One Fair Wage Inc
Cambridge, MA · EIN 85-0692228. Reported 32 grants totalling $515,000 to 32 organizations across tax years 2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For One Fair Wage Inc, the IRS classifies it under civil rights rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE R20) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 32 distinct organizations, with 39% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $7,500 and the largest $200,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| One Fair Wage Plus Tips Ma | New York, NY | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Community First | Pasadena, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Indigenous Justice | Sacramento, CA | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Muslim Advisory Council | Nashville, TN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Arab American Association of Ny Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance Afl-Cio | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Beyond Impact | W Hollywood, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Building Opportunities for Self- Sufficiency | Berkeley, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Center for Social Good | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Colorado Peoples Alliance | Denver, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Detroit Revival Engaging American Muslims | Detroit, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Epidaurus | Tucson, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Faith for Black Lives | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Gathering for Justice Inc | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Gen-Z for Change Initiative | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hawaii Workers Center | Honolulu, HI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Iowa Citizen Action Network | North Liberty, IA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jews for Racial and Economic Justice | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Justice for Migrant Women | Fremont, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kadima | Seattle, WA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Light to Life LLC | Hyattsville, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Live Free Chicago | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Malikah Inc | Astoria, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Michigan Organizing Project | Oshtemo, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mississippi Coalition on Black Civic Participation | Jackson, MS | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| National Compadres Network Inc | San Jose, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| National Day Laborer Organizingnetwork | Pasadena, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pillars of the Community | San Diego, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Possibility Labs | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Translatin Coalition | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Voices of Community Activists & Leaders-Vocal-Ny-Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lulu's Gourmet | Laurel, MD | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 22 of 32 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Where its money goes
52% of its giving went to organizations in New York. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New York.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from One Fair Wage Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 25 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 7 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 45 Mt Auburn St, Cambridge, MA, 02138.
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