TC
    THE CENTURY FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $50k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • CA
    Capital Access Strategies
    one grant, 2021 · $900k
  • WW
    Warehouse Worker Resource Center
    one grant, 2021 · $153k · revenue +23%
  • C
    Carinagraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $153k · revenue +74%

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.

1
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
2
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
3
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
4
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

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
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
7
United States Federation for Worker Cooperation

To build a thriving ecosystem for worker-owned and controlled businesses - and their cooperative leaders - to power movements for racial justice and economic democracy.

Employment
8
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
9
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…

—
10
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
11
Working Partnerships Usa

Working Partnerships USA is a community organization bringing together the power of grassroots organizing and public policy innovation to drive the movement for a just economy. We build the capacity of workers, low-income neighborhoods and…

Health
12
The Workers Lab

The Workers Labs purpose is to give new ideas about increasing worker power a genuine changce to succeed and flourish. We envison a society where workers are powerful drivers of economic, social, and political transformation. To bring…

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is One Fair Wage Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Workers Lab Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Immigrant Worker SupportDomestic Violence ServicesPolicy Research and Advocacy
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 15 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%18%5–10yr19%46%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr13%6%35–55yr16%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%25%5–10yr19%39%10–20yr16%12%20–35yr13%8%35–55yr16%15%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/49
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,516

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.

04the grantee network

31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 49 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/31
Grantees still filing
19/31
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Capital Access Strategies — $900,000 · OtherCapital Access StrategiesDriver's Seat Cooperative LCA — $152,500 · OtherDriver's Seat Cooperative LCAHenry Street Settlement — $150,000 · OtherHenry Street SettlementREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY — $150,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEYHISPANICS IN PHILANTHROPY — $150,000 · OtherHISPANICS IN PHILANTHROPYMT Labs LLC — $120,000 · OtherStarlight Ventures Corporation — $120,000 · Other+26 more — $806,207 · Other+26 moreCarina — $152,500 · Human ServicesCarinaFreefrom — $150,000 · Human ServicesFreefromMission Launch Inc — $120,000 · Human ServicesMission Launc…AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesAFRICAN COMMU…Warehouse Worker Resource Center — $152,500 · EmploymentBuilding Skills Partnership — $150,000 · Employment+1 more — $5,000 · EmploymentMISSISSIPPI WORKERS CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC — $75,000 · Crime & LegalLEGAL AID JUSTICE CENTER — $75,000 · Crime & LegalOPEN DOOR LEGAL — $25,000 · Crime & LegalURBAN ASSOCIATION OF FORESTRY AND FIRE PROFESSIONALS INC — $150,000 · Public Safety & DisasterFELLOWS OF THE RSA IN THE UNITED STATES — $100,000 · PhilanthropyTHE VICTOR PINEDA FOUNDATION DBA WORLD ENABLED — $25,000 · PhilanthropyHOPEWELL FUND — $20,000 · PhilanthropyEMERGING BUILDERS INC — $75,000 · Food & NutritionChicago Food Policy Action Council — $50,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$2,548,707Human Services$447,500Employment$307,500Crime & Legal$175,000Public Safety & Disaster$150,000Philanthropy$145,000Food & Nutrition$125,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWarehouse Worker Resource Center — $152,500 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetCarina — $152,500 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetFreefrom — $150,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetURBAN ASSOCIATION OF FORESTRY AND FIRE PROFESSIONALS INC — $150,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetBuilding Skills Partnership — $150,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetHISPANICS IN PHILANTHROPY — $150,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMission Launch Inc — $120,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetFELLOWS OF THE RSA IN THE UNITED STATES — $100,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetMISSISSIPPI WORKERS CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC — $75,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetEMERGING BUILDERS INC — $75,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetMEDICAL CENTER OF THE AMERICAS FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetLEGAL AID JUSTICE CENTER — $75,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE CENTURY FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetChicago Food Policy Action Council — $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetURBAN AFFAIRS COALITION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORKERS DEFENSE PROJECT — $40,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPOWERSWITCH ACTION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOPEN DOOR LEGAL — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE VICTOR PINEDA FOUNDATION DBA WORLD ENABLED — $25,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetCINCINNATI UNION COOPERATIVE INITIATIVE — $25,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetAFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCentro Community Partners — $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetONE FAIR WAGE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCreative Adventure Lab Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited for Respect Education Fund — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOMEBRIDGE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Workers Lab INC — $15,207 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetGREATER DAYTON UNION COOPERATIVE INITIATIVE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCONSORTIUM FOR WORKER EDUCATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Charitabl…Tides FoundationWK Kellogg FoundationThe Ford FoundationRockefeller Philanthr…Silicon Valley Commun…The San Francisco Fou…The James Irvine Foun…New Venture FundNational Employment L…New Profit IncThe Sobrato Family Fo…
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC22.9× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · New Venture Fund · National Employment Law Project · New Profit Inc · The Sobrato Family Foundation

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 organization The Workers Lab 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 49 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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