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WORKING AMERICA ACTION

WORKING AMERICA ACTION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,799,306 to it, the largest being FOCUS FOR DEMOCRACY ACTION ($6,414,252). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$14M
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$14M
Net assets
$9.7M
2/7 repeat funders
01What it does

What Working America Action does

Mission

Working America Action is organized for the purposes of economic justice and democracy

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Working America Action is organized for the purposes of economic justice and democracy.

    $5,200,000 spentof which $5,200,000 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,200,000.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20242024 Revenue 100 ($1.0M) Expenses 100 ($5k) Net assets 100 ($1.0M)2025 Revenue 1338 ($14M) Expenses 108609 ($5.2M) Net assets 939 ($9.7M)
20242025
Revenue (1338)Expenses (108609)Net assets (939)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $1.0M to $9.8M (+838%).

$1.0M
$9.8M
20242025
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.

2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.0M
’24
$8.7M
’25
0.2
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.

20242025
Listed34
Joined·+2
No longer listed·1
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

From the IRS filings of WORKING AMERICA ACTION’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

WORKING AMERICA ACTION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 WORKING AMERICA ACTION.

46%
largest funder
91%
top three
~3
effective funders

“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

98% of WORKING AMERICA ACTION's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.

MA
DC

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like WORKING AMERICA ACTION

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WORKING AMERICA ACTION: 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 ACTION?
WORKING AMERICA ACTION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,799,306 to it, the largest being FOCUS FOR DEMOCRACY ACTION ($6,414,252). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WORKING AMERICA ACTION have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $13,799,306 in grants to WORKING AMERICA ACTION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WORKING AMERICA ACTION?
FOCUS FOR DEMOCRACY ACTION is the largest funder on record, with $6,414,252 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WORKING AMERICA ACTION 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 7 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