California · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR WORKERS' RIGHTS
CENTER FOR WORKERS' RIGHTS (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $487,749 to it, the largest being Legal Aid at Work ($247,696). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $850k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $488k
- Net assets
- $626k
What Center for Workers' Rights does
Mission
The Center for Workers' Rights strives to improve working conditions, reduce barriers to securing employment, and remedy workplace injustices for low wage workers in the greater sacramento area.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Covid related worker outreach - we continued to operate our coronavirus job protection helpline that was first launched in 2020 and we participated in a statewide outreach effort led by california's labor and workforce development agency to help workers stay safe during the pandemic. We provided information to thousands of workers in the greater sacramento region on permanent paid sick days, supplemental (covid) paid sick days, state disability insurance, paid family leave and workplace health and safety protections. Workers participated in trainings and received assistance in how to remedy workplace violations.
$453,189 spent66% of program spendingWage recovery - we use non-litigation strategies to combat wage theft. We file individual and collective cases at the ca labor commissioner's office. We have continued to operate our wage theft clinic, which investigates and prepares calculations of wages and penalties owed for low-wage workers. We met regularly with leadership from the labor commissioner's office to improve their procedures.
$130,464 spent19% of program spendingCreating lasting impact - the center for workers rights advocates for systemic change to improve workplace conditions and eliminate discrimination and abuse across industries. By analyzing thousands of worker conversations, the center identifies patterns of mistreatment and uses this knowledge to shape effective policies. As a collective voice for low-wage workers, the center collaborates with local, state, and federal agencies to ensure workplace protections are implemented equitably. The center also coordinates with coalitions and partners organizations.
$102,997 spent15% of program spendingWorkers' rights clinics - cwr continued to run its legal clinics with volunteer law students from uc davis and mcgeorge schools of law and volunteer supervising attorneys. The clinics provide accurate, applicable, and free information to working people on their rights when issues arise in the workplace through one on one consultations. We dedicate one clinic each week to those workers who were struggling to obtain or maintain their unemployment insurance benefits.
$92,969 earned by the program
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $686,650.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $362k to $617k (+70%).
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: 2020 41% · 2021 33% · 2022 44% · 2023 60% · 2024 74%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of CENTER FOR WORKERS' RIGHTS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (54% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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.
Board chair
Brittany Berzin
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $68k → $38.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 WORKERS' RIGHTS’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 WORKERS' RIGHTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
78% 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 WORKERS' RIGHTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 57% · 2021 57% · 2022 59% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
99% of CENTER FOR WORKERS' RIGHTS's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $53 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.
Against its field
CENTER FOR WORKERS' RIGHTS is better cushioned than half of the 2,276 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,276 employment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like CENTER FOR WORKERS' RIGHTS
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR WORKERS' RIGHTS: 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 WORKERS' RIGHTS?
- CENTER FOR WORKERS' RIGHTS (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $487,749 to it, the largest being Legal Aid at Work ($247,696). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR WORKERS' RIGHTS have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $487,749 in grants to CENTER FOR WORKERS' RIGHTS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR WORKERS' RIGHTS?
- Legal Aid at Work is the largest funder on record, with $247,696 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR WORKERS' RIGHTS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 7 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