California · Nonprofit
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR WORKERS RIGHTS
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR WORKERS RIGHTS (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $288,803 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($172,303). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $810k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $289k
- Net assets
- $717k
What National Institute for Workers Rights does
Mission
The national institute for workers' rights (the institute) mission is to advance workers' rights through research, thought leadership, and education for policymakers, advocates, and the public. The institute will achieve its mission through a multidisciplinary approach in combination with innovative legal strategies, policy development, grassroots advocacy, and public education.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The mission of the national institute for workers' rights (the institute) is to advance workers' rights through research, thought leadership, and education for policymakers, advocates, and the public.founded in 2008, the institute is the related charitable public interest organization of the national employment lawyers association (nela). Working hand in hand with nela, the institute seeks to create a future in which workers will be paid at least a living wage in an environment free of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and capricious employment decisions; employers will fulfill their promises to provide retirement, health, and other benefits; workers' safety will not be compromised for the sake of corporate profits and interests; and individuals will have effective legal representation to enforce their rights to a fair and just workplace, adequate remedies, and access to the courts to vindicate their workplace rights when they are violated.as the nation's employee rights advocacy think tank, the institute influences the broad, macro conversations that shape employment law. We conduct research, develop resources, and educate advocates, judges, the media, policymakers, and…
$274,574 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $274,574.
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 $359k to $725k (+102%).
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 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR WORKERS RIGHTS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (54% for the typical peer).
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $33k → $50k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 INSTITUTE FOR WORKERS RIGHTS’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
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR WORKERS RIGHTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
71% 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 INSTITUTE FOR WORKERS RIGHTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 65% · 2021 59% · 2022 100% · 2023 40% — 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
71% of NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR WORKERS RIGHTS'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 $85k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $204k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR WORKERS RIGHTS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,276 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,276 employment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR WORKERS RIGHTS
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
58%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- National Employment Lawyers Association · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR WORKERS RIGHTS: 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 INSTITUTE FOR WORKERS RIGHTS?
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR WORKERS RIGHTS (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $288,803 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($172,303). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR WORKERS RIGHTS have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $288,803 in grants to NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR WORKERS RIGHTS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR WORKERS RIGHTS?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $172,303 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR WORKERS RIGHTS 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 4 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