· Public charity
American Fed of Labor & Congress of Ind TX Gulf Coast Area Labor Feder
The organization's primary purpose is to promote and protect organized labor initiatives.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k4 grants · $618k
- $250k+7 grants · $2.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Houston Gulf Coast Bldg | $515,377 |
| Asbestos Workers Local 22 | $510,838 |
| Metropolitan Transit Auth | $407,180 |
| IUEC LOCAL 31 | $375,725 |
| Pipe fitters Local Union 2 | $326,247 |
| Houston Area Plumbing | $308,705 |
| Finishing Trades Institute | $300,713 |
| Houston Joint Apprentice | $217,166 |
| International Alliance | $163,984 |
| Intl Assoc of Bridges Str | $123,358 |
| Intnl Assoc of Sheet Metal | $113,988 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $708k went to new ones.
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- HGHOUSTON GULF COAST BUILDING CONSTRUCTION TRADES COUNCI2× · 2023–2024 · $683k · revenue +119% · 69% of their budget
- AWASBESTOS WORKERS LOCAL 22 APPR TRAINING2× · 2023–2024 · $661k · revenue +125% · 84% of their budget
- HAHOUSTON AREA PLUMBING JOINT APPRENTICESHIP COMMITTEE2× · 2023–2024 · $393k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- MTMetropolitan Transit Authone grant, 2024 · $407k
- FTFINISHING TRADES INSTITUTE OF DISTRICT COUNCIL 10one grant, 2024 · $301k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Apprentice and journeyman training in the plumbing and pipefitting trades.
The local union acts as the collective bargaining agent for its members
Training for apprenctices and journeymen employed in the plumbing and pipefitters industries
Provide training in the electrical industry for electrical apprentices and journeymen.
Training and education of electrical apprentices and journeymen.
Training and education of operating engineers.
Operation of steamfitters' local union for the benefit of its members
A union to organize employees, service and maintain wages, hours, working conditions and other economic advantages.
Training programs for the health and safty of the members of the international brotherhood of painters and allied trades
Provide qualified union employees with proper training.
The jac of western oklahoma sheet metal apprenticeship and training program is dedicated to excellence in vocational sheet metal training for the unionized sheet metal industry. in order to provide a qualified workforce for our contractors…
The Union and its employees work for the benefit of its membership including negotiations of wages, benefits and working conditions.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pipe Fitters Local Union 211 Jatc and the most unlike its peers is Houston Gulf Coast Building Construction Trades Counci. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 11 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds HOUSTON GULF COAST BUILDING CONSTRUCTION TRADES COUNCI ↗
- Who funds ASBESTOS WORKERS LOCAL 22 APPR TRAINING ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON AREA PLUMBING JOINT APPRENTICESHIP COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL UNION OF ELEVATOR CONSTRUCTORS LOCAL 31 ↗
- Who funds PIPE FITTERS LOCAL UNION 211 JATC ↗
- Who funds FINISHING TRADES INSTITUTE OF DISTRICT COUNCIL 10 ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON JOINT APPRENTICESHIP TRAINING ELECTRICAL TRAIN ↗
- Who funds INT'L ASSOC OF BRIDGE STRUC ORNAMENTAL & REINFORC IRON WORKERS #84 ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF THEATRICAL STAGE EMPLOYEES LOCAL 51 ↗
- Who funds INTN'L ASSOC OF SHEET METAL AIR RAIL & TRANSPORT WORKERS LOCAL 54 ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization American Fed of Labor & Congress of Ind TX Gulf Coast Area Labor Feder funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.