Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
WORKING AMERICA
WORKING AMERICA (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,384,112 to it, the largest being EVIDENCE FOR IMPACT ($16,000,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $79M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $57M
- Net assets
- $28M
What Working America does
Mission
To be a national directly affiliated local union of the afl-cio that brings together and empowers workers and other individuals who do not have the benefit of union representation on the job through an union affiliated with the afl-cio.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Outreach, education, member recruitment and mobilization: through strength in numbers, provide a collective voice to approximately 5 million members and 40 million working people on economic issues and concerns; empower working families in their communities and in the nation through strength in numbers; promote the freedom to organize in the workplace and bargain collectively.
$74,877,059 spentof which $2,347,488 as grants94% of program spendingProgram infrastructure: including but is not limited to canvassing and communications platforms and tools
$3,336,679 spentof which $104,609 as grants4% of program spendingResearch and analysis: research aimed at understanding what are the priorites of working people in the united states and how to best advocate for them economically and analysis aimed at improving efficiency and effectiveness.
$1,527,935 spentof which $47,903 as grants2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $79,741,673.
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.
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 $16M to $36M (+133%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Matt Morrison
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 7 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $4.9M.
3 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $67M from 10 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations). These are real filings, and they are not money WORKING AMERICA raised.
From the IRS filings of WORKING AMERICA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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
WORKING AMERICA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
99% 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 WORKING AMERICA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 49% · 2019 51% · 2020 40% · 2021 51% · 2022 59% · 2023 46% — broadly stable.
“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
19% of WORKING AMERICA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
91% of WORKING AMERICA's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $675k 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.
Organizations like WORKING AMERICA
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 18 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Afl-Cio · exempt
- Working America Independent Expenditure PAC · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WORKING AMERICA: 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 WORKING AMERICA?
- WORKING AMERICA (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,384,112 to it, the largest being EVIDENCE FOR IMPACT ($16,000,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WORKING AMERICA have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $57,384,112 in grants to WORKING AMERICA, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WORKING AMERICA?
- EVIDENCE FOR IMPACT is the largest funder on record, with $16,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WORKING AMERICA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 38 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