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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 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.

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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $1,066,043, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,213,325 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $147,282 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 $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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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. Its 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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +100% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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
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

  • 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%
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
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
Silicon Valley Rising Action

Silicon Valley Rising Action takes on occupational segregation and income inequality with a comprehensive campaign to raise wages, create affordable housing, and build a tech economy that works for everyone.

—
3
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
4
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
5
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
6
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
7
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
8
Legal Link

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

Crime & Legal
9
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
10
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,…

—
11
California Center for Movement Legal Services

The California Center for Movement Legal Services (Movement Legal) provides legal services in the pursuit of improving the lives of California's traditionally underserved residents, carrying out legal work that fosters community led policy…

Crime & Legal
12
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…

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc; the most unlike its peers is Collins Foundations. 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

33 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. 33 of the 34 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
23/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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 budgetCENTER ON POLICY INITIATIVES: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetUnited for Respect Education Fund: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLatinos United for a New America: $15,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetMONUMENT IMPACT: $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNorth Bay Organizing Project: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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
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.

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

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 Partnerships USA funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Working Partnerships USA. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's 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
    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 34 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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