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In Union USA Action

In Union USA Action (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,840,000 to it, the largest being OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC ($2,000,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$50k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$4.8M
Net assets
$565k
5/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 94%
01What it does

What In Union USA Action does

Mission

In Union USA Action is a project supported by a group of unions. It provides you with easily available research on issues that affect working people's lives, examines the records of elected officials on those issues, and helps hold the elected officials accountable. It is not affiliated with, does not take contributions from, and does not make contributions to any candidates or political parties.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To date, In Union USA Action has communicated with millions of working-class voters across several states in support of policies and candidates that support working-class voters.

    $338,486 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $338,486.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($1.2M) Expenses 100 ($60k) Net assets 100 ($1.1M)2024 Revenue 102 ($1.2M) Expenses 2405 ($1.4M) Net assets 80 ($881k)2025 Revenue 4 ($50k) Expenses 609 ($366k) Net assets 51 ($565k)
202320242025
Revenue (4)Expenses (609)Net assets (51)

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 $881k to $565k (−36%).

$1.1M
$881k
$565k
202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.1M
’23
−$226k
’24
−$316k
’25
19
months of
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.

202320242025
Listed333
Joined·+0+0
No longer listed·00
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $750k → $1.1M.

Funder
'20
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
The Voter Projectunclassified
$750k
$70k
Pa Alliance Actionunclassified
$50k
funders
1
6
3
4
2

2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 In Union USA Action’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

In Union USA Action leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 In Union USA Action.

41%
largest funder
74%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 49% · 2023 89% — diversifying over time.

“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

In Union USA Action draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 7 states in all.

WA
MI
NY
OH
PA
CA
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’22
’23
Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $350k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like In Union USA Action

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 7%Fundraising 1%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

DC

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for In Union USA Action: 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 In Union USA Action?
In Union USA Action (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,840,000 to it, the largest being OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC ($2,000,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does In Union USA Action have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $4,840,000 in grants to In Union USA Action, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of In Union USA Action?
OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like In Union USA Action 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.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 11 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