Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
LABOR COUNCIL FOR LATIN AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT
LABOR COUNCIL FOR LATIN AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,532,441 to it, the largest being AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS ($1,015,700). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $672k
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $838k
What Labor Council for Latin American Advancement does
Mission
To develop and promote the participation of workers of latin american descent in the trade union movement and the political process.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Regional conference - lclaa created a regional conference series to not only address the challenges and issues affecting the latino community, but also to continue to provide the training necessary to organize communities around those issues in order to be able to enact a more progressive agenda - one where latino and labor issues are a priority.
$387,545 spent$6,668 earned by the program53% of program spendingCommunications- lclaa has integrated its social networking platforms into its bilingual outreach strategy to disseminate communications to educate and mobilize the online communities into action. In addition, during 2012, lclaa launched its national latino workers blog. Regularly updated, the blog covers developments on key topics for latino working families, including social security and medicare, the environment and green jobs, health care, young workers, labor issues and immigration.
$128,867 spent18% of program spendingMembership - lclaa fights for the social, political, and economic advancement of the latino community and they firmly believe that all workers deserve quality jobs with living wages nationwide. Lclaaeducates workers about their rights and promotes the political participation of latino working families. The dues paying members receive information about policy and advocacy campaigns, participate in local events, and have a voice during lclaa's national conventions, local chapter elections and meetings.
$89,714 spentof which $2,550 as grants12% of program spendingPolicy and advocacy - the program supports and implements lclaa's policy priorities and research, which focuses on addressing many critical issues that affect the latino community including immigration, healthcare, education, collective bargaining, government accountability, and civil rights among others.
$67,307 spentof which $200 as grants9% of program spendingCampaigns - lclaa is committed to pioneering solutions to advance the social, economic, and political welfare of the hispanic community and to the americas as a whole in the areas of education, government, the economy and infrastructure improvement, immigration, trade and economic development, global warming, and job growth. By anticipating emerging issues and through creative partnerships, lclaa establishes new angles of inquiry in order to provide a roadmap for responses by government, labor, and society; taking into account the unique needs of burgeoning hispanic demographics.
$56,557 spent8% of program spendingCivic participation - the civic participation program was related to funding in order to provide our chapters funding for their voter registration and get-out-the vote (gotv) programs.
$491 spent0% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $730,481.
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 2019 to 2020, from $345k to $604k (+75%).
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: 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of LABOR COUNCIL FOR LATIN AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (99% 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
Jose Vargas
Executive director until may
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $225k → $353k.
2 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 LABOR COUNCIL FOR LATIN AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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
LABOR COUNCIL FOR LATIN AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 59%; 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 LABOR COUNCIL FOR LATIN AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 42% · 2019 48% · 2020 38% · 2021 39% · 2022 32% · 2023 29% — 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.
How long its funders stay
32% of LABOR COUNCIL FOR LATIN AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
80% of LABOR COUNCIL FOR LATIN AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $278k 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
LABOR COUNCIL FOR LATIN AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT is better cushioned than half of the 1,798 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,798 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like LABOR COUNCIL FOR LATIN AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Lclaa Si Podemos Fund · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LABOR COUNCIL FOR LATIN AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT?
- LABOR COUNCIL FOR LATIN AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,532,441 to it, the largest being AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS ($1,015,700). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LABOR COUNCIL FOR LATIN AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $2,532,441 in grants to LABOR COUNCIL FOR LATIN AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LABOR COUNCIL FOR LATIN AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT?
- AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS is the largest funder on record, with $1,015,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LABOR COUNCIL FOR LATIN AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 31 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