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United for Respect Education Fund

United For Respect Education Fund elevates the voices of those employed in the growing service economy to ensure industry leaders and policymakers provide family-sustaining jobs for all working Americans.

$215k
Granted FY2023
3
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$89k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2023.

Employment$673kEnvironment$175kCivil Rights$105kEducation$96kPublic Benefit$89kHealth$50kFood & Nutrition$35k
02FY2023 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $45k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $168k
$79,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Georgetown Law$89,000
Demand Progress$79,000
Step Up Louisiana Organizing$44,500
02The need
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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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%One Fair Wage: $10k → 8%Centro de Trabajadores Unidos: $10k → 11%Media Justice: $50k → 7%WORKING PARTNERSHIPS USA: $50k → 8%Green Workers Alliance: $10k → 10%Warehouse Work Resource Cntr: $25k → 14%PILIPINO WORKERS CENTER OF SO CA: $50k → 14%National Domestic Workers: $6k → 17%Center for Popular Democracy: $10k → 20%Workers Defense Project: $28k → 10%Georgetown Law: $89k → 14%Duniafore Foundation: $7k → 19%Highlander Research Education: $17k → 11%Action Institute NC: $7k → 10%Beloved Comm Cntr Greensboro: $7k → 16%Heartland Center: $20k → 8%Southerners on New Ground: $16k → 13%Trailhead Institute: $8k → 12%Working Washington Fair Work: $10k → 9%CHICAGO JOBS WITH JUSTICE: $20k → 14%NJ21 United: $5k → 11%Newark Water-PowerShiftNetwrk: $7k → 16%LC COCINA VA: $35k → 7%Step Up Louisiana Organizing: $45k → 23%Demand Progress: $79k → 8%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $30k → 10%LAANE: $50k → 14%Fund for City of New York: $12k → 17%NY Communities for Change: $40k → 20%Institute for Self-Reliance: $175k → 14%Colorado Jobs with Justice: $10k → 12%WAREHOUSE WORKERS FOR JUSTICE: $20k → 14%StepUp Louisiana: $18k → 23%RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF CUNY: $7k → 17%WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION: $60k → 20%JOBS WITH JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND: $6k → 14%WAREHOUSE WORKERS FOR JUSTICE: $10k → 14%Movement Catalyst LLC: $33k → 14%Blocks Together: $16k → 14%BYP100 Education: $17k → 14%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

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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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 14% of United for Respect Education Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

United for Respect Education Fundlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your 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.

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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
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
3
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
4
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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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
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Workers Center for Racial Just Nfp

The mission of the Workers Center For Racial Justice is to eliminate structural barriers to sustainable and living wage

Civil Rights
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LaborLab

LaborLab is a nonprofit watchdog dedicated to safeguarding workers rights to organize, win strong contracts, and build lasting collective power. Through strategic research, educational resources, and corporate accountability, we empower…

Human Services
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Philadelphia Area Jobs With Justice

Building support for the rights of working people through coalitions of labor and community and through public education.

Employment
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Jobs With Justice Education Fund

The organization serves as a coalition of labor organizations, community groups, faith-based organizations, and student groups dedicated to protecting the rights of working people. To this end, the corporation shall engage in organizing…

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10
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
11
National Legal Advocacy Network Dba Glow

The National Legal Advocacy Network d/b/a Grassroots Law & Organizing for Workers is a legal non-profit organization dedicated to using legal strategies as a tool to build power for marginalized workers and create systemic change through…

Crime & Legal
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Jobs with Justice

Jobs with Justice is the nations only policy and advocacy organization dedicated to advancing workers rights to form unions and bargain with their employers for fair wages, benefits, and working conditions.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc and the most unlike its peers is Southerners On New Ground Inc. 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 backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Women & Girls Leadership De…Lgbtq+ Community SupportEnvironmental Conservation …Policy Research and AdvocacyImmigrant Worker Support
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 18 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%6%<5yr14%19%5–10yr19%28%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr16%3%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%8%<5yr14%13%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr16%3%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/38
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,527

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.

