New York · Nonprofit
NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT LAW PROJECT
NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT LAW PROJECT (New York) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,530,260 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($19,517,083). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.9M
- Funders on record
- 57
- Grants received
- $87M
- Net assets
- $16M
What National Employment Law Project does
Mission
To build a just and inclusive economy where all workers have expansive rights and thrive in good jobs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
To ensure that all who work or aspire to do so will achieve and sustain economic security, opportunity and prosperity through their labor. To protect and expand workers' rights and benefits; stregthen the power of workers; and to dismantle barriers to opportunity due to structural biases and economic inequalities.
$11,650,109 spentof which $2,722,765 as grants$227,620 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $11,650,109.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $22M to $37M (+69%).
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: 2020 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Rebecca Dixon
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2024 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 18 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $7.0M → $11M.
11 of 57 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT LAW PROJECT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 57 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
NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT LAW PROJECT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
36% 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 NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT LAW PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 52% · 2019 31% · 2020 22% · 2021 26% · 2022 29% · 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
38% of NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT LAW PROJECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
68% of NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT LAW PROJECT's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15M 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.
Organizations like NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT LAW PROJECT
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
48%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT LAW PROJECT: 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 NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT LAW PROJECT?
- NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT LAW PROJECT (New York) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,530,260 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($19,517,083). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT LAW PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 57 organizations giving $86,530,260 in grants to NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT LAW PROJECT, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT LAW PROJECT?
- THE FORD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $19,517,083 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT LAW PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 57 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