Massachusetts · Nonprofit
Teamsters Defending Democracy & Workers Rights
Teamsters Defending Democracy & Workers Rights (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $950,000 to it, the largest being WAY TO WIN ACTION FUND INC ($850,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $951k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $950k
- Net assets
- $0
What Teamsters Defending Democracy & Workers Rights does
Mission
Teamsters Defending Democracy and Workers Rights is a 501c4 dedicated to educating and uniting workers and the public to defend and advance democracy and workers' rights. Teamsters Defending Democracy and Workers Rights is independent of the IBT.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
History Project. - TDDWR sponsored the development and production of short documentary videos and a history exhibit on the history of the reform movement in the Teamsters Union and its impact on reform movements in other unions and the labovement movement as a whole.
$457,095 spent52% of program spendingEducational Workshops. TDDWR conducted nonpartisan educational workshops on workplace rights, labor history, and economic inequality at a national conference for union and nonunion workers in November 2025. Educating Workers on Presidential Election Choices. TDDWR educated workers on the political positions of 2024 presidential candidates through workplace canvassing, neighborhood canvassing, videos, and social media.
$346,532 spent40% of program spendingEducational Scholarships. TDDWR provided scholarships to union and nonunion workers to participate in educational workshops on workplace rights at a national conference in the fall of 2024. Educational Conferences. TDDWR sponsored regional educational conferences in the Northeast, Midwest, Northern California, and Southern Ohio with educational workshops on workers' rights in the workplace.
$68,879 spent8% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $872,506.
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 Teamsters Defending Democracy & 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
Teamsters Defending Democracy & Workers Rights leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 Teamsters Defending Democracy & Workers Rights.
“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
Teamsters Defending Democracy & Workers Rights draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 2 states in all.
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 Teamsters Defending Democracy & 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Teamsters Defending Democracy & 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 Teamsters Defending Democracy & Workers Rights?
- Teamsters Defending Democracy & Workers Rights (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $950,000 to it, the largest being WAY TO WIN ACTION FUND INC ($850,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Teamsters Defending Democracy & Workers Rights have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $950,000 in grants to Teamsters Defending Democracy & Workers Rights.
- Who is the largest funder of Teamsters Defending Democracy & Workers Rights?
- WAY TO WIN ACTION FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $850,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Teamsters Defending Democracy & Workers Rights find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 2 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