Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION
SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,708,575 to it, the largest being SEIU LOCAL 2015 ($4,943,207). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $281M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $5.7M
- Net assets
- $350M
What Service Employees International Union does
Mission
Bargain collectively with employers to secure better working conditions, wages, and benefits for workers.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Supporting organizing and bargaining efforts for affiliates and members and political action and education.
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.
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 2018 to 2019, from $340M to $406M (+20%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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 → 2021: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $144k → $481k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.0M from 10 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Workers United). These are real filings, and they are not money SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION raised.
From the IRS filings of SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION’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
SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% 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
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 SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2019 100% · 2020 67% · 2021 94% — growing more concentrated.
“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
SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION
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.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- 1800 Massachusetts Avenue Corp · exempt
- Seiu Committee on Political Education · exempt
- Seiu Political Education & Action Fund · exempt
- United We Can · exempt
- United We Can Michigan · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION: 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 SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION?
- SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,708,575 to it, the largest being SEIU LOCAL 2015 ($4,943,207). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $5,708,575 in grants to SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION?
- SEIU LOCAL 2015 is the largest funder on record, with $4,943,207 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7 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