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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
Mission Launch$100,000
Starlight Ventures Corporation$100,000
Nurse on Demand LLC$25,000
Repose Birth Services LLC$25,000
Trunk of My Car Cooperative$10,000
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 (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 its 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
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
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
MO
VA
MD
DC
HI
OK
MS
TX
FL
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +18% for those 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%
+18%

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
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

  • 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%
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
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
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
11
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
12
Philadelphia Works Inc

Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is One Fair Wage Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 49 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 SettlementHISPANICS IN PHILANTHROPY: $150,000 · OtherHISPANICS IN PHILANTHROPYREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY: $150,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEYStarlight Ventures Corporation: $120,000 · OtherMT Labs LLC: $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 · EmploymentLEGAL AID JUSTICE CENTER: $75,000 · Crime & LegalMISSISSIPPI WORKERS CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $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 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 budgetWarehouse Worker Resource Center: $152,500 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetCarina: $152,500 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetHISPANICS IN PHILANTHROPY: $150,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetURBAN ASSOCIATION OF FORESTRY AND FIRE PROFESSIONALS INC: $150,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetFreefrom: $150,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetBuilding Skills Partnership: $150,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetMission Launch Inc: $120,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetFELLOWS OF THE RSA IN THE UNITED STATES: $100,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetLEGAL AID JUSTICE CENTER: $75,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetEMERGING BUILDERS INC: $75,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetMISSISSIPPI WORKERS CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $75,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetMEDICAL CENTER OF THE AMERICAS FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetChicago Food Policy Action Council: $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetURBAN AFFAIRS COALITION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTURY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWORKERS DEFENSE PROJECT: $40,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPOWERSWITCH ACTION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 budgetOPEN DOOR LEGAL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetONE FAIR WAGE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUnited for Respect Education Fund: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentro Community Partners: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHOMEBRIDGE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCreative Adventure Lab Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 2.1% 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
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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's 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
    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 49 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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