Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
STRATEGIC ORGANIZING CENTER
STRATEGIC ORGANIZING CENTER (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,487,502 to it, the largest being AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS ($1,487,502). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $7.5M
What Strategic Organizing Center does
Mission
The Strategic Organizing Center is a campaign organization working with unions, allies and frontline workers to develop strategies and implement tactics on transformational campaigns that confront corporate power. The soc acts in coalition supporting many of the largest organizing initiatives being conducted in the labor movement.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Organizing assistance to affiliated labor organizations
Campaigns to support workers rights and interests
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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 $7.4M to $9.0M (+21%).
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.
20% of STRATEGIC ORGANIZING CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% 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
Michael Zucker
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of STRATEGIC ORGANIZING CENTER’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.
Where its funders are
100% of STRATEGIC ORGANIZING CENTER's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
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.
Against its field
STRATEGIC ORGANIZING CENTER holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 441 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 441 employment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like STRATEGIC ORGANIZING CENTER
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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Change to Win Political Education Account · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for STRATEGIC ORGANIZING CENTER: 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 STRATEGIC ORGANIZING CENTER?
- STRATEGIC ORGANIZING CENTER (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,487,502 to it, the largest being AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS ($1,487,502). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STRATEGIC ORGANIZING CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,487,502 in grants to STRATEGIC ORGANIZING CENTER.
- Who is the largest funder of STRATEGIC ORGANIZING CENTER?
- AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS is the largest funder on record, with $1,487,502 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STRATEGIC ORGANIZING CENTER 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 1 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