How much does Working Partnerships USA give?

Working Partnerships USA reported 9 itemized grants totaling $1,066,043, out of $1,213,325 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Working Partnerships USA fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (29%), Employment (28%), Crime & Legal (23%).

Who are Working Partnerships USA's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Step Forward Foundation ($1.6M), San Mateo County Union Community Alliance ($1.2M), Enterprise Foundation ($475k).

Does Working Partnerships USA fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Working Partnerships USA?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The James Irvine Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Tides Center.

Where is Working Partnerships USA based?

Working Partnerships USA is based in CA.

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Working Partnerships USA

Working Partnerships USA is a community organization bringing together the power of grassroots organizing and public policy innovation to drive the movement for a just economy. We build the capacity of workers, low-income neighborhoods and communities of color to lead and govern. Based in Silicon Valley, we tackle the root causes of…

$1.2M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 9
Itemized grants FY2024: 10
Organizations funded FY2023: 0%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $1.1M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $60,513
Largest grant, FY2024: $363,043
Organizations funded a year: 5 to 20; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 1
Total assets, FY2024: $9.3M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Working Partnerships USA 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.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Community ImprovementHuman ServicesEmploymentCivil RightsArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	9	$1.1M	11%
FY2023	10	$1.1M	0%
FY2022	15	$1.2M	20%
FY2021	20	$1.8M	30%
FY2020	15	$1.1M	20%
FY2019	11	$246k	91%
FY2018	10	$387k	60%
FY2017	5	$220k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

Community Improvement$2.1MEmployment$2.0MCrime & Legal$1.7MHuman Services$844kFood & Nutrition$197kPublic Benefit$83kCivil Rights$80kArts & Culture$77kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Step Forward Foundation	$1,634,121	6	22%
San Mateo County Union Community Alliance	$1,153,702	5	38%
Enterprise Foundation	$474,904	6	9%
Silicon Valley Rising Action	$450,000	2	54%
Vietnamese American Roundtable	$417,918	6	52%
The Prosperity Lab	$413,129	5	43%
Day Worker Center of Mountain View	$410,302	6	11%
Human Agenda	$365,004	5	18%
East Bay Alliance For A Sustainable Economy	$230,766	4	5%
Community Partners	$199,500	5	0%

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All grantees of Working Partnerships USA by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Step Forward Foundation	$1,634,121	6	22%
San Mateo County Union Community Alliance	$1,153,702	5	38%
Enterprise Foundation	$474,904	6	9%
Silicon Valley Rising Action	$450,000	2	54%
Vietnamese American Roundtable	$417,918	6	52%
The Prosperity Lab	$413,129	5	43%
Day Worker Center of Mountain View	$410,302	6	11%
Human Agenda	$365,004	5	18%
East Bay Alliance For A Sustainable Economy	$230,766	4	5%
Community Partners	$199,500	5	0%
Warehouse Worker Resource Center	$164,571	3	9%
Somos Mayfair Inc	$163,950	4	2%
Jobs with Justice San Francisco	$131,666	3	10%
Powerswitch Action	$121,181	4	0%
National Employment Law Project	$112,000	3	1%
Tradeswomen Incorporated	$103,633	3	6%
Worksafe Inc	$96,150	3	7%
Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates of Southern California	$77,054	2	1%
Sf Clout	$76,811	2	11%
Worksafe Inc	$53,215	1	n/a
Center for Empowered Politics	$41,740	3	1%
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy	$37,500	2	0%
Collins Foundations	$27,500	1	18%
National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Center on Policy Initiatives	$20,000	1	1%
United for Respect Education Fund	$20,000	1	0%
Chinese Progressive Association	$20,000	1	0%
Sacred Heart Community Service	$15,000	1	0%
Latinos United for a New America	$15,000	1	9%
Monument Impact	$15,000	1	1%
North Bay Organizing Project	$15,000	1	0%
Urban Habitat Program	$10,000	1	1%
North Bay Jobs With Justice	$10,000	1	4%
Valley Health Foundation (Vhf)	$6,500	1	0%

Working Partnerships USA supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 33 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 33.

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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.

The James Irvine FoundationCA28.7× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The James Irvine Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tides Center · The San Francisco Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates of Southern California · Powerswitch Action · The California Endowment · United Way of the Bay Area · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Latino Community Foundation

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.

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About Working Partnerships USA

How much does Working Partnerships USA give?: Working Partnerships USA reported 9 itemized grants totaling $1,066,043, out of $1,213,325 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Working Partnerships USA fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (29%), Employment (28%), Crime & Legal (23%).
Who are Working Partnerships USA's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Step Forward Foundation ($1.6M), San Mateo County Union Community Alliance ($1.2M), Enterprise Foundation ($475k).
Does Working Partnerships USA fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Working Partnerships USA?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The James Irvine Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Tides Center.
Where is Working Partnerships USA based?: Working Partnerships USA is based in CA.