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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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$363k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Community Improvement$2.1MEmployment$2.0MCrime & Legal$1.7MHuman Services$844kFood & Nutrition$197kPublic Benefit$83kCivil Rights$80kArts & Culture$77kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 9 grants below total $1,066,043 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,213,325 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $147,282 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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $276k
  • $250k+2 grants · $708k
$60,513
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Step Forward Foundation$363,043
San Mateo County Union Com Al$345,004
The Prosperity Lab$87,302
Enterprise Foundation Inc$78,262
Tradeswomen Inc$60,513
Day Worker Center of MV$50,305
Vietnamese American Roundatab$47,614
Somos Mayfair$27,500
Valley Health Foundation$6,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%San Mateo County Union Com Al: $345k → 7%Center on Policy Initiatives: $20k → 11%San Mateo County Union Com Al: $288k → 7%San Mateo County Union Com Al: $263k → 7%San Mateo County Union Com Al: $237k → 7%Sn Mateo Cnty Union Comm Alli: $20k → 7%Sacred Heart Community Svc: $15k → 8%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 edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.9M · 21 repeat orgs$252k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +100% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
12

Total granted

$6.9M
$246k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+100%
+26%

Still filing today

100%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
Community ImprovementHuman ServicesEmploymentCivil RightsHealthArts & CultureOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • SF
    STEP FORWARD FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +203%
  • VA
    VIETNAMESE AMERICAN ROUNDTABLE
    6× · 2019–2024 · $418k · revenue +125% · 52% of their budget
  • TP
    THE PROSPERITY LAB
    5× · 2020–2024 · $413k · revenue +401% · 43% of their budget

Funded once

  • WI
    Worksafe Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $53k
  • CF
    COLLINS FOUNDATIONS
    one grant, 2021 · $28k · revenue -94%
  • National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +1%

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

04Your 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.

1
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…

Health
2
Unitedly

Unitedly is a nonprofit organization based in San Mateo County, California. Unitedly was established to ensure Asian families and communities have access to equitable opportunities and resources to thrive in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Human Services
3
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates Inc

Asian Immigrant Women Advocates empowers low-income, limited English speaking immigrant women and youth through education, leadership development and civic participation programs.

Human Services
4
Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy

CAUSE's mission is to build grassroots power to realize social, economic and environmental justice for the people of the Central Coast Region through policy research, leadership development, organizing and advocacy.

Community Improvement
5
Fuerza LaboralPower of Workers

Fuerza Laboral is a workers' rights center whose mission is to shift the balance of power in our economy in favor of workers by educating, training, and organizing workers to become community leaders; taking direct action to recover unpaid…

Education
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
Coalition for Responsible and Equitable Economic Development Los Angeles

To ensure that the workers in the construction industry in Los Angeles are highly trained and professional. The organization seeks the creation of good jobs, safety for workers, health care and a secure retirement for working families.

Community Improvement
8
Sf Partnership

SF Partnership is an organization comprised of SF's leading employers dedicated to supporting an equitable, resilient, and vibrant economy shared by all people working and living in San Francisco. Through education, advocacy, and research,…

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9
Legal Link

Legal Link removes legal barriers that prolong poverty by adding critically needed capacity to the legal ecosystem.

Crime & Legal
10
Santa Cruz Local Inc

Independent nonpartisan newsroom serving Santa Cruz County, California we are all watching and engaged in our local government, our needs are addressed, democracy works better and our community is stronger.

