Iowa · Nonprofit
Center for Worker Justice of Eastern Iowa
Center for Worker Justice of Eastern Iowa (Iowa) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,073,926 to it, the largest being NORTHWEST AREA FOUNDATION ($200,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $145k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $0
What Center for Worker Justice of Eastern Iowa does
Mission
CWJ is organized around the following priority issues: workers rights to proper payment and safe work, protecting/improving housing options, ensuring equal access to community services for all residents, and empowering assistance to those affected by immigration policies.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Member empowerment. CWJ recruited members and hosted several empowerment opportunities such as English classes, computer literacy classes, heat and fatigue training, tenant know-your-rights workshops, food safety classes, and sewing classes. These events alone totaled over 150 attendees.
$197,018 spent40% of program spendingProtecting and improving housing options for low-income residents. Spent significant time and effort organizing manufactured home park residents in Johnson County. We hosted know-your-rights workshops, a fair housing legal advice clinic, tenant listening sessions, tenant association organizing meetings, and visited the Iowa State Legislature in conjunction with the Iowa Manufactured Home Residents Network for a Day at the Capitol. We also worked with 16 families and the City of Iowa City to maintain their access to Section 8 housing vouchers.
$145,269 spent30% of program spendingDefending workers rights to proper payment and safe work. Our community organizers took on cases throughout the past year recovering of stolen wages. By working with victims to file claims with regional and federal labor agencies, sending letters to employers, sending delegations and protests to businesses, CWJ was able to recover wages. We also collaborated with the University of Iowa Labor Center to host a worker education workshop series called Stepping Up for Iowas Future, a program focused, in part, on increasing workplace health safety amongst young construction workers.
$145,268 spent30% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $487,555.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $568k to $0 (−100%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2019 29% · 2020 20% · 2021 16% · 2022 34% · 2023 75% · 2024 29% · 2025 34%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $20k → $208k.
4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Center for Worker Justice of Eastern Iowa’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
Center for Worker Justice of Eastern Iowa has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
67% 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 Center for Worker Justice of Eastern Iowa.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 50% · 2020 54% · 2021 29% · 2022 28% · 2023 48% — broadly stable.
“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
75% of Center for Worker Justice of Eastern Iowa's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
Center for Worker Justice of Eastern Iowa draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $314k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states 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 Center for Worker Justice of Eastern Iowa
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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Center for Worker Justice of Eastern Iowa: 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 Center for Worker Justice of Eastern Iowa?
- Center for Worker Justice of Eastern Iowa (Iowa) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,073,926 to it, the largest being NORTHWEST AREA FOUNDATION ($200,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Center for Worker Justice of Eastern Iowa have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,073,926 in grants to Center for Worker Justice of Eastern Iowa, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Center for Worker Justice of Eastern Iowa?
- NORTHWEST AREA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Center for Worker Justice of Eastern Iowa find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 15 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