05the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 41 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
30/33
Grantees still filing
25/33
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL SELF RELIANCE — $175,000 · Community ImprovementINSTITUTE FOR LOCAL SELF RE…F&L ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT SERVICES — $75,000 · Community ImprovementF&L ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT …PILIPINO WORKERS CENTER OF SOUTHERN — $50,000 · Community ImprovementPILIPINO WORKERS CENTER OF …Step Up Louisiana Organizing Fund — $62,050 · Civil RightsStep Up Louisiana Organi…WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC — $60,000 · Civil RightsWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZ…New York Communities For Change Inc — $39,825 · Civil RightsNew York Communities For…CHICAGO JOBS WITH JUSTICE — $20,000 · Civil RightsCHICAGO JOBS WITH JUSTIC…HEARTLAND CENTER FOR JOBS AND FREEDOM INC — $20,000 · Civil RightsHEARTLAND CENTER FOR JOB…BYP100 Education Fund — $16,940 · Civil RightsBYP100 Education FundSOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND INC — $15,785 · Civil RightsSOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUN…North Bay Jobs With Justice — $14,675 · Civil RightsNorth Bay Jobs With Just…ONE FAIR WAGE INC — $10,000 · Civil Rights+1 more — $5,544 · Civil RightsMEDIA JUSTICE NETWORK — $50,000 · OtherMEDIA JUSTICE NETWORKMovement Catalyst LLC — $33,000 · OtherMovement Catalyst LLCREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY — $30,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY…Highlander Research Education — $16,623 · OtherHighlander Research Educa…BLOCKS TOGETHER — $15,785 · OtherBLOCKS TOGETHERGreen Workers Alliance — $10,000 · OtherWorking Washington Fair Work — $10,000 · OtherLA COCINA VA — $35,200 · OtherLA COCINA VAWarehouse Workers Justice Center Inc — $30,450 · OtherWarehouse Workers Justice…FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC — $11,858 · Other+5 more — $33,506 · Other+5 moreGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $89,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN …WORKERS DEFENSE PROJECT — $28,275 · EducationWORKERS DEF…Research Foundation of the City University of New York — $6,500 · EducationLOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY — $50,000 · HealthLOS ANGEL…Working Partnerships USA — $50,000 · HealthWorking P…TRAILHEAD INSTITUTE — $7,550 · HealthTRAILHEAD…DEMAND PROGRESS ACTION INC — $79,000 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC — $10,000 · Public BenefitWarehouse Worker Resource Center — $25,000 · EmploymentMissouri Workers Center — $10,000 · EmploymentCENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA — $10,000 · EmploymentCOLORADO JOBS WITH JUSTICE INC — $10,000 · EmploymentJobs with Justice Education Fund — $6,000 · Employment
Community Improvement$300,000Civil Rights$264,819Other$276,422Education$123,775Health$107,550Public Benefit$89,000Employment$61,000

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 budgetINSTITUTE FOR LOCAL SELF RELIANCE — $175,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $89,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEMAND PROGRESS ACTION INC — $79,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetF&L ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT SERVICES — $75,000 over 1y, 85% of budgetStep Up Louisiana Organizing Fund — $62,050 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC — $60,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY — $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWorking Partnerships USA — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNew York Communities For Change Inc — $39,825 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetLA COCINA VA — $35,200 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetWORKERS DEFENSE PROJECT — $28,275 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWarehouse Worker Resource Center — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHEARTLAND CENTER FOR JOBS AND FREEDOM INC — $20,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetBYP100 Education Fund — $16,940 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND INC — $15,785 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorth Bay Jobs With Justice — $14,675 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC — $11,858 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE FAIR WAGE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMissouri Workers Center — $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOLORADO JOBS WITH JUSTICE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTRAILHEAD INSTITUTE — $7,550 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPOWER SHIFT NETWORK — $7,325 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetACTION INSTITUTE NC — $7,095 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Beloved Community Center of Greensboro Inc — $6,831 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York — $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJobs with Justice Education Fund — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc — $5,544 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Amalgamated Charitabl…Tides FoundationJobs with Justice Edu…Center for Popular De…The Ford FoundationNew Venture FundSolidago FoundationMarguerite Casey Foun…Windward FundNEO Philanthropy IncThe Nathan Cummings F…Impactassetsinc
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC33.6× affinity16 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 · Jobs with Justice Education Fund · Center for Popular Democracy Inc · The Ford Foundation · New Venture Fund · Solidago Foundation · Marguerite Casey Foundation · Windward Fund · NEO Philanthropy Inc · The Nathan Cummings Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc

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 United for Respect Education 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
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24

    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.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to United for Respect Education Fund?

    Find your warmest path to United for Respect Education 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 41 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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