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· Public charity

Unite Here

To protect the rights of working people throughout the u.s.

$20M
Granted FY2024still arriving
55
Grants FY2024still arriving
18
States reached
$11M
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Employment$86MCivil Rights$39MMembership Benefit$2.4MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.3MPublic Benefit$598kHealth$411kEducation$327kCommunity Improvement$268kOther$0
02FY2024 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $297k
  • $50k–250k20 grants · $2.4M
  • $250k+10 grants · $17M
$50,000
Median grant
18
States reached
$211M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITE HERE PAC$10,600,000
LOCAL 023-UNITE HERE$1,621,183
LOCAL 002-SAN FRANCISCO CA$1,069,018
LOCAL 011-LOS ANGELESORANGE COUNTY CA AND ARIZONA$899,965
LOCAL 049-SACRAMENTO CA$645,397
LOCAL 005-HONOLULU HI$533,572
UNITE HERE TIP STATE & LOCAL FUND$500,000
LOCAL 025-WASHINGTON DC$488,710
LOCAL 017-MINNEAPOLIS-ST PAUL MN$394,499
YES ON MEASURE RW - WORKER POWER LONG BEACH SPONSORED BY UNITE HERE LOCAL 1$300,000
LOCAL 008-WA AND OR$241,399
LOCAL 001-CHICAGO IL$201,586
LOCAL 100-NEW YORK NY$193,265
LOCAL 054-ATLANTIC CITY NJ$178,138
LOCAL 024-DETROIT MI AND OHIO$167,352
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 (FY17–24, $191k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NILC Immigrant Justice Fund: $20k → 14%National Partnership For New Americans: $50k → 14%NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW AMERICANS: $33k → 14%NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW AMERICANS: $25k → 14%National Partnership for new Americans: $20k → 14%National Partnership For New Americans: $15k → 14%CARECEN: $9k → 14%INSTITUTE FOR ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LEADERSHIP AN: $10k → 14%APALA: $10k → 14%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

AK
WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
HI
LA
AL
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$127M · 67 repeat orgs$4.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

67 repeat relationships: 42 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

67
60

Total granted

$127M
$3.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+3%

Still filing today

88%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $609k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsHealthEducationEmploymentHuman ServicesPublic BenefitOther
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

  • AC
    AIRPORT CONCESSIONS & INFLIGHT LOCAL 23
    6× · 2017–2024 · $8.9M · revenue +125% · 38% of their budget
  • UH
    UNITE HERE LOCAL UNION 226 CULINARY WORKERS UNION LOCAL 226
    5× · 2017–2023 · $8.2M · revenue +33%
  • UH
    UNITE HERE LOCAL 11
    5× · 2020–2024 · $7.5M · revenue +77% · 30% of their budget

Funded once

  • NH
    NY hotel and Motel Trades Cou
    one grant, 2017 · $1.0M
  • CF
    CITIZENS FOR A RESPONSIBLE ANAHEIM SPONSORED BY UNITE HERE LOCAL 11
    one grant, 2023 · $450k · revenue -24% · 48% of their budget
  • CT
    Coalition to Protect Riders and Drivers sponsored by the CA Labor Federation AFL-CIO
    one grant, 2020 · $375k
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
Laborers International Union of 341 Hcl

Union hall devoted to the betterment of members compensation and working conditions, to secure recognition of workers rights to engage in collective bargaining, and to promote the development and maintenance of on-the-job safety practices…

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2
Laborers International Union of North America - Local 1076

The local is a nonprofit organization established to represent its members in wage and fringe benefits matters in the construction industry. the local's primary areas of jurisdiction are oakland and livingston counties.

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3
International Union of Operating Engineers Local 825ABCDRRH

The work of the union, as the representative of its members, is to provide for the continuous employment of labor, to bring about stable conditions in the industry, and to establish necessary procedures for resolutions of disputes between…

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4
Laborers International Union of State of Mi

Collective bargaining and representation

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5
Laborer's International Union of North a

A fraternal labor organization whose purpose is to promote employment of members in a safe work environment and ensurefair labor practices.

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6
Unite Here

To protect the rights of working people throughout the u.s. & canada (see schedule o)

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7
Unite Here Iu Local No 54

To organize all workers for the economic, moral and social advancement of their condition and status.

