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WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC

WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC (New York) receives grants from 136 organizations whose IRS filings report $198,363,414 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($69,300,685). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$54M
Funders on record
136
Grants received
$198M
Net assets
$20M
48/136 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 89%
01What it does

What Working Families Organization Inc does

Mission

The working families organization is a non-profit advocacy organization that seeks to advance the interests of 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

  1. In 2024, the working families organization, inc.'s ("wfo") programmatic services included: 1. Governance & policy 2. Democracy 3. Working class leadership development & research 4. Movement infrastructure 5. Economic & racial justice 6. Climate justice there were five staff members on the cla payroll in 2023 who earned more than $100,000: 1. Director, ballot freedom project $184,810 2. Executive director $175,117 3. Chief development director gnd $173,007 4. National director gnd $172,000 5. Coo/cfo - gnd $152,352 the top three staff members spent the following % of their time working for wfo: 1. Director, ballot freedom project 100% 2. Chief development director gnd 100% 3. Coo/cfo - gnd 100% (their compensation for working families organization is not disclosed.)

    $52,708,496 spentof which $14,705,464 as grants$2,926,573 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $52,708,496.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($7.5M) Expenses 100 ($6.1M) Net assets 100 ($3.5M)2019 Revenue 141 ($11M) Expenses 144 ($8.8M) Net assets 153 ($5.4M)2020 Revenue 460 ($35M) Expenses 398 ($24M) Net assets 449 ($16M)2021 Revenue 508 ($38M) Expenses 639 ($39M) Net assets 430 ($15M)2022 Revenue 720 ($54M) Expenses 774 ($47M) Net assets 633 ($22M)2023 Revenue 649 ($49M) Expenses 785 ($48M) Net assets 662 ($23M)2024 Revenue 721 ($54M) Expenses 936 ($57M) Net assets 585 ($20M)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (721)Expenses (936)Net assets (585)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 $6.2M to $19M (+203%).

$4.5M
$6.2M
$19M
$17M
$24M
$29M
$22M
2018201920202021202220232024
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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

94% of WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 156 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.4M
’18
$1.9M
’19
$10M
’20
−$659k
’21
$7.1M
’22
$1.0M
’23
−$2.7M
’24
1.9
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.

Board chair

Dale Wiehoff

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2018201920202021202220232024
Listed6666665
Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·000001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 51 funders, grant income rose $325k → $31M.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
$48M
Tides Advocacyunclassified
$14M
America Votesunclassified
$3.7M
Inatai Foundationunclassified
$1.4M
$1.3M
$528k
Jobs with Justiceunclassified
$518k
Casa in Action Incunclassified
$500k
$500k
United for Respectunclassified
$420k
$375k
$335k
funders
5
9
9
30
39
42
51
57
18

8 of 136 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 136 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 FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 69%; 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 FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC.

35%
largest funder
69%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 90% · 2019 89% · 2020 39% · 2021 48% · 2022 66% · 2023 47% — growing more concentrated.

“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

43% of WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 35% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

60% of WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

NH
WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
MD
AZ
NM
NC
DC
GA
TX

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $71M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 152 civil rights nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−5% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)39% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 152 civil rights nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Organizations like WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION 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 New York

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 7%Fundraising 1%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 29 states

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
KY
MD
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
LA
GA
TX
FL

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Community Labor Administrative Services Inc · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC?
WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC (New York) receives grants from 136 organizations whose IRS filings report $198,363,414 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($69,300,685). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC have?
IRS filings report 136 organizations giving $198,363,414 in grants to WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC, 48 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC?
TIDES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $69,300,685 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 136 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