Texas · Public charity
Workers Defense Action Fund
WORKERS DEFENSE ACTION FUND is a member-led organization that mobilizes latine voters in texas to build governing power and fight for worker and immigrant justice.
- $99k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 1
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2022
- Itemized, FY2024
- $83k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $82,604
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $82,604
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 5
- FY2018 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.6M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 100% of the organizations Workers Defense Action Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 1 | $83k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $60k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $233k | 80% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $36k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $125k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fieldworks LLC | $125,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Texas for All | $82,604 | 1 | 8% |
| Texas Organizing Project | $50,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Planned Parenthood Texas Votes | $50,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Oficina Legal del Pueblo Unido Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Texas Freedom Network | $50,000 | 1 | 4% |
| National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| United for Respect Education Fund | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Fe y Justicia Worker Center | $20,000 | 1 | 3% |
| The Fairness Project | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($59k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Workers Defense Action Fund supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Open Society Action Fund Inc · North Fund · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · Tides Foundation
How this is measured
About Workers Defense Action Fund
- How much does Workers Defense Action Fund give?
- Workers Defense Action Fund reported 1 itemized grants totaling $82,604, out of $99,283 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 5 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2022.
- What does Workers Defense Action Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (35%), Recreation & Sports (23%), Public Safety & Disaster (15%).
- Who are Workers Defense Action Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Fieldworks LLC ($125k), Texas for All ($83k), Texas Organizing Project ($50k).
- Does Workers Defense Action Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Workers Defense Action Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Open Society Action Fund Inc, North Fund, Way to Win Action Fund Inc.
- Where is Workers Defense Action Fund based?
- Workers Defense Action Fund is based in TX.
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