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8
Laborers' International Union of North America Laborers' Local #43

Promote and protect the interests of the members of the local

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9
International Union of Operating Engineers Local 564

Local labor union was established to promote & protect the interests of its membership with regard to social & working conditions encourages a higher standard of skill and employment. the local union is involved in collecive bargaining and…

Employment
10
Laborers' International Union of North America

To improve working conditions and living standards of members through collective bargaining, education, training, and employee benefits.

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11
Laborers International Union of North America

Representing members in matters of collective bargaining.

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12
Laborers International Union of Na Sewer and Tunnel Miners Union Local 2

Secure fair compensation and working conditions for all members.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Unite Here Local 7; the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United 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

118 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. 118 of the 139 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.

34
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
112/118
Grantees still filing
74/118
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITE HERE PAC: $34,350,000 · OtherUNITE HERE PACAIRPORT CONCESSIONS & INFLIGHT LOCAL 23: $8,913,309 · OtherAIRPORT CONCESSIONS & INFLIGHT LOCAL 23UNITE HERE LOCAL UNION 226 CULINARY WORKERS UNION LOCAL 226: $8,183,202 · OtherUNITE HERE LOCAL UNION 226 CULINARY WORKERS UNION LOCAL 226UNITE HERE LOCAL 11: $7,469,561 · OtherUNITE HERE LOCAL 11UNITE HERE LOCAL 2: $6,172,335 · OtherHOTELGAMINGRESTAURANT & CLUB EMPLOYEES & BARTENDERS UNION LOCAL 6 AFL-CIO: $6,164,145 · Other+93 more: $55,876,290 · Other+93 moreUnite Here Local 8: $1,899,584 · EmploymentCITIZENS FOR A BETTER LOS ANGELES 2022 SPONSORED BY UNITE HERE LOCAL 11: $131,050 · EmploymentJobs with Justice Education Fund: $80,000 · Employment+3 more: $90,000 · EmploymentCITIZENS FOR A RESPONSIBLE ANAHEIM SPONSORED BY UNITE HERE LOCAL 11: $450,000 · Public BenefitCITIZENS FOR A SUSTAINABLE LAGUNA BEACH: $300,000 · Public BenefitDEMOS A NETWORK FOR IDEAS AND ACTION LTD: $58,000 · Public Benefit+2 more: $20,000 · Public BenefitWorking Partnerships USA: $210,000 · HealthLOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $110,000 · HealthCANDLELIGHTERS FOR CHILDHOOD CANCER: $53,500 · HealthMARYLAND CITIZENS' HEALTH INITIATIVE INC: $50,000 · HealthAMERICA'S AGENDA HEALTH CARE FOR ALL: $25,000 · Health+2 more: $20,000 · HealthCATHOLIC LEGAL IMMIGRATION NETWORK INC: $106,000 · Civil RightsCONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Civil RightsBETTER JOBS FOR ALASKA INC: $50,000 · Civil RightsAMERICA'S VOICE: $50,000 · Civil RightsPRIDE AT WORK AFL-CIO: $40,000 · Civil RightsClergy and Laity United for Economic Justice: $37,500 · Civil RightsLOCAL PROGRESS POLICY ACTION: $29,500 · Civil RightsNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $20,000 · Civil RightsAFL-CIO TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE: $20,000 · Civil RightsTEXAS NEW ERA CENTER JOBS WITH JUSTICE: $19,000 · Civil Rights+4 more: $41,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW AMERICANS: $142,505 · Human ServicesNILC IMMIGRANT JUSTICE FUND: $20,000 · Human ServicesINSTITUTE FOR ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LEADERSHIP AND ADVANCEMENT: $10,000 · Human ServicesCharity Navigator: $10,000 · Human ServicesCentral American Resource Center - CARECEN - of California: $8,500 · Human ServicesNEW HAVEN RISING INC: $108,100 · Community ImprovementORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITIES ORGANIZED FOR RESPONSIBLE DEVELOPMENT: $40,000 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE: $20,000 · Community Improvement
Other$127,128,842Employment$2,200,634Public Benefit$828,000Health$468,500Civil Rights$463,000Human Services$191,005Community Improvement$168,100

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 budgetAIRPORT CONCESSIONS & INFLIGHT LOCAL 23: $8,913,309 over 6y, 38% of budgetUNITE HERE LOCAL UNION 226 CULINARY WORKERS UNION LOCAL 226: $8,183,202 over 5y, 19% of budgetUNITE HERE LOCAL 11: $7,469,561 over 5y, 30% of budgetUNITE HERE LOCAL 2: $6,172,335 over 5y, 34% of budgetHOTELGAMINGRESTAURANT & CLUB EMPLOYEES & BARTENDERS UNION LOCAL 6 AFL-CIO: $6,164,145 over 4y, 34% of budgetUNITE-HERE LOCAL NO 1: $4,139,547 over 4y, 35% of budgetUNITE HERE LOCAL 100: $4,050,211 over 6y, 27% of budgetUNITE HERE LOCAL 737: $3,633,022 over 5y, 32% of budgetUNITE HERE LOCAL 5: $3,603,735 over 5y, 24% of budgetNEW ENGLAND JOINT BOARD UNITE HERE: $3,096,034 over 5y, 32% of budgetUNITE HERE LOCAL 26: $3,013,985 over 5y, 26% of budgetUNITE HERE UNION LOCAL NUMBER 25: $2,968,923 over 5y, 29% of budgetUNITE HERE IU LOCAL NO 54: $2,925,427 over 5y, 34% of budgetUNITE HERE LOCAL 49: $2,352,339 over 5y, 24% of budgetUNITE HERE LOCAL 24: $2,194,766 over 5y, 36% of budgetUnite Here Local 8: $1,899,584 over 5y, 29% of budgetUNITE HERE LOCAL 30: $1,840,144 over 4y, 37% of budgetUNITE HERE LOCAL 17: $1,594,601 over 5y, 38% of budgetHotel Employees Restaurant Employees Local Union 19: $1,531,787 over 4y, 19% of budgetUNITE HERE LOCAL 355: $1,484,958 over 5y, 31% of budgetUNITE HERE LOCAL 362: $1,379,370 over 5y, 23% of budgetUNITE HERE LOCAL 274: $1,197,612 over 5y, 35% of budgetUNITE HERE 217 LOCAL: $1,054,203 over 5y, 34% of budget610 GWU LOCAL DE PUERTO RICO: $897,640 over 4y, 57% of budgetUNITE HERE 165 LOCAL BARTENDERS INT AFFILIATED UNITE HERE INTL UNION: $720,702 over 2y, 21% of budgetUNITE HERE LOCAL 74: $674,548 over 5y, 35% of budgetUNITE HERE Local 57: $595,293 over 2y, 48% of budgetUNITE HERE LOCAL UNION 450: $584,757 over 2y, 36% of budgetUNITE HERE LOCAL 7: $552,845 over 4y, 26% of budgetCITIZENS FOR A RESPONSIBLE ANAHEIM SPONSORED BY UNITE HERE LOCAL 11: $450,000 over 1y, 48% of budgetUNITE HERE LOCAL 878: $440,203 over 4y, 44% of budgetUNITE HERE LOCAL 483: $401,266 over 3y, 26% of budgetCoalition to Protect Riders and Drivers sponsored by the CA Labor Federation AFL-CIO: $375,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCITIZENS FOR A SUSTAINABLE LAGUNA BEACH: $300,000 over 1y, 82% of budgetUNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA: $220,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetWorking Partnerships USA: $210,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL UNION OF PAINTERS AND ALLIED TRADES: $200,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW AMERICANS: $142,505 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE: $135,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCITIZENS FOR A BETTER LOS ANGELES 2022 SPONSORED BY UNITE HERE LOCAL 11: $131,050 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetCITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBLE DEVELOPMENT BEVERLY HILLS: $112,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetAlliance to Fight for Health Care: $110,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $110,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetNEW HAVEN RISING INC: $108,100 over 1y, 43% of budgetCATHOLIC LEGAL IMMIGRATION NETWORK INC: $106,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetRepairers of the Breach: $100,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS: $95,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOL CAFETERIA EMPLOYEES UNITE HERE LOCAL NO 634 LEGAL SERVICES FUND: $81,532 over 1y, 39% 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.

Communications Worker…United Food and Comme…American Federation o…International Brother…Unite Here Action FundInternational Brother…Int Union United Auto…American Federation o…United Steel Paper an…Office and Profession…International Union o…International Union o…
Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio ClcDC47.3× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc · United Food and Commercial Workers International Union · American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees · International Brotherhood of Teamsters · Unite Here Action Fund · International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers · Int Union United Auto National Community Action Program · American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations · United Steel Paper and Forestry Rubber Manufacturing Energy Allied · Office and Professional Employees International Union · International Union of Painters and Allied Trades · International Union of Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 170%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • New Haven Works Inc: 58% of income from government
  • Casa Inc: 8% of income from government
  • The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven: 2% of income from government
  • Documentary Educational Resources Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
17get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 139 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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