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Workers United

Organizing the unorganized collective bargaining.

$66k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Employment$735kPublic Safety & Disaster$135kEducation$90kInternational$50kCivil Rights$35kPhilanthropy$25kEnvironment$20kArts & Culture$15k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $60,200, the rows itemized in this filing. The $66,470 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $6,270 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$233M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WORKERS UNITED SOUTHERN REGION - HURRICANE RELIEF FUND$25,200
THE SIDNEY HILLMAN FOUNDATION INC$15,000
A PHILIP RANDOLPH INSTITUTE$10,000
SOCIAL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS INC$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SOCIAL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS INC: $10k → 14%THE SIDNEY HILLMAN FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 17%SOUTHWEST REGIONAL JOINT BOARD RELIEF FUND: $10k → 14%SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION: $360k → 14%BREAD & ROSES MISSOURI: $15k → 21%WORKERS UNITED SOUTHERN REGION - HURRICANE RELIEF FUND: $25k → 13%SOCIAL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS INC: $10k → 14%WORKERS CIRCLE ACTION INC: $5k → 17%SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION: $360k → 14%AMALGAMATED BANK: $25k → 17%UNITED STUDENTS AGAINST SWEATSHOPS: $10k → 14%JEWISH LABOR COMMITTEE: $10k → 17%UNITED STUDENTS AGAINST SWEATSHOPS: $10k → 14%UNITE HERE EDCUATION AND SUPPORT FUND: $5k → 17%UNITED STUDENTS AGAINST SWEATSHOPS: $10k → 14%THE SIDNEY HILLMAN FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 17%A PHILIP RANDOLPH INSTITUTE INC: $15k → 14%THE SIDNEY HILLMAN FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 17%UNITED STUDENTS AGAINST SWEATSHOPS: $10k → 14%THE SIDNEY HILLMAN FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 17%A PHILIP RANDOLPH INSTITUTE: $10k → 14%THE SIDNEY HILLMAN FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 17%UNITED STUDENTS AGAINST SWEATSHOPS: $10k → 14%THE SIDNEY HILLMAN FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 17%A PHILIP RANDOLPH INSTITUTE INC: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$910k · 5 repeat orgs$195k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +8% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
7

Total granted

$910k
$170k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
0%

Still filing today

100%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureInternationalEducationEnvironmentEmploymentCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • Alliance for Global Justice Corp
    5× · 2017–2022 · $50k · revenue +60%
  • AP
    A PHILIP RANDOLPH INSTITUTE
    3× · 2019–2024 · $30k · revenue +345%
  • SA
    SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • RT
    REMEMBER THE TRIANGLE FIRE COALITION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -86%
  • AB
    AMALGAMATED BANK & SUBSIDIARIES
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • BR
    BREAD & ROSES MISSOURI
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +20%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
Seiu Healthcare 1199NW Multi-Employer Training & Education Fund
Health
3
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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4
Industrial Workers of the World

The Industrial Workers of the World is a member-run Union for all workers an union dedicated to organizing on the job in our industries and our communities We want our workplaces to run for the benefit of the workers and our communities…

Employment
5
Interfaith Worker Justice

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:…

Religion
6
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
7
Jobs with Justice Education Fund
Employment
8
Service Employees International Uni Michigan Strength in Action Council

To develop and lead the member local unions' strategy and program across local unions, industries and geographies to build power and win justice for workers, their families and their communities.

—
9
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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10
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
11
International Labor Rights Forum

A human rights organization dedicated to achieving achieving dignity and justice for workers worldwide.

International
12
Laborers International Union of 341 Hcl

Union hall devoted to the betterment of members compensation and working conditions, to secure recognition of workers rights to engage in collective bargaining, and to promote the development and maintenance of on-the-job safety practices…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Sidney Hillman Foundation Inc. 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

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 13 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION: $720,000 · OtherSERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNIONA PHILIP RANDOLPH INSTITUTE: $30,000 · Other+4 more: $65,349 · Other+4 moreREMEMBER THE TRIANGLE FIRE COALITION INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureREMEMBER TH…BREAD & ROSES MISSOURI: $15,000 · Arts & CultureBREAD & ROS…THE SIDNEY HILLMAN FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 · EducationTHE SIDNE…Alliance for Global Justice Corp: $50,000 · InternationalSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentJEWISH LABOR COMMITTEE: $10,000 · EmploymentUNITE HERE EDUCATION AND SUPPORT FUND: $5,000 · Community Improvement
Other$815,349Arts & Culture$115,000Education$90,000International$50,000Environment$20,000Employment$10,000Community Improvement$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION: $720,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetREMEMBER THE TRIANGLE FIRE COALITION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetTHE SIDNEY HILLMAN FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetAlliance for Global Justice Corp: $50,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetA PHILIP RANDOLPH INSTITUTE: $30,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBREAD & ROSES MISSOURI: $15,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetJEWISH LABOR COMMITTEE: $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetUNITE HERE EDUCATION AND SUPPORT FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Workers United funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Workers United. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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