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Working Families Organization Inc

The working families organization is a non-profit advocacy organization that seeks to advance the interests of working class, middle class and poor americans, through legislative advocacy, public education, creative media and community organizing.

$15M
Granted FY2024still arriving
106
Grants FY2024still arriving
28
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Public Benefit$15MCivil Rights$13MEnvironment$7.5MCommunity Improvement$4.4MPhilanthropy$2.5MEducation$2.5MEmployment$1.3MInternational$1.2MOther$0
02FY2024 · 106 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 106 grants below total $8,124,186, the rows itemized in this filing. The $14,705,464 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $6,581,278 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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k55 grants · $1.1M
  • $50k–250k43 grants · $3.3M
  • $250k+6 grants · $3.8M
$30,000
Median grant
28
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WFP NATIONAL PARTY BUILDING$1,500,000
CHILDREN AND TEACHERS FOUNDATION OF THE CTU$700,000
DEMOCRACYFIRST$575,000
WFP NATIONAL PAC - NON-CONTRIBUTION ACCOUNT$400,000
SOLIDAIRE NETWORK INC$300,000
TAPROOT EARTH$280,000
TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND$196,247
STATE POWER ACTION FUND$150,000
FAIR SHOT TEXAS$150,000
TIDES ADVOCACYGRASSROOTS POWER PROJECT$125,000
CLIMATE AND COMMUNITY PROJECT$100,000
API PA VOTES$100,000
STATE DEMOCRACY PROJECT$100,000
MICHIGAN UNITED ACTION$100,000
OLE EDUCATION FUND$100,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $935k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 72% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%METROPOLITAN WILMINGTON URBAN LEAGUE: $5k → 10%ASIAN PACIFIC ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK ACTION: $125k → 12%OUR CITY ACTION BUFFALO INC: $100k → 13%CITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK: $95k → 14%NCAAT IN ACTION: $50k → 8%UNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $11k → 10%ASIAN PACIFIC ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK ACTION: $20k → 12%PEOPLE'S ACTION POWER DBA OUR CITY ACTION BUFFALO: $40k → 13%MAMATOTO VILLAGE: $30k → 14%GEORGIA LATINO ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: $50k → 14%CITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK: $15k → 14%CASA IN ACTION INC: $30k → 11%MAKE THE ROAD STATES INC: $40k → 20%HMONG AMERICAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $25k → 17%VOCES DE LA FRONTERA: $50k → 17%CLIMATE AND COMMUNITY PROJECT: $100k → 10%CLIMATE AND COMMUNITY PROJECT: $100k → 10%COMMUNITY VOICES HEARD POWER INC: $25k → 17%VOCAL-NY ACTION FUND: $25k → 20%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of Working Families Organization Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Working Families Organization Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$36M · 85 repeat orgs$12M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +8% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

85 repeat relationships: 36 still active in FY2024, 49 since wound down; 60 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

85
97

Total granted

$36M
$8.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+6%

Still filing today

93%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.1M went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsEnvironmentHuman ServicesEducationPublic BenefitCommunity 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

  • GC
    Grassroots Collaborative
    4× · 2020–2023 · $990k · revenue +1% · 82% of their budget
  • AP
    Asian Pacific Environmental Network
    4× · 2020–2023 · $965k · revenue +46%
  • 9TO5 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKING WOMEN INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $906k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • WW
    WI WORKING FAMILIES PARTY IE
    one grant, 2020 · $1.1M
  • BA
    BE A HERO EDUCATION FUND INC
    one grant, 2022 · $571k · revenue +21% · 38% of their budget
  • WW
    WISCONSIN WORKING FAMILIES PARTY
    one grant, 2020 · $400k
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
Wepower

We activate community power to redesign social systems to be just and equitable for all through (1) developing and supporting leaders and organizations and (2) leading campaigns, coalitions, and innovative initiatives.

Community Improvement
3
Fund for Justice

Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…

Crime & Legal
4
New Jersey Citizen Action

To protect and expand the rights of citizens of the state of new jersey, and encourage active citizen involvement in campaigns promoting economic, social and racial equity.

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5
Organize for Justice

Organize for justice develops diverse campaign leadership by passing on innovations and relationships from one generation of organizers to the next. the organization strives to create public support on issues affecting working americans.

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6
Right to Democracy Project

Advance democracy, equity, and self-determination in U.S. territories through participatory advocacy, narrative and cultural change, and ecosystem building.

