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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 FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$83k
Largest
01What you fund
0183% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Civil Rights$190kRecreation & Sports$125kPublic Safety & Disaster$83kHealth$50kEmployment$20kHousing & Shelter$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 1 grants below total $82,604 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $99,283 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $16,679 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.

$82,604
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEXAS FOR ALL$82,604
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 (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 79% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%NATIONAL DOMESTIC WORKERS ALLIANCE: $20k → 17%UNITED FOR RESPECT EDUCATION FUND: $20k → 20%TEXAS CIVIL RIGHTS PROJECT: $50k → 10%TEXAS BUSINESS FIRST: $33k → 14%TEXAS FOR ALL: $83k → 16%FE Y JUSTICIA WORKER CENTER: $20k → 16%THE FAIRNESS PROJECT: $10k → 14%PLANNED PARENTHOOD TEXAS VOTES: $50k → 10%TEXAS BUSINESS FIRST: $26k → 14%TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT: $50k → 16%FIELDWORKS LLC: $125k → 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.

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 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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Border Workers United

A community-based organization that develops leadership of workers to construct a movement of worker families in the texas borderlands.

2
American Civil Liberties Union of Texas Inc

The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.

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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.

Civil Rights
4
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
5
Every Voice Texas dba Asian Texans for Justice

Asian Texans for Justice connects Asian and Pacific Islander Texans with civic action to build personal and political power.

Civil Rights
6
Aclu Foundation of Texas Inc

The ACLU Foundation of Texas is the unyielding guardian and promoter of freedom, justice, equality and dignity of all people, particularly for those who are still fighting to secure the full exercise of their civil rights and liberties.…

Civil Rights
7
Progress Texas

Progress Texas is a non-profit media organization advocating for progressive ideals and policies in our state.

Civil Rights
8
Equal Justice Center

The Equal Justice Center is a non-profit law firm and employment justice organization which empowers low-income families, workers, and communities to achieve fair treatment in the workplace, in the justice system, and in our shared society…

Civil Rights
9
Seiu Texas

Seiu texas unites texas workers in healthcare, property service and the public sector into one organization to advocate for equality, justice and respect for all.

10
Center for Public Policy Priorities

At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…

Public Benefit
11
Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights
12
Workers Defense Project

Workers defense project is a member-led organization that organizes latine immigrant workers in texas to fight for dignity and respect.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oficina Legal Del Pueblo Unido Inc and the most unlike its peers is Planned Parenthood Texas Votes. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 11 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)
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Grantees still filing
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Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FIELDWORKS LLC — $125,000 · OtherFIELDWORKS LLCTEXAS FOR ALL — $82,604 · OtherTEXAS FOR ALLIndividual grant recipient — $58,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPLANNED PARENTHOOD TEXAS VOTES — $50,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD TEXAS VOTESTEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK — $50,000 · OtherTEXAS FREEDOM NETWORKOFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC — $50,000 · OtherOFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INCTEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT — $50,000 · OtherTEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECTNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc — $20,000 · Civil RightsFE Y JUSTICIA WORKER CENTER — $20,000 · Civil RightsUnited for Respect Education Fund — $20,000 · EducationTHE FAIRNESS PROJECT — $10,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$466,104Civil Rights$40,000Education$20,000Housing & Shelter$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTEXAS FOR ALL — $82,604 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD TEXAS VOTES — $50,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetTEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK — $50,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetOFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT — $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited for Respect Education Fund — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFE Y JUSTICIA WORKER CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetTHE FAIRNESS PROJECT — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Open Society Action Fund IncNY15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Open Society Action Fund Inc · North Fund · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · Tides 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 Workers Defense 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.

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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    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 11 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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