—
11
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…

—
12
Cooperation L a

The L.A. Co-op Lab is a collective that builds capacity for worker ownership in Los Angeles as a pathway toward a more equitable and democratic economy.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sacred Heart Community Service. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr15%13%5–10yr20%25%10–20yr18%38%20–35yr12%25%35–55yr12%0%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr15%13%5–10yr20%44%10–20yr18%36%20–35yr12%7%35–55yr12%0%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/34
the rest of the field
13%
13,416/99,716

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

33 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 34 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
23/33
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Enterprise Foundation — $474,904 · Community ImprovementEnterprise FoundationVIETNAMESE AMERICAN ROUNDTABLE — $417,918 · Community ImprovementVIETNAMESE AMERICAN ROUNDTABLETHE PROSPERITY LAB — $413,129 · Community ImprovementTHE PROSPERITY LABCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $199,500 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY PARTNERSSOMOS MAYFAIR INC — $163,950 · Community ImprovementSOMOS MAYFAIR INCPOWERSWITCH ACTION — $121,181 · Community ImprovementPOWERSWITCH ACTIONTradeswomen Incorporated — $103,633 · Community ImprovementKOREAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADVOCATES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $77,054 · Community Improvement+2 more — $25,000 · Community ImprovementSTEP FORWARD FOUNDATION — $1,634,121 · Crime & LegalSTEP FORWARD FOUNDATIONSilicon Valley Rising Action — $450,000 · OtherSilicon Valley Rising …DAY WORKER CENTER OF MOUNTAIN VIEW — $410,302 · OtherDAY WORKER CENTER OF M…NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT LAW PROJECT — $112,000 · OtherNATIONAL EMPLOYMENT LA…Worksafe Inc — $96,150 · OtherWorksafe IncSF CLOUT — $76,811 · OtherSF CLOUTWorksafe Inc — $53,215 · Other+8 more — $188,240 · Other+8 moreSan Mateo County Union Community Alliance — $1,153,702 · Human ServicesSan Mateo County U…+2 more — $35,000 · Human ServicesHuman Agenda — $365,004 · Arts & CultureLatinos United for a New America — $15,000 · Arts & CultureWarehouse Worker Resource Center — $164,571 · EmploymentJobs with Justice San Francisco — $131,666 · EmploymentMONUMENT IMPACT — $15,000 · EmploymentEast Bay Alliance For A Sustainable Economy — $230,766 · Public Benefit
Community Improvement$1,996,269Crime & Legal$1,634,121Other$1,386,718Human Services$1,188,702Arts & Culture$380,004Employment$311,237Public Benefit$230,766

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSTEP FORWARD FOUNDATION — $1,634,121 over 6y, 22% of budgetSan Mateo County Union Community Alliance — $1,153,702 over 5y, 38% of budgetEnterprise Foundation — $474,904 over 6y, 8.9% of budgetSilicon Valley Rising Action — $450,000 over 2y, 54% of budgetVIETNAMESE AMERICAN ROUNDTABLE — $417,918 over 6y, 52% of budgetTHE PROSPERITY LAB — $413,129 over 5y, 43% of budgetDAY WORKER CENTER OF MOUNTAIN VIEW — $410,302 over 6y, 11% of budgetHuman Agenda — $365,004 over 5y, 18% of budgetEast Bay Alliance For A Sustainable Economy — $230,766 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $199,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWarehouse Worker Resource Center — $164,571 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetSOMOS MAYFAIR INC — $163,950 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetJobs with Justice San Francisco — $131,666 over 3y, 10% of budgetPOWERSWITCH ACTION — $121,181 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL EMPLOYMENT LAW PROJECT — $112,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTradeswomen Incorporated — $103,633 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetWorksafe Inc — $96,150 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetKOREAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADVOCATES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $77,054 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSF CLOUT — $76,811 over 2y, 11% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS — $41,740 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY — $37,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCOLLINS FOUNDATIONS — $27,500 over 1y, 18% of budgetNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited for Respect Education Fund — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER ON POLICY INITIATIVES — $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLatinos United for a New America — $15,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetNorth Bay Organizing Project — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMONUMENT IMPACT — $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUrban Habitat Program — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNorth Bay Jobs With Justice — $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetVALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION (VHF) — $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The James Irvine Foun…Silicon Valley Commun…Tides CenterThe San Francisco Fou…East Bay Community Fo…Tides FoundationKorean Immigrant Work…Powerswitch ActionThe California Endowm…United Way of the Bay…Amalgamated Charitabl…Latino Community Foun…
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

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 Working Partnerships USA 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 34 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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