New York · Nonprofit
WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC
WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC (New York) receives grants from 133 organizations whose IRS filings report $197,395,854 to it, the largest being Tides Foundation ($69,300,685). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 152 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 152 civil rights nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Grove Action Fundshared funders
- Voter Registration Projectshared funders
- General Service Foundationshared funders
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.
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.
94% of WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 51 funders, grant income rose $325k → $31M.
8 of 133 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 133 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.
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.
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
61% of WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $71M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 133 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Grove Action Fundshared fundersCA · backs 47 organizations that share your funders
- Voter Registration Projectshared fundersDC · backs 42 organizations that share your funders
- General Service Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 34 organizations that share your funders
- Women Donors Networkshared fundersCA · backs 47 organizations that share your funders
- Solidago Foundationshared fundersMA · backs 59 organizations that share your funders
- Mertz Gilmore Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 57 organizations that share your funders
- American Federation of State County and Municipal Employeesshared fundersDC · backs 57 organizations that share your funders
- Energy Action Fundshared fundersCA · backs 46 organizations that share your funders
- Hill-Snowdon Foundationshared fundersDC · backs 47 organizations that share your funders
- The David Rockefeller Fund Incshared fundersNY · backs 40 organizations that share your funders
- Solidaire Network Incshared fundersCA · backs 45 organizations that share your funders
- Groundswell Fundshared fundersCA · backs 57 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 29 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Community Labor Administrative Services Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION 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 WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC?
- WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC (New York) receives grants from 133 organizations whose IRS filings report $197,395,854 to it, the largest being Tides Foundation ($69,300,685). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 133 organizations giving $197,395,854 in grants to WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC, 46 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 133funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing