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United Workers Association Inc

United Workers Association Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,469,348 to it, the largest being PUBLIC WELFARE FOUNDATION INC ($1,000,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$499k
Funders on record
31
Grants received
$3.5M
Net assets
$781k
17/31 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What United Workers Association Inc does

Mission

Training low-wage workers on workers rights, labor law, human rights and workplace/community health and safety as well as providing education and leadership development and leadership and advocacy skills to benefit their work, communities, personal and public lives.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. A group in the Baltimore region that has been formed around base building work that members participate in as they progress within the organization.

    $66,223 spent
    20% of program spending

  2. Coordinator activities that include point of entry outreach and follow up home visits thereby helping to build out our statewide organization. This process helps us gain a better understanding of conditions in the state as we work towards strategizing our next campaign. This also includes facilitating meetings that help leaders learn and develop key organizing skills.

    $37,055 spent
    11% of program spending

  3. Activities associated with key events that focus on leadership and development of our members.

    $30,286 spent
    9% of program spending

  4. We are Housing Our Neighbors and we believe in a Baltimore where the basic human right to housing is a reality for everyone. We work to create a city without homelessness. We believe that all people in Baltimore should have access to a decent, affordable home, and be adequately and safely housed within an atmosphere of acceptance and human dignity.

    $29,743 spent
    9% of program spending

  5. A group that has been formed around media work that members participate in as they progress within the organization.

    $25,931 spent
    8% of program spending

  6. A group that has been formed around political education work that members participate in as they progress within the organization.

    $25,261 spent
    8% of program spending

  7. United Workers project of survival. A community garden located in West Baltimore that helps address the immediate need of access to healthy foods. It is also is a platform used for political education around the root causes of our issues and to begin introducing people to who United Workers is.

    $24,004 spent
    7% of program spending

  8. Other

    $23,967 spent
    7% of program spending

  9. A group in the western Maryland region that has been formed around base building work that members participate in as they progress within the organization.

    $17,872 spent
    6% of program spending

  10. A group in the central Maryland region that has been formed around base building work that members participate in as they progress within the organization.

    $17,001 spent
    5% of program spending

  11. Activities that support leadership council (board) governance and decision making.

    $13,649 spent
    4% of program spending

  12. A group that has been formed around event planning work that members participate in as they progress within the organization.

    $13,083 spent
    4% of program spending

The 12 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $324,075.

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 ($494k) Expenses 100 ($673k) Net assets 100 ($521k)2018 Revenue 206 ($1.0M) Expenses 103 ($691k) Net assets 163 ($847k)2019 Revenue 153 ($758k) Expenses 140 ($941k) Net assets 128 ($664k)2020 Revenue 343 ($1.7M) Expenses 132 ($890k) Net assets 282 ($1.5M)2021 Revenue 165 ($814k) Expenses 103 ($691k) Net assets 306 ($1.6M)2022 Revenue 40 ($198k) Expenses 147 ($991k) Net assets 154 ($802k)2023 Revenue 83 ($410k) Expenses 69 ($465k) Net assets 144 ($751k)2024 Revenue 101 ($499k) Expenses 70 ($469k) Net assets 150 ($781k)
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Revenue (101)Expenses (70)Net assets (150)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 2019 to 2020, from $711k to $1.6M (+131%).

$598k
$880k
$711k
$1.6M
$1.6M
$841k
$767k
$803k
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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 95% · 2024 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

95% of United Workers Association Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,561 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$179k
’17
$326k
’18
−$183k
’19
$805k
’20
$123k
’21
−$793k
’22
−$55k
’23
$30k
’24
20
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

Ashley Hufnagel

Executive Director

Board chair

Doreen Hicks

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1715121212121120
Joined·+0+0+0+3+0+1+13
No longer listed·2303024
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $130k → $248k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
The Fund for Change Incunclassified
$250k
Namati Incunclassified
$77k
Drink at the Well Incunclassified
$20k
funders
3
6
13
13
9
8
8
6
1

9 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 United Workers Association Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 funders by total. 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

United Workers Association Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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

64% 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 United Workers Association Inc.

29%
largest funder
54%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 75% · 2019 40% · 2020 55% · 2021 59% · 2022 24% · 2023 26% — 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

13% of United Workers Association Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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

United Workers Association Inc draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 9 states in all.

WI
NY
MA
CA
MD
DE
NC
DC
FL

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Maryland out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $478k 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

United Workers Association Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,130 public benefit nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · below the median
Months of reserve20.3mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)0% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,130 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like United Workers Association Inc

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 Maryland

United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 27 Afl-Cio76%Unite Here Local 776%Ibew Local Union No 2675%United Association of Journeymen & Apprentices of the Plumbing & Pipe74%A2la Workplace Training74%Steamfitters Local Union No 60274%Centro de Los Derechos del Migrante Inc74%International Union of Operating Engineers Local No 3774%

Nationally

United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 88079%United for Respect79%United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local No 7578%Workers United78%League of American Workers78%United States Federation for Worker Cooperation78%United Working Families78%Legal Aid at Work78%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

69% of spending goes to programs.

Program 69%Management 21%Fundraising 10%

Governance

20
board members
80%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

92%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MD

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for United Workers Association Inc: 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 United Workers Association Inc?
United Workers Association Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,469,348 to it, the largest being PUBLIC WELFARE FOUNDATION INC ($1,000,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does United Workers Association Inc have?
IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $3,469,348 in grants to United Workers Association Inc, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of United Workers Association Inc?
PUBLIC WELFARE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like United Workers Association Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 31 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