Civil Rights
7
Bold Impact

Bold Impact is a national nonprofit dedicated to supporting a democracy where all communities get to thrive.

Arts & Culture
8
Six Action

Six action realizes a bold policy agenda that secures and sustains meaningful racial, gender, social and economic justice outcomes that center the people most impacted by systemic and structural oppression. we support values-aligned state…

Civil Rights
9
Southern Coalition for Social Justice

Southern coalition for social justice partners with communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities across the south to defend and advance their political, social, and economic rights. through an intersectional and…

Crime & Legal
10
Climate Equity Action Fund

The climate equity action fund (ceaf) works hand-in-hand with community-based partners in critical states across the country to secure and sustain policy wins for climate and clean energy. building on over a decade of trust with leading…

Environment
11
Missouri Jobs With Justice Voter Action

To develop and advocate for legislation, regulations, ballot initiatives, and government programs as a voice of the working class, to promote social justice, and to stimulate the economy; and, to conduct research, educate the public, and…

Civil Rights
12
Alliance for Justice

Alliance for justice builds the strength of progressive movements by training and educating nonprofit organizations on advocacy, while harnessing their collective power to transform our state and federal courts.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (Vocal-Ny) Inc; the most unlike its peers is Joseph and Vera Zilber Family 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.
05the grantee network

