Minnesota · Nonprofit
CENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA
CENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA (Minnesota) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,857,102 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($2,016,625). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.4M
- Funders on record
- 62
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $4.2M
What Centro de Trabajadores Unidos En Lucha does
Mission
Ctul is a worker-led organization where workers organize, educate and empower each other to fight for a voice in their workplaces and in their communities. We partner with other organizations and leaders to build a movement to win racial, gender and economic justice. We identify the root causes of injustice and work to shift the balance of power between those who have it and those who don't to improve the lives of our communities for present and future generations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Program: leaders in growth (lig)this program delivers workers' rights education and other educational content regarding civic engagement, public speaking, and organizing for equitable social change. In 2025 this program delivered one or more these services to 245 people, all of them low-wage workers from underserved communities.
$2,461,121 spentof which $260,300 as grants$29,110 earned by the program100% of program spendingProgram "downtown"this program delivers workers' rights education and other educational content regarding civic engagement, public speaking, and organizing for equitable social change to workers employed in the amenities sectors of downtown minneapolis, minnesota. In 2025 this program delivered one or more these services to 512 people, all of them low-wage workers and the majority of them from underserved communities.
Program " construction"this program delivers workers' rights education and other educational content regarding civic engagement, public speaking, and organizing for equitable social change. In 2025 this program delivered one or more these services to 452 people, all of them low-wage construction workers from underserved communities.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,461,121.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 $4.0M to $2.2M (−45%).
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: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 10% · 2020 10% · 2021 11% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of CENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Brian Merle Payne
Executive director
Board chair
Douglas Guerra
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $546k → $2.2M.
14 of 62 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 CENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 62 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
CENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
54% 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 CENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 16% · 2018 21% · 2019 19% · 2020 25% · 2021 18% · 2022 18% · 2023 25% — growing more concentrated.
“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
49% of CENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
CENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA draws 55% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
Against its field
CENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,060 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,060 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA
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 Minnesota
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
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Centro de Trabajadores Unidos En la Lucha Action Fund · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA: 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 CENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA?
- CENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA (Minnesota) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,857,102 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($2,016,625). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA have?
- IRS filings report 62 organizations giving $13,857,102 in grants to CENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA?
- THE FORD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,016,625 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 62 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing