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Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by WORKERS LAB.

Totals

Total revenue
$3,773,592
Total expenses
$3,254,693
Contributions and grants received
$3,594,450
Grants paid
$134,750
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$179,142
Total assets, end of year
$929,657
Total liabilities, end of year
$311,148
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$618,509
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$2,021,588
Management and general expenses
$888,973
Fundraising expenses
$344,132
Program service expenses (Part III)
$2,021,588

Program services were 62.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $3,594,450

  • 11a · Other revenue: Write-off from the previous year

    total $179,142 · related or exempt $179,142

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $179,142

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $134,750 · program services $134,750

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $0

  • 3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

    total $0

  • 4 · Benefits paid to or for members

    total $0

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $340,275 · program services $122,152 · management and general $126,695 · fundraising $91,428

  • 6 · Compensation of disqualified persons

    total $0

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $691,274 · program services $368,281 · management and general $160,554 · fundraising $162,439

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $0

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $52,550 · program services $27,306 · management and general $17,552 · fundraising $7,692

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $81,082 · program services $38,203 · management and general $23,280 · fundraising $19,599

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $99,060 · management and general $99,060

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $117,601 · program services $32,152 · management and general $85,449

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $101,328 · management and general $101,328

  • 11d · Fees: lobbying

    total $0

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $0

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $957,790 · program services $950,290 · management and general $7,500

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $245,767 · program services $220,599 · management and general $15,342 · fundraising $9,826

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $15,913 · program services $5,889 · management and general $5,672 · fundraising $4,352

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $53,990 · program services $32,379 · management and general $13,428 · fundraising $8,183

  • 15 · Royalties

    total $0

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $12,547 · program services $1,100 · management and general $10,934 · fundraising $513

  • 17 · Travel

    total $73,933 · program services $49,864 · management and general $4,486 · fundraising $19,583

  • 18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials

    total $0

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $18,818 · program services $10,214 · management and general $4,732 · fundraising $3,872

  • 20 · Interest

    total $73,438 · management and general $73,438

  • 21 · Payments to affiliates

    total $0

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $0

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $18,121 · program services $5,956 · management and general $9,386 · fundraising $2,779

  • 24a · Other expenses: Events

    total $787 · program services $787

  • 24b · Other expenses: Staff Development

    total $16,719 · program services $9,675 · management and general $4,559 · fundraising $2,485

  • 24c · Other expenses: Dues Memberships

    total $9,116 · program services $2,344 · management and general $5,469 · fundraising $1,303

  • 24d · Other expenses: In-kind Services and Rent

    total $39,834 · program services $9,647 · management and general $20,109 · fundraising $10,078

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $100,000 · management and general $100,000

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $953,204 · end of year $681,865

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $190,000 · end of year $187,500

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $29,696 · end of year $50,623

  • 7 · Other notes and loans receivable

    beginning of year $100,000

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $9,763 · end of year $9,669

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $282,887 · end of year $233,051

  • 18 · Grants payable

    beginning of year $540,000 · end of year $45,000

  • 22 · Loans and payables to officers and key people

    end of year $33,097

  • 24 · Unsecured notes and loans payable

    beginning of year $400,000

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year -$626,136 · end of year $367,796

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $685,912 · end of year $250,713

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

The Workers Labs purpose is to give new ideas about increasing worker power a genuine changce to succeed and flourish. We envison a society where workers are powerful drivers of economic, social, and political transformation. To bring about that vision, we invest flexible dollars in a national network of leaders accross sectors to test new ideas.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The Workers Lab is a nonprofit investor that gives new ideas for and with workers a chance to succeed

  • Design Sprint - In 2022 and 2023, The Workers Lab is running 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 aim to invest over 1 million to demonstrate how to make this possible.

    Expenses $1,119,732 · Grants $1,000

  • Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

    Expenses $516,109 · Grants $132,750

  • Learning Hub Our Learning Hub is a tool that helps make sense of everything were learning from our investments. It is meant to inform future investments and to engage anyone and everyone interested in what it means to give new ideas that increase power for workers a chance to succeed and flourish. The Learning Hub will curate and house our learning, offer resources and mentorship, and showcase innovators that are giving life to the most promising ideas aimed at increasing power for workers.

    Expenses $230,767 · Grants $1,000

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

Listed in Part VII

  • Adrian Haro

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $203,174
    From this org
    $197,069
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,105
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $197,069
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    $6,105
    Filer's total
    $203,174

  • Eduardo Morales

    VP of Strategy

    Total calculated
    $160,563
    From this org
    $154,458
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,105
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $154,458
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    $6,105
    Filer's total
    $160,563

  • Jeshua John

    Director of Programs

    Total calculated
    $147,378
    From this org
    $141,273
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,105
    Hours/week
    40

  • Antonella Vassallo

    Chief of Staff

    Total calculated
    $140,498
    From this org
    $134,393
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,105
    Hours/week
    40

  • Thomas Lawler

    Director of Development

    Total calculated
    $138,086
    From this org
    $133,512
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,574
    Hours/week
    40

  • Joseph Allan Baclig

    Director of Finance Operations

    Total calculated
    $137,100
    From this org
    $130,995
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,105
    Hours/week
    40

  • Sean Daniel Murphy

    Former Board Member

    Total calculated
    $80,000
    From this org
    $80,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    not reported
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    $80,000
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $80,000

  • Luz Vega-Marquis

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • Erica Smiley

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.01

  • Margot Brandenburg

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.09

  • Keesha Gaskins-Nathan

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.13

  • Ian Fuller

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.17

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

  • 3 · Compensation survey or study
  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

  • Starlight Ventures Corporation

    $20,000

    Innovation Fund Award

  • MT Labs LLC

    $20,000

    Innovation Fund Award

  • Repose Birth Services LLC

    $20,000

    Innovation Fund Award

  • Nurse on Demand LLC

    $20,000

    Innovation Fund Award

  • Trunk of My Car Cooperative

    $20,000

    Innovation Fund Award

  • Mission Launch Inc

    $20,000

    Innovation Fund Award

  • Pronto

    $5,000

    Innovation Fund Award

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
8 November 2024
IRS schema version
2023v5.1
Source object
202403139349300305

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