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UFW Foundation
The UFW Foundation's mission is to empower communities to ensure human dignity.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 3 grants below total $2,733,746 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $14,453,821 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $11,720,075 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2020
- $50k–250k1 grant · $127k
- $250k+2 grants · $2.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Immigrant Legal Defense | $1,680,299 |
| Individual grant recipient | $926,258 |
| Centro La Familia Advocacy Se | $127,189 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2020, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $926k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- ILIMMIGRANT LEGAL DEFENSE2× · 2019–2020 · $2.7M · revenue ×19 · 61% of their budget
- EAEducation and Leadership Foundation2× · 2018–2019 · $765k · revenue +182% · 25% of their budget
- CLCentro La Familia Advocacy Services INC3× · 2018–2020 · $626k · revenue +142%
Funded once
- CACommunity Action Boardgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $438k · revenue +223%
- UFUNITED FARM WORKERS OF AMERICAone grant, 2018 · $104k · revenue +20%
CASA FAMILIAR INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $53k · revenue +219%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Colectiva Legal del Pueblo is a non-hierarchal collective organization founded for and by undocumented immigrants working to build community leadership and power for migrant justice through legal services, advocacy and education.
Provide Educational Programs, Health Services and Legal Services to Farm Workers at housing sites and throughout the Salinas Valley and promote improved living conditions.
Centro Legal De La Raza is a comprehensive legal services agency protecting and advancing the rights of low-income immigrant communities throguh culturally competent bilingual legal representation, education, and advocacy.
Provide free or low cost legal assistance to latino asylum-seekers.
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…
La Raza Centro Legal San Francisco provides high quality, highly trusted, free legal services to low-income or immigrant clients in the San Francisco Bay Area.
To provide civil legal services to low-income individuals and to promote equal access to the justice system through advocacy, legal counseling, innovative self-help services, in depth legal representation, community education, and economic…
The organization's primary mission is to provide immigration legal services and community education about immigration law. this involves legal representation to the low-income immigrant community, including help to those brought to the us…
Educate workers on their rights,develope leadership in the immigrant community, organize and support al workers as they fight for their rights in the workplace and for changing policies policies that increase standards for all workers.
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.
We are dedicated to empowering the Latino community in Utah to recognize and achieve their own potential and become a positive force for change in the larger community.
The California Lawyers Foundation shares a common mission with the California Lawyers Association of promoting excellence, diversity, and inclusion in the legal profession and fairness in the administration of justice and the rule of law.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Centro La Familia Advocacy Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Youth 2 Leaders Education Foundatio. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 13 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds IMMIGRANT LEGAL DEFENSE ↗
- Who funds Education and Leadership Foundation ↗
- Who funds Centro La Familia Advocacy Services INC ↗
- Who funds Community Action Board ↗
- Who funds Centro Binacional Para El Desarrollo Indigena Oaxaqueno ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CALIFORNIA LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED FARM WORKERS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CASA FAMILIAR INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH 2 LEADERS EDUCATION FOUNDATIO ↗
- Who funds Organizacion en California de Lideres Campesinas Inc ↗
- Who funds MI FAMILIA EN ACCION ↗
- Who funds Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Immigrant Legal Resource Center · The California Endowment · Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc · Latino Community Foundation · Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management · East Bay Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Public Health Institute · California Immigrant Policy Center · California Access to Justice Commission · Women's Foundation of California · Sunlight Giving
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 UFW Foundation 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.
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.
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