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TENANTS AND WORKERS UNITED

TENANTS AND WORKERS UNITED (Virginia) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,190,173 to it, the largest being ACT FOR ALEXANDRIA ($741,700). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.3M
Funders on record
28
Grants received
$3.2M
Net assets
$1.3M
15/28 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 81%
01What it does

What Tenants and Workers United does

Mission

Tenants and Workers United is a democratically controlled, grassroots organization committed to winning social and economic justice for all people in northern virginia-latinos, african americans, tenants, immigrants, workers, youth and low income people.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Community organizing for lower income students and residents to expand work, health care and educational opportunities.

    $540,480 spent$8,271 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $540,480.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($175k) Expenses 100 ($138k) Net assets 100 ($173k)2018 Revenue 171 ($301k) Expenses 167 ($230k) Net assets 141 ($243k)2019 Revenue 153 ($268k) Expenses 205 ($282k) Net assets 133 ($229k)2020 Revenue 648 ($1.1M) Expenses 623 ($859k) Net assets 294 ($507k)2021 Revenue 431 ($755k) Expenses 423 ($584k) Net assets 393 ($678k)2022 Revenue 523 ($917k) Expenses 497 ($685k) Net assets 528 ($911k)2023 Revenue 321 ($563k) Expenses 521 ($718k) Net assets 438 ($756k)2024 Revenue 768 ($1.3M) Expenses 552 ($762k) Net assets 765 ($1.3M)
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Revenue (768)Expenses (552)Net assets (765)Peer revenue range

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 $1.5M to $2.0M (+36%).

$1.1M
$1.0M
$979k
$1.3M
$1.4M
$1.6M
$1.5M
$2.0M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 46% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

97% of TENANTS AND WORKERS UNITED’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$38k
’17
$71k
’18
−$14k
’19
$277k
’20
$172k
’21
$232k
’22
−$155k
’23
$586k
’24
13
months of
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

Evelin Urrutia

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed67777777
Joined·+3+2+1+1+2+3+3
No longer listed·2211233
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $85k → $429k.

7 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 TENANTS AND WORKERS UNITED’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

TENANTS AND WORKERS UNITED 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

72% 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 TENANTS AND WORKERS UNITED.

23%
largest funder
61%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 73% · 2019 41% · 2020 64% · 2021 35% · 2022 40% · 2023 42% — 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

33% of TENANTS AND WORKERS UNITED's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

61% of TENANTS AND WORKERS UNITED's grant income comes from Virginia funders.

NY
MA
IN
NJ
CA
VA
MD
DC
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $947k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

TENANTS AND WORKERS UNITED runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin43% · top quartile
Months of reserve12.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)34% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like TENANTS AND WORKERS UNITED

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 Virginia

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

71% of spending goes to programs.

Program 71%Management 29%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
86%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

91%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

VA

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Questions and answers

Who funds TENANTS AND WORKERS UNITED?
TENANTS AND WORKERS UNITED (Virginia) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,190,173 to it, the largest being ACT FOR ALEXANDRIA ($741,700). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TENANTS AND WORKERS UNITED have?
IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $3,190,173 in grants to TENANTS AND WORKERS UNITED, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TENANTS AND WORKERS UNITED?
ACT FOR ALEXANDRIA is the largest funder on record, with $741,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TENANTS AND WORKERS UNITED find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 28 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