Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
COWORKER SOLIDARITY FUND
COWORKER SOLIDARITY FUND (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $795,000 to it, the largest being OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC ($400,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $316k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $795k
- Net assets
- $278k
What Coworker Solidarity Fund does
Mission
To serve people who are organizing to improve their work lives and working conditions, to address their company's impact on the world, and/or to address structural inequality and concentrated power in their sector; to support workers' right to organize; to engage in public advocacy; and to provide infrastructure for groups to establish mutual aid funds in support of their fellow workers.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Starbucks worker fund - for the welfare of baristas building collective power, the Coworker Solidarity Fund mobilizes strategic and financial support, in the form of $2,500 stipends, for over 230 current and former starbucks baristas participating in workplace activism and organizing.
$65,000 spentof which $65,000 as grants40% of program spendingTechnology worker fund - in partnership with workplace activists in tech companies, this fund provides direct strategic and financial support, in the amount of $2,500 individual payments, for the welfare of tech industry workers, including gig economy and supply chain workers, who are building collective power for improvements in their industry.
$30,000 spentof which $30,000 as grants19% of program spendingGooglers fund - in partnership with google workplace activists, this fund mobilizes strategic and financial support in the form of individual stipends of $1000 to $3000 for google and alphabet employees participating in workplace activism and organizing.
$24,000 spentof which $24,000 as grants15% of program spendingOther programs
$41,640 spent26% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $160,640.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.2M to $295k (−74%).
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. 2 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.
Chief executive
Antonio Aguilera
Executive director
Board chair
Zhen Elizabeth Fong-Jones
President/board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $200k → $20k.
From the IRS filings of COWORKER SOLIDARITY FUND’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
COWORKER SOLIDARITY FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 COWORKER SOLIDARITY FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 43% · 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
COWORKER SOLIDARITY FUND draws 85% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 COWORKER SOLIDARITY FUND
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COWORKER SOLIDARITY FUND: 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 COWORKER SOLIDARITY FUND?
- COWORKER SOLIDARITY FUND (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $795,000 to it, the largest being OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC ($400,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COWORKER SOLIDARITY FUND have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $795,000 in grants to COWORKER SOLIDARITY FUND, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COWORKER SOLIDARITY FUND?
- OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COWORKER SOLIDARITY FUND 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 5 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