How much does Unite Here Action Fund give?

Unite Here Action Fund reported 14 itemized grants totaling $2,407,002, out of $2,546,270 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 22 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.

What does Unite Here Action Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Employment (29%), Philanthropy (22%), Civil Rights (20%).

Who are Unite Here Action Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Unite Here Education and Support Fund ($1.8M), Unite Here Tip State and Local Fund ($1.5M), For Our Future Action Fund ($1.0M).

Does Unite Here Action Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 86% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Unite Here Action Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Unite Here, Sixteen Thirty Fund, United Food and Commercial Workers International Union.

Where is Unite Here Action Fund based?

Unite Here Action Fund is based in NY.

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New York · Public charity

Unite Here Action Fund

UNITE HERE ACTION FUND is organized to promote social welfare within the meaning of section 501(c)(4) of the internal revenue code, including by assisting hospitality workers and their families to achieve economic, social, and racial justice in workplaces and communities through education and advocacy, leadership development, and…

$2.5M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 14
Itemized grants FY2025: 7
Organizations funded FY2024: 86%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $2.4M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $50,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $1,000,000
Organizations funded a year: 5 to 22; FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 4
Total assets, FY2025: $4.9M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 86% of the organizations Unite Here Action Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 81% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $256k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Community ImprovementCivil RightsOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	14	$2.4M	71%
FY2024	7	$316k	86%
FY2023	5	$1.7M	100%
FY2022	6	$606k	83%
FY2021	22	$2.3M	n/a

98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Employment$2.2MPhilanthropy$1.6MCivil Rights$1.5MCommunity Improvement$1.2MPublic Benefit$480kArts & Culture$225kHealth$35kYouth Development$25kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Unite Here Education and Support Fund	$1,812,000	1	n/a
Unite Here Tip State and Local Fund	$1,500,000	1	n/a
For Our Future Action Fund	$1,000,000	1	n/a
Worker Power	$852,002	1	n/a
Unite Here Local 26 Seperate Fund	$321,300	1	n/a
21st Century Ilgwu Heritage Fund	$200,000	1	n/a
Compose LLC	$183,000	1	n/a
Hospitality Employees Advancement and Training Inc	$150,000	1	58%
Vote Yes for Workers Rights	$150,000	1	n/a
Democracy Alliance	$140,000	2	n/a

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All grantees of Unite Here Action Fund by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Unite Here Education and Support Fund	$1,812,000	1	n/a
Unite Here Tip State and Local Fund	$1,500,000	1	n/a
For Our Future Action Fund	$1,000,000	1	n/a
Worker Power	$852,002	1	n/a
Unite Here Local 26 Seperate Fund	$321,300	1	n/a
21st Century Ilgwu Heritage Fund	$200,000	1	n/a
Compose LLC	$183,000	1	n/a
Hospitality Employees Advancement and Training Inc	$150,000	1	58%
Vote Yes for Workers Rights	$150,000	1	n/a
Democracy Alliance	$140,000	2	n/a
America Votes	$130,000	3	0%
United Mine Workers of America	$100,000	1	1%
Clark County Nv Election Deptarment #84	$100,000	1	n/a
Worker Power Institute	$100,000	2	4%
Richmonders for Good Jobs	$76,000	1	5%
Progressive State Leaders Committee Inc	$50,000	1	n/a
Bvm Capacity Building Institute Inc	$50,000	1	0%
New Haven Rising Inc	$50,000	1	15%
Our Democracy	$50,000	1	n/a
Democratic Treasurers Association	$25,000	1	n/a
State Policy Institute	$25,000	1	7%
Congressional Black Caucus Political Edu Cation and Leadership Institute	$25,000	1	1%
John Burton Advocates for Youth	$25,000	2	1%
Courier Newsroom Inc	$25,000	1	n/a
National Partnership for New Americans	$25,000	1	1%
Detroit United Unite Here Local 24 Superpac	$25,000	1	n/a
Democratic Treasurers Association	$25,000	1	n/a
Wooster Square Conservancy	$20,000	1	n/a
Healthy California Now	$20,000	1	19%
Jewish Labor Committee	$15,000	2	4%
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley	$15,000	1	n/a
Americans for Responsible Growth	$10,000	1	n/a
Center for Empowered Politics	$10,000	1	0%
Epi Action	$10,000	1	6%
Economic Policy Institute	$10,000	1	0%
Californians for Human Immigrant Rights Leadership Action Fund	$5,000	1	n/a
International Labor Rights Forum	$5,000	1	0%
Jobs with Justice	$5,000	1	0%
California Alliance for Retired Americans	$5,000	1	1%
Candlelighters for Childhood Cancer	$5,000	1	0%
Pride at Work Afl-Cio	$5,000	1	2%
Center for Community Change Action	$5,000	1	0%
Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance AFL -Cio	$5,000	1	1%
American Constitution Society for Law & Policy	$5,000	1	0%
Working Partnerships USA	$5,000	1	0%
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy	$5,000	1	0%
Orange County Communities Organized for Responsible Development	$5,000	1	0%
Casa in Action Inc	$5,000	1	0%

Unite Here Action Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 28 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 28.

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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.

Unite HereNY34.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Unite Here · Sixteen Thirty Fund · United Food and Commercial Workers International Union · Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc · Tides Foundation · Int Union United Auto National Community Action Program · American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees · Open Society Action Fund Inc · National Education Association of the United States · State Engagement Fund · North Fund · NEO Philanthropy Inc

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.

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About Unite Here Action Fund

How much does Unite Here Action Fund give?: Unite Here Action Fund reported 14 itemized grants totaling $2,407,002, out of $2,546,270 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 22 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Unite Here Action Fund fund?: By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Employment (29%), Philanthropy (22%), Civil Rights (20%).
Who are Unite Here Action Fund's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Unite Here Education and Support Fund ($1.8M), Unite Here Tip State and Local Fund ($1.5M), For Our Future Action Fund ($1.0M).
Does Unite Here Action Fund fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 86% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Unite Here Action Fund?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Unite Here, Sixteen Thirty Fund, United Food and Commercial Workers International Union.
Where is Unite Here Action Fund based?: Unite Here Action Fund is based in NY.