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We Work for Health
Washington, DC · EIN 87-1154775. Reported 27 grants totalling $1,059,230 to 24 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, 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. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 24 distinct organizations, with 24% 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 much its list changes. 14% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $8,500 and $30,000; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $250,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biotechnology Innovation Organization | Washington, DC | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Rx Abuse Leadership Initiative | Washington, DC | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Pharmaceutical Industry Labor Management Association | Columbus, OH | $93,230 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Information Technology Andinnovation Foundation | Washington, DC | $90,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Meals on Wheels North Carolina | Clemmons, NC | $80,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Delaware Bioscience Association Inc | Wilmington, DE | $66,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network Inc | Washington, DC | $33,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Bay Area Bioscience Center | South San Francisco, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Childrens Services Foundation | Sacramento, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Center for Global Health Innovation Inc | Atlanta, GA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | Bethesda, MD | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Community Liver Alliance | Pittsburgh, PA | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Advocates for Responsible Care Inc | Atlanta, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Center for Healthcare Innovation | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hemophilia of North Carolina | Cary, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Nw Rare Disease Coalition | Seattle, WA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Opportunity Through Entrepreneurship Foundation | Phoenix, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rush to Live | Lombard, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Taste of the South Committee | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition | Wilmington, DE | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Indiana Chamber of Commerce Inc | Indianapolis, IN | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| North Carolina Bioscences Organization | Durham, NC | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Arthritis Foundation Inc | Atlanta, GA | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Life Sciences Pennsylvania | Kng of Prussa, PA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
2 of 24 (8%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Biotechnology Innovation Organization
STATE-LEVEL PARTNERSHIP FOR SUPPORT AND EXPANSION OF BIO AFFILIATES - Rx Abuse Leadership Initiative
CONTRIBUTION TO PROVIDE AID FOR THE OPIOD ADDICTION CRISIS. - Pharmaceutical Industry Labor-Management Association
PBM/SUPPLY CHAIN EDUCATION / REVISE AND UPDATE JOBS STUDY - Information Technology & Innovative Foundation
2023 SUPPORT OF ORGANIZATION - Meals on Wheels North Carolina
SUPPORT FOR SENIOR ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE AND SERVICES - Delaware Bioscience Association
EDUCATION/AWARENESS RAISING COMMUNICATIONS
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 17 of 24 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.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 4 | $83,500 | $12,500 |
| 2022 | 14 | $612,500 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 5 | $140,000 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 4 | $223,230 | $55,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
60% of its giving went to organizations in District of Columbia. 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 District of Columbia.
- 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.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from We Work for Health's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 670 Maine Ave Sw 1000, Washington, DC, 20024.
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