· Public charity
United Working Families
To advance the interests of the working class, middle class and poor americans, through legislative advocacy, public education, creative media and community organizing.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $43,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $74,195 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $31,195 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 · FY2023
- Under $10k4 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRASSROOTS ILLINOIS ACTION | $13,000 |
| THE PEOPLES LOBBY | $7,500 |
| JCUA VOTES | $7,500 |
| WORKERS CENTER FOR RACIAL JUSTICE | $7,500 |
| ONE PEOPLES CAMPAIGN | $7,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of your 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.
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.
Working Family Solidarity builds unity between low and moderate-income families of different backgrounds, especially African American and Latino, to struggle together for equitable development. We fight for racial equity and economic…
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,…
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.
Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.
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…
The mission of Chicago Jobs with Justice is to build a strong and progressive labor movement that works in coalition with student, faith and community organizations to win important campaigns for workers' rights and social and economic…
To advance the rights of workers by engaging diverse faith communities into action, from grassroots organizing to shaping policy at the local, state and national levels. They envision a nation where all workers enjoy the rights to:…
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.
Chicago Jobs Council (CJC) pursues its mission through advocacy, applied research, public education and capacity-building initiatives focused on influencing the development or reform of public policies and programs. From 18 original…
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…
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…
Illinois Workers in Action IWA mission is to empower workers through education organizing policy solidarity worker power develop leadership in the workplace and offer resources to families and the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Workers' Collaborative Nfp and the most unlike its peers is Brighton Park Neighborhood Council. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.
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 2017–2024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 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 WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds Grassroots Illinois Action ↗
- Who funds Chicago Workers' Collaborative NFP ↗
- Who funds Warehouse Workers Justice Center Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHSIDERS ORGANIZED FOR UNITY AND LIBERATION ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTON PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Workers Center For Racial Just NFP ↗
- Who funds Jewish Council on Urban Affairs ↗
- Who funds THE PEOPLE'S LOBBY ↗
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: Field Foundation of Illinois · Woods Fund of Chicago · The Chicago Community Trust · Solidago Foundation · Forefront · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Proteus Fund Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Working Families 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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