226 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 226 of the 253 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
43
Early backer (in before they grew)
218/226
Grantees still filing
106/226
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WF PARTY BUILDING ACCOUNT: $3,700,000 · OtherWF PARTY BUILDING ACCOUNTWFP NATIONAL COMMITTEE PAC: $2,050,000 · OtherWFP NATIONAL COMMITTEE PACWI WORKING FAMILIES PARTY IE: $1,100,000 · OtherWORKING FAMILIES PARTY NATIONAL PAC: $1,096,800 · Other9TO5 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKING WOMEN INC: $905,650 · OtherTIDES ADVOCACY: $875,000 · OtherTHOUSAND CURRENTS: $805,000 · Other+96 more: $13,329,333 · Other+96 moreRIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE: $2,150,000 · Civil RightsRIGHT TO THE CIT…FLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC: $907,500 · Civil RightsFLORIDA RISING T…CENTER FOR CIVIC ACTION: $495,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR CIVIC…BOLD TRAINING INSTITUTE INC: $413,333 · Civil RightsBOLD TRAINING IN…INTERFAITH COUNCIL FOR PEACE & JUSTICE: $393,400 · Civil RightsUnited for Respect: $300,000 · Civil RightsNative Peoples Action Inc: $290,000 · Civil RightsGRASSROOTS GLOBAL JUSTICE: $265,000 · Civil Rights+26 more: $2,191,311 · Civil Rights+26 moreRENEW NEW ENGLAND ALLIANCE: $1,150,000 · EnvironmentRENEW NEW ENGL…Asian Pacific Environmental Network: $965,000 · EnvironmentAsian Pacific …NC WARN INC: $488,400 · EnvironmentNC WARN INCUS CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK: $485,000 · EnvironmentUS CLIMATE ACT…ALLIANCE FOR AFFORDABLE ENERGY: $450,000 · EnvironmentALLIANCE FOR A…WINDWARD FUND: $400,000 · EnvironmentWINDWARD FUNDTaproot Earth: $380,000 · EnvironmentTaproot EarthNorth Carolina Climate Justice Collective: $302,301 · EnvironmentGEORGIA CONSERVATION VOTERS ED FUND: $290,000 · EnvironmentAmazon Watch Inc: $275,000 · EnvironmentBETTER FUTURE ACTION: $260,000 · EnvironmentVOICES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE: $223,636 · Environment+8 more: $885,000 · Environment+8 morePROTEUS FUND INC: $1,015,000 · EducationPROTEUS FU…Grassroots Collaborative: $990,050 · EducationGrassroots…CHILDREN AND TEACHERS FOUNDATION OF THE CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION: $700,000 · EducationCHILDREN A…WEST VIRGINIA CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND: $610,000 · EducationWEST VIRGI…INDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK: $430,000 · EducationINDIGENOUS…Grassroots Power Project: $190,750 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $162,513 · Education+9 more: $559,250 · Education+9 moreCENTER FOR CIVIC POLICY: $615,100 · Public BenefitTAKEACTION MINNESOTA: $560,000 · Public BenefitKENTUCKY COALITION INC: $525,000 · Public BenefitSTATE DEMOCRACY PROJECT: $468,000 · Public BenefitTAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND: $345,000 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR PUBLIC ENTERPRISE INC: $200,000 · Public BenefitGreater New Orleans Housing Alliance: $200,000 · Public BenefitFAIR SHOT TEXAS: $150,000 · Public Benefit+2 more: $75,000 · Public BenefitNEW JERSEY WORKING FAMILIES ALLIANCE CORP: $686,313 · Community ImprovementNATIVE MOVEMENT: $670,000 · Community ImprovementIOWA CITIZENS FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT: $300,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION: $286,000 · Community ImprovementMAINE PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE: $217,000 · Community ImprovementNDN COLLECTIVE INC: $200,000 · Community ImprovementTEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND: $196,247 · Community ImprovementPOWER INTERFAITH INC: $130,000 · Community ImprovementNew York Communities Organizing Fund Inc: $115,000 · Community Improvement+5 more: $286,000 · Community ImprovementMOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT: $800,000 · Arts & CultureALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $549,000 · Arts & CultureBOREALIS PHILANTHROPY: $300,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$23,861,783Civil Rights$7,405,544Environment$6,554,337Education$4,657,563Public Benefit$3,138,100Community Improvement$3,086,560Arts & Culture$1,649,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE: $2,150,000 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetRENEW NEW ENGLAND ALLIANCE: $1,150,000 over 3y, 61% of budgetPROTEUS FUND INC: $1,015,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetGrassroots Collaborative: $990,050 over 4y, 82% of budgetAsian Pacific Environmental Network: $965,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetFLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC: $907,500 over 4y, 2.0% of budget9TO5 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKING WOMEN INC: $905,650 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetTIDES ADVOCACY: $875,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHOUSAND CURRENTS: $805,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetMOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT: $800,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetNEW JERSEY WORKING FAMILIES ALLIANCE CORP: $686,313 over 5y, 39% of budgetNATIVE MOVEMENT: $670,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetCENTER FOR CIVIC POLICY: $615,100 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND: $610,000 over 5y, 29% of budgetDEMOCRACYFIRST: $575,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetBE A HERO EDUCATION FUND INC: $571,250 over 1y, 38% of budgetKENTUCKIANS FOR THE COMMONWEALTH INC: $570,000 over 3y, 47% of budgetIronbound Community Corporation: $563,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetTAKEACTION MINNESOTA: $560,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $549,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetKENTUCKY COALITION INC: $525,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetCENTER FOR CIVIC ACTION: $495,000 over 4y, 30% of budgetNC WARN INC: $488,400 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetUS CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK: $485,000 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetSTATE DEMOCRACY PROJECT: $468,000 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA CITIZEN ACTION GROUP: $453,400 over 4y, 31% of budgetALLIANCE FOR AFFORDABLE ENERGY: $450,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $435,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetINDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK: $430,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetBOLD TRAINING INSTITUTE INC: $413,333 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetWINDWARD FUND: $400,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINTERFAITH COUNCIL FOR PEACE & JUSTICE: $393,400 over 3y, 60% of budgetALLIED MEDIA ACTION FUND: $388,200 over 3y, 36% of budgetTaproot Earth: $380,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetNEW JERSEY ORGANIZING PROJECT INC: $379,000 over 3y, 68% of budgetSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC: $375,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetGRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC: $365,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetPROJECT SOUTH INC: $355,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetTAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND: $345,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetGEORGIA LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS: $335,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetNorth Carolina Climate Justice Collective: $302,301 over 2y, 22% of budgetSolidaire Network Inc: $300,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBOREALIS PHILANTHROPY: $300,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUnited for Respect: $300,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetIOWA CITIZENS FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT: $300,000 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $300,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGIA CONSERVATION VOTERS ED FUND: $290,000 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetNative Peoples Action Inc: $290,000 over 3y, 33% 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.

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.

All Hands on Deck Net…Tides AdvocacySixteen Thirty FundWay to Win Action Fun…Open Society Action F…America VotesAmalgamated Charitabl…Windward FundTides FoundationUnited States Energy …Pro-Democracy CampaignCenter for Community …
All Hands on Deck Network IncMA119.8× affinity65 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Tides Advocacy · Sixteen Thirty Fund · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · Open Society Action Fund Inc · America Votes · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Windward Fund · Tides Foundation · United States Energy Foundation · Pro-Democracy Campaign · Center for Community Change Action

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 170%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 100%
  • Ironbound Community Corporation: 100% of income from government
  • Casa Inc: 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
17get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to Working Families Organization Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 253 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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