Illinois · Nonprofit
UNITED WORKING FAMILIES
UNITED WORKING FAMILIES (Illinois) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,016,445 to it, the largest being CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE ($500,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $739k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $531k
What United Working Families does
Mission
To advance the interests of the working class, middle class and poor americans, through legislative advocacy, public education, creative media and community organizing.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The organization entered into agreements with a number of trade unions, political action committees and 501(c)(4) organizations to provide canvass and canvass management services.
$118,809 spentof which $2,220 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $118,809.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $89k to $531k (+498%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $40k → $243k.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WORKING FAMILIES’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
UNITED WORKING FAMILIES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
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 UNITED WORKING FAMILIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 63% · 2020 67% · 2021 37% · 2022 61% · 2023 41% — 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
40% of UNITED WORKING FAMILIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 28% give in more than one year at all.
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 WORKING FAMILIES draws 73% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 6 states 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.
Organizations like UNITED WORKING FAMILIES
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
40% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- United Working Families PAC · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED WORKING FAMILIES: 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 WORKING FAMILIES?
- UNITED WORKING FAMILIES (Illinois) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,016,445 to it, the largest being CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE ($500,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED WORKING FAMILIES have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $2,016,445 in grants to UNITED WORKING FAMILIES, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WORKING FAMILIES?
- CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WORKING FAMILIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 18 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing