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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 FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Employment$2.2MPhilanthropy$1.6MCivil Rights$1.5MCommunity Improvement$1.2MPublic Benefit$480kArts & Culture$225kHealth$35kYouth Development$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 14 grants below total $2,407,002 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,546,270 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $139,268 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 · FY2025

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $125k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $430k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.9M
$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOR OUR FUTURE ACTION FUND$1,000,000
WORKER POWER$852,002
21ST CENTURY ILGWU HERITAGE FUND$200,000
DEMOCRACY ALLIANCE$70,000
AMERICA VOTES INC$60,000
PROGRESSIVE STATE LEADERS COMMITTEE$50,000
WORKER POWER INSTITUTE$50,000
DEMOCRATIC TREASURERS ASSOCIATION$25,000
STATE POLICY INSTITUTE$25,000
JOHN BURTON ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH$20,000
HEALTHY CALIFORNIA NOW$20,000
THE REGENTS OF UNIV OF CA$15,000
EPI ACTION$10,000
AMERICANS FOR RESPONSIBLE GROWTH$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 (FY21–21, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHIRLA ACTION FUND: $5k → 14%NAT'L PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW AMERICANS: $25k → 14%CASA IN ACTION: $5k → 11%CA ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS: $5k → 10%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

IL
MI
NY
MA
NV
CT
CA
VA
MD
AZ
DC
GA
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.

6%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$410k · 5 repeat orgs$7.0M 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 -5% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
33

Total granted

$410k
$4.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
-5%

Still filing today

80%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementHuman ServicesCivil RightsHealthEmploymentYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • DA
    DEMOCRACY ALLIANCE
    2× · 2024–2025 · $140k
  • AV
    America Votes
    3× · 2023–2025 · $130k · revenue +53%
  • WP
    WORKER POWER INSTITUTE
    2× · 2024–2025 · $100k · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • UH
    UNITE HERE EDUCATION AND SUPPORT FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $1.8M · revenue -97%
  • UH
    UNITE HERE TIP STATE AND LOCAL FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $1.5M
  • UH
    UNITE HERE LOCAL 26 SEPERATE FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $321k

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
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
2
Laborers International Union of State of Mi

Collective bargaining and representation

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3
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…

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4
American Workers for Progress

American workers for progress works to ensure that leaders at every level are focused on reducing barriers to job growth and addressing economic challenges to guarantee a better future for all americans.

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5
Afl-Cio Union Lawyers Alliance

Afl-cio union lawyers alliance was established to better the conditions of working men and women and their families by enhancing the quality of legal representation that is available to the afl-cio and the national and international unions…

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6
Washington State Labor Council Afl-Cio

To protect and strengthen the rights and conditions of working people and their families.

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7
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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8
The Laborers Pacific Southwest Regional Organizing Coalition

to organize workers in the laborers international union of north America, afl-cio pacific southwest region through a coordinated program to maintain and improve employment opportunities for affiliated local union members and to recruit new…

Employment
9
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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10
Laborers' International Union of North America Laborers' Local #43

Promote and protect the interests of the members of the local

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11
Contra Costa Labor Council Afl-Cio

The council is a federation of approximately 85 affiliated unions. the organizaton engages in a wide range of activities. the activities are designed to improve the lives of working families, to bring economic justice to the workplace, and…

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12
Laborers International Union of North America

Representing members in matters of collective bargaining.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Community Change Action and the most unlike its peers is 21ST Century Ilgwu Heritage Fund. 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 backsteadyPolicy Research and AdvocacyLgbtq+ Community SupportChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Cancer Support ServicesJewish Community Organizati…Immigrant Worker SupportWomen & Girls Leadership De…
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 19 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%38%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%10%35–55yr16%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%25%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%56%20–35yr13%1%35–55yr16%4%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/48
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,517

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

35 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. 35 of the 48 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
15/35
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNITE HERE TIP STATE AND LOCAL FUND — $1,500,000 · OtherUNITE HERE TIP STATE AND LOCAL FUNDFOR OUR FUTURE ACTION FUND — $1,000,000 · OtherFOR OUR FUTURE ACTION FUNDUNITE HERE LOCAL 26 SEPERATE FUND — $321,300 · OtherUNITE HERE LOCAL 26 SEPERATE FUNDCOMPOSE LLC — $183,000 · OtherVOTE YES FOR WORKERS RIGHTS — $150,000 · OtherDEMOCRACY ALLIANCE — $140,000 · Other+19 more — $601,000 · Other+19 moreUNITE HERE EDUCATION AND SUPPORT FUND — $1,812,000 · Community ImprovementUNITE HERE EDUCATION AND SUPPORT FUNDWORKER POWER — $852,002 · Community ImprovementWORKER POWERAmerica Votes — $130,000 · Community ImprovementWORKER POWER INSTITUTE — $100,000 · Community Improvement+2 more — $55,000 · Community Improvement21ST CENTURY ILGWU HERITAGE FUND — $200,000 · PhilanthropyHOSPITALITY EMPLOYEES ADVANCEMENT AND TRAINING INC — $150,000 · EmploymentJEWISH LABOR COMMITTEE — $15,000 · EmploymentBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC — $50,000 · Civil RightsCONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS POLITICAL EDU CATION AND LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE — $25,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS — $10,000 · Civil RightsJobs with Justice — $5,000 · Civil RightsPRIDE AT WORK AFL-CIO — $5,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW AMERICANS — $25,000 · Human ServicesAMERICANS FOR RESPONSIBLE GROWTH — $10,000 · Human ServicesCALIFORNIA ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS — $5,000 · Human ServicesCASA IN ACTION INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesCalifornians for Human Immigrant Rights Leadership Action Fund — $5,000 · Human ServicesHEALTHY CALIFORNIA NOW — $20,000 · HealthWorking Partnerships USA — $5,000 · HealthCANDLELIGHTERS FOR CHILDHOOD CANCER — $5,000 · HealthLOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY — $5,000 · Health
Other$3,895,300Community Improvement$2,949,002Philanthropy$200,000Employment$165,000Civil Rights$95,000Human Services$50,000Health$35,000

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 budgetHOSPITALITY EMPLOYEES ADVANCEMENT AND TRAINING INC — $150,000 over 1y, 58% of budgetAmerica Votes — $130,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWORKER POWER INSTITUTE — $100,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetUNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA — $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRICHMONDERS FOR GOOD JOBS — $76,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW HAVEN RISING INC — $50,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetJohn Burton Advocates for Youth — $25,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW AMERICANS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS POLITICAL EDU CATION AND LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetState Policy Institute — $25,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetJEWISH LABOR COMMITTEE — $15,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCASA IN ACTION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWorking Partnerships USA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJobs with Justice — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCANDLELIGHTERS FOR CHILDHOOD CANCER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE ACTION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CONSTITUTION SOCIETY FOR LAW & POLICY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL LABOR RIGHTS FORUM — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRIDE AT WORK AFL-CIO — $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITIES ORGANIZED FOR RESPONSIBLE DEVELOPMENT — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LABOR ALLIANCE AFL -CIO — $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% 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.

Unite HereSixteen Thirty FundUnited Food and Comme…Communications Worker…Tides FoundationInt Union United Auto…American Federation o…Open Society Action F…National Education As…State Engagement FundNorth FundNEO Philanthropy Inc
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

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 Unite Here Action Fund 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 · 30%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Unite Here Action Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Unite Here Action Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 48 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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