Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
AMERICA WORKS USA
AMERICA WORKS USA (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,238,461 to it, the largest being Road to Michigan's Future ($11,470,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $24M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $26M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What America Works USA does
Mission
The organization was established to promote social welfare by advocating for public policies that will lead to fiscally responsible goverment, economic development, and job creation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
AMERICA WORKS USA WORKED TO ADVANCE public policies that will lead to fiscally responsible government, economic development and job creation
$22,862,786 spentof which $7,125,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $22,862,786.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $678k to $1.3M (+98%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $500k → $5.6M.
2 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $15M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Guarantee Our Votes Project); $500k from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Civic Involvement Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money AMERICA WORKS USA raised.
From the IRS filings of AMERICA WORKS USA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 28 of 29 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AMERICA WORKS USA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AMERICA WORKS USA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 50% · 2020 90% · 2021 45% · 2022 86% · 2023 77% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
33% of AMERICA WORKS USA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 28% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
AMERICA WORKS USA draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $500k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like AMERICA WORKS USA
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 31 states
Part of a family of 7 related entities
- Guarantee Our Votes Project · exempt
- American Opportunity · exempt
- Democratic Governors Association · exempt
- Democratic Action · exempt
- Dga Action · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICA WORKS USA: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICA WORKS USA?
- AMERICA WORKS USA (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,238,461 to it, the largest being Road to Michigan's Future ($11,470,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICA WORKS USA have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $26,238,461 in grants to AMERICA WORKS USA, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICA WORKS USA?
- Road to Michigan's Future is the largest funder on record, with $11,470,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICA WORKS USA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 29 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing