Grantmaking public charityEIN 824788124

The Workers Lab

Oakland, CA 94607

Total Assets

$1.2M

FY 2024

Annual Giving

$360K

FY 2024

Grants Made

6

FY 2024

Avg Grant

$60K

FY 2024

Grant Range

Typical

Deadlines

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Programs & Activities

Program 1

$683K

Innovation Fund - The Innovation Fund is our signature program and the primary way we source and fund experiments. It is a national prize competition that we host up to three times a year. We leverage a fellowship model where fellows include entrepreneurs, worker organizers, non-profit leaders, and/or public sector leaders who receive a monthly stipend and support resources. At the end of the fellowship, winners are selected for up to 200,000 in additional funding for their new ideas about work and workers.

Program 2

$351K

Design Sprint - In 2023, The Workers Lab ran a design sprint to explore how flexible work can be quality work. All work, whether it is standard employment or gig and contract work, should allow workers flexibility without sacrificing quality. We invested over 1 million to demonstrate how to make this possible. In 2024, this Design Sprint on Quality Flexible Work will begin to sunset as we ideate on both the possibility of scale long-term and a new design sprint.

Focus Areas

Community Improvement & Capacity Building

Financial Snapshot

2024 filing

Total Revenue

$3.2M

Total Expenses

$3.1M

Giving Over Time

4 years

Giving over time from 2020 to 2024. Peak $1.4M in 2020. Hover bars for details.

Total dollars recorded per filing year. Scale adjusts to the foundation's range.

Top Recipients

36 grants

$150K
1 grant
Henry Street Settlement
$150K
1 grant
MT Labs LLC
$120K
2 grants
Starlight Ventures Corporation
$120K
2 grants

Grant Size Distribution

36 grants

<$10K
3
grants
$10–50K
20
grants
$50–250K
13
grants
$250K–1M
$1–5M
$5M+

Geographic Focus

11 states

California
$870K
44% of total
New York
$390K
20% of total
Texas
$245K
12% of total
Maryland
$120K
6% of total
Massachusetts
$75K
4% of total
Mississippi
$75K
4% of total
Virginia
$75K
4% of total
New Jersey
$45K
2% of total
Oklahoma
$45K
2% of total
Hawaii
$30K
2% of total

+1 more states

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