California · Nonprofit
Garment Worker Center
Garment Worker Center (California) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,615,809 to it, the largest being LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION ($1,400,250). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $4.6M
- Net assets
- $7.7M
What Garment Worker Center does
Mission
The Garment Worker Center (gwc) is a worker rights organization leading an anti-sweatshop movement to improve conditions for tens of thousands of los angeles garment workers. Through direct organizing, gwc develops leaders who demand enforcement of strong labor laws and accountability from factory owners, manufacturers, and fashion brands. We center immigrant workers, women of color, and their families who are impacted by exploitation in the fashion industry.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2023 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
LINE 2 - NEW PROGRAM SERVICES UNDERTAKEN DURING THE YEAR The GWC embarked on a historic new partnership with the Department of Industrial Relations, entitled the Garment Worker Wage Claim Pilot Project, for worker outreach, training, and legal representation on wage and hour rights and remedies. The program also includes youth outreach and training. We provided outreach planning, training curriculum development, and case management for the program accomplishments described below. LINE 4A - PROGRAM SERVICE ACCOMPLISHMENTS Worker Education and Training: We held approximately 82 workshops and trainings with approximately 300 workers and completed approximately 162 hours of training in worker rights, organizing strategies, occupational health and safety, public health, garment industry structure and trends, campaign development, media work, mental health, and worker-owned cooperative development. We conducted 1-1 organizing consultations with approximately 149 workers. We also reached approximately 6200 workers with educational materials by flyering outside of garment factories and at public locations within the garment district, and via mass text. Legal Representation: We assisted 76 workers with wage claims, including wage calculations, filling out forms and demand letters, negotiations, hearings, and recovery. Policy Advocacy: We spent approximately 846 hours researching and advocating for improvements to federal and local labor laws applicable to garment workers. Support…
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
LINE 2 - NEW PROGRAM SERVICES UNDERTAKEN DURING THE YEAR The GWC embarked on a historic new partnership with the Department of Industrial Relations, entitled the Garment Worker Wage Claim Pilot Project, for worker outreach, training, and legal representation on wage and hour rights and remedies. The program also includes youth outreach and training. We provided outreach planning, training curriculum development, and case management for the program accomplishments described below. LINE 4A - PROGRAM SERVICE ACCOMPLISHMENTS Worker Education and Training: We held approximately 82 workshops and trainings with approximately 300 workers and completed approximately 162 hours of training in worker rights, organizing strategies, occupational health and safety, public health, garment industry structure and trends, campaign development, media work, mental health, and worker-owned cooperative development. We conducted 1-1 organizing consultations with approximately 149 workers. We also reached approximately 6200 workers with educational materials by flyering outside of garment factories and at public locations within the garment district, and via mass text. Legal Representation: We assisted 76…
$1,987,153 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,987,153.
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 2023 to 2024, from $673k to $11M (+1588%).
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: 2018 3% · 2022 9% · 2023 35% · 2024 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Garment Worker Center’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Marissa Nuncio
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $103k → $1.2M.
5 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 Garment Worker Center’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 23 of 24 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
Garment Worker Center has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% 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
70% 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 Garment Worker Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 46% · 2019 84% · 2020 23% · 2021 21% · 2022 38% · 2023 38% — 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
57% of Garment Worker Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
50% of Garment Worker Center's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2.3M that is directly attributable, 60% of it comes from funders outside California, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Garment Worker Center runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,288 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,288 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding Garment Worker Center receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $80k on record.
- Department of Labor$80k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Garment Worker Center
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Garment Worker Center: 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 Garment Worker Center?
- Garment Worker Center (California) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,615,809 to it, the largest being LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION ($1,400,250). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Garment Worker Center have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $4,615,809 in grants to Garment Worker Center, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Garment Worker Center?
- LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,400,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Garment Worker Center 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 24 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