California · Nonprofit
The Laborers Pacific Southwest Regional Organizing Coalition
The Laborers Pacific Southwest Regional Organizing Coalition (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,600,000 to it, the largest being MIDWEST REGION ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ($875,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $23M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $94M
What The Laborers Pacific Southwest Regional Organizing Coalition does
Mission
to organize workers in the laborers international union of north America, afl-cio pacific southwest region through a coordinated program to maintain and improve employment opportunities for affiliated local union members and to recruit new members.
As stated on its FY2025 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. 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 2020 to 2021, from $58M to $68M (+16%).
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.
14% of The Laborers Pacific Southwest Regional Organizing Coalition’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. 0 of the last 9 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
John Zervas
Exec director - no ca
Board chair
Ernesto J Ordonez
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $225k → $175k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $100k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Northern California District Council of Laborers). These are real filings, and they are not money The Laborers Pacific Southwest Regional Organizing Coalition raised.
From the IRS filings of The Laborers Pacific Southwest Regional Organizing Coalition’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
The Laborers Pacific Southwest Regional Organizing Coalition leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% 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 The Laborers Pacific Southwest Regional Organizing Coalition.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 56% · 2021 60% · 2022 60% · 2023 100% — 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
The Laborers Pacific Southwest Regional Organizing Coalition draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state 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.
Against its field
The Laborers Pacific Southwest Regional Organizing Coalition runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 274 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 274 employment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Laborers Pacific Sw Regional Org PAC · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Laborers Pacific Southwest Regional Organizing Coalition: 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 The Laborers Pacific Southwest Regional Organizing Coalition?
- The Laborers Pacific Southwest Regional Organizing Coalition (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,600,000 to it, the largest being MIDWEST REGION ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ($875,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Laborers Pacific Southwest Regional Organizing Coalition have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,600,000 in grants to The Laborers Pacific Southwest Regional Organizing Coalition, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Laborers Pacific Southwest Regional Organizing Coalition?
- MIDWEST REGION ORGANIZING COMMITTEE is the largest funder on record, with $875,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Laborers Pacific Southwest Regional Organizing Coalition 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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