California · Nonprofit
Together in Service
Together in Service (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $159,389 to it, the largest being PROTEUS FUND INC ($78,750). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $310k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $159k
- Net assets
- $251k
What Together in Service does
Mission
SWOPLA stands for Sex Workers Outreach Project Los Angeles. We are a peer support organization, run by sex workers and for sex workers. Our mission is to pursue our human rights to bodily autonomy, racial and social justice, and mutual liberation through outreach, education, mutual aid and political advocacy. Our vision is to usher in the reality where all sex workers are respected.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
SWLEARN - Sex Worker Lived Experience Affirming Research Network -- Collaborating with UCLA, UCSF, and two other Los Angeles-based community organizations, Together in Service is undergoing a multi-year HIV intervention adaptation and implementation science research project. We are aiming to administer a six-session workshop series to over 100 trans women of color who do sex work in Los Angeles county and measure how effective that workshop series is in improving several public health-related outcomes, including relating to HIV treatment and prevention. In 2024, we finished adapting the intervention we had chosen using the ADAPT-ITT framework, prepared to begin running the sessions, prepared materials for Institutional Review Board approval, and scheduled a site visit with the funder, California HIV/AIDS Research Program. In the longer term, we hope this project will both provide a tested workshop series for people to run in the future, as well as help to show that research based on community collaborations that is led by the sub-population of interest can lead to higher quality research overall.
$49,518 spent30% of program spendingSWANS - Sex Worker Abortion Navigation Services -- Thanks to California's Abortion Practical Support Fund (and the elbow grease of our stipended volunteers -- & the unpaid volunteers who came before them), we are able to help provide practical support to sex workers facing difficult circumstances who are seeking to obtain lawful abortions in California. We have a team of peer navigators who are trained and equipped to help arrange--and pay for, as necessary--appointments, after care, childcare, lodging, transportion, or any other urgent needs that are preventing someone from obtaining an abortion. In 2024, we helped connect dozens of people to sexual and reproductive health services, including by directly aiding clients seeking abortion care, and helped train several sex workers in how to assist members of their communities in obtaining reproductive health care.
$69,465 spent42% of program spendingSex Worker Parent Project - In 2024, our Sex Worker Parent Project published the Magazine "ProMomme: A Sex Workers' Guide to Parenting", and worked on filming a documentary about the process of creating and publishing "ProMomme." The Zine was published in August of 2024, with co-publishers Sming Sming and Cash Machine; and we held a reading of works from the Zine at Cash Machine's storefront, featuring dozens of audience members. We aim to finish and promote the documentary, and to publish a second volume of "ProMomme," featuring more voices from our under-represented community. In the long term, we hope to build community between sex worker parents, and destigmatize the choices of sex workers to have kids or of parents to do sex work.
$17,412 spent10% of program spendingIn addition to our three largest programs, we offer a wide variety of programming in the areas of community building, outreach, direct service provision, and art, research, public education, and political advocacy. Our longest running programs include our monthly general meetings, bi-weekly virtual support groups, regular community building events like potlucks and clothing swaps, and our website where users can find our Bad Date List and extensive and regularly updated resource list.
$30,642 spent18% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $167,037.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 Together in Service’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
Together in Service leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
98% 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 Together in Service.
“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
89% of Together in Service's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $18k that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $142k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Against its field
Together in Service runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,130 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,130 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Together in Service
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Together in Service: 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 Together in Service?
- Together in Service (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $159,389 to it, the largest being PROTEUS FUND INC ($78,750). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Together in Service have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $159,389 in grants to Together in Service, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Together in Service?
- PROTEUS FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $78,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Together in Service 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 FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 4 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