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WORKERS LAB

EIN 82-4788124 OAKLAND, CA

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Revenue 2024
$3,229,125
Expenses 2024
$3,064,919

Program services were 74.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
S05
Classification
2000
Street
1111 BROADWAY FLOOR 3

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

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

  • Technology - Joined in 2024, WorkIt Labs was born out of the vision of worker leaders who recognized the need for technology built for and with those on the frontlines of worker organizing. From these early conversations, our mission was born - to design, develop, and deliver technology that puts power in the hands of workers. Today, we reach over 500K workers worldwide through our 25 partnerships with unions and worker organizations.

    Expenses $859,829 · Revenue $880,986

  • 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.

    Expenses $682,783 · Grants $361,200

  • 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.

    Expenses $351,085

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Adrian Haro

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $245,466
    From this org
    $238,143
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,323
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $238,143
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    $7,323
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $245,466

  • Catherine Huang

    Chief Innovation Officer

    Total calculated
    $171,679
    From this org
    $171,291
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $388
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $171,291
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    $388
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $171,679

  • Jeshua John

    Director of Programs

    Total calculated
    $164,213
    From this org
    $156,890
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,323
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $156,890
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    $7,323
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $164,213

  • Antonella Vassallo

    Chief of Staff

    Total calculated
    $148,472
    From this org
    $141,149
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,323
    Hours/week
    40

  • Joseph Baclig

    Director of Finance Operations

    Total calculated
    $145,074
    From this org
    $137,751
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,323
    Hours/week
    40

  • Madeleine Case

    Managing Director Workit Labs

    Total calculated
    $121,682
    From this org
    $115,079
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,603
    Hours/week
    40

  • Luz Vega-Marquis

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.15

  • Erica Smiley

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.04

  • Margot Brandenburg

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.12

  • Keesha Gaskins-Nathan

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.45

  • Ian Fuller

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,229,125
    Expenses
    $3,064,919
    Contributions
    $2,338,582
    Grants paid
    $361,700
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,773,592
    Expenses
    $3,254,693
    Contributions
    $3,594,450
    Grants paid
    $134,750
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,488,027
    Expenses
    $3,228,020
    Contributions
    $3,403,921
    Grants paid
    $293,687

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,824,840
    Expenses
    $6,558,463
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,661,834

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,566,044
    Expenses
    $6,792,711
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,729,406

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

  • Starlight Ventures Corporation

    $100,000

    2024 Innovation Fund Award

  • MT Labs LLC

    $100,000

    2024 Innovation Fund Award

  • Mission Launch

    $100,000

    2024 Innovation Fund Award

  • Fellows of the RSA in the United States

    $75,000

    2022 New Jersey Future of Work Accelerator

  • PowerSwitch Action

    $30,000

    2022 Power Switch Action Gig Work Research Support

  • Repose Birth Services LLC

    $25,000

    2024 Innovation Fund Award

  • Nurse on Demand LLC

    $25,000

    2024 Innovation Fund Award

  • Starlight Ventures Corporation

    $20,000

    2023 Innovation Fund Award

  • MT Labs LLC

    $20,000

    2023 Innovation Fund Award

  • Repose Birth Services LLC

    $20,000

    2023 Innovation Fund Award

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.