Illinois · Public charity
Chicago Area Laborers-Employers Cooperation and Education Trust
Labor management cooperative
- $324k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $92k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 5
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.3M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Chicago Area Laborers-Employers Cooperation and Education Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $92k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $79k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $56k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $56k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $125k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $25k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $60k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $60k | 33% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Three Rivers Construction Alliance | $360,000 | 8 | 22% |
| Laborers' District Council Charitable Foundation | $90,000 | 9 | 4% |
| Citizens to Protect Transportation Funding | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Climate Jobs Illinois Education Fund | $25,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Illinois Institute of Technology | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Illinois Foundation | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Revolution Workshop | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Chicagoland Construction Scholarship Foundation | $18,000 | 3 | 16% |
| Illinois Environmental Contractors Association | $15,000 | 1 | 14% |
| Illinois Legislative Black Caucus Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Three Rivers Construction Alliance | $360,000 | 8 | 22% |
| Laborers' District