Texas · Public charity
Workers Defense Project
WORKERS DEFENSE PROJECT is a member-led organization that organizes latine immigrant workers in texas to fight for dignity and respect.
- $908k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 3
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $871k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $250,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $494,064
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 12
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $10M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Workers Defense Project funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 3 | $871k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $433k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $347k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $393k | 75% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $120k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $110k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Workers Defense Action Fund | $1,100,000 | 4 | 37% |
| Workers Defense Project | $494,064 | 1 | 13% |
| Texas Organizing Project Education Fund | $164,084 | 5 | 1% |
| Texas Riogrande Legal Aid Inc | $143,316 | 2 | 0% |
| United We Dream Network Inc | $136,583 | 5 | 0% |
| Grassroots Leadership Inc | $84,084 | 3 | 3% |
| United for Respect Education Fund | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Austin Justice Coalition | $20,000 | 1 | 4% |
| SHAPE Community Center | $20,000 | 1 | 3% |
| National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 16 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Workers Defense Action Fund | $1,100,000 | 4 | 37% |
| Workers Defense Project | $494,064 | 1 | 13% |
| Texas Organizing Project Education Fund | $164,084 | 5 | 1% |
| Texas Riogrande Legal Aid Inc | $143,316 | 2 | 0% |
| United We Dream Network Inc | $136,583 | 5 | 0% |
| Grassroots Leadership Inc | $84,084 | 3 | 3% |
| United for Respect Education Fund | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Austin Justice Coalition | $20,000 | 1 | 4% |
| SHAPE Community Center | $20,000 | 1 | 3% |
| National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Fe y Justicia Worker Center | $15,000 | 1 | 2% |
| West Street Recovery | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Austin Black Pride | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Living Hope Wheelchair Association | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Out Youth Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Embrace Austin | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Workers Defense Project supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Tides Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Texas Organizing Project Education Fund · Unitarian Universalist Service Committee Inc · United Way of Greater Houston · Houston Endowment Inc · Borealis Philanthropy · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Workers Defense Project
- How much does Workers Defense Project give?
- Workers Defense Project reported 3 itemized grants totaling $870,874, out of $907,874 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 12 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Workers Defense Project fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (44%), Public Benefit (37%), Crime & Legal (10%).
- Who are Workers Defense Project's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Workers Defense Action Fund ($1.1M), Workers Defense Project ($494k), Texas Organizing Project Education Fund ($164k).
- Does Workers Defense Project fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Workers Defense Project?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tides Foundation, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Texas Organizing Project Education Fund.
- Where is Workers Defense Project based?
- Workers Defense Project is based in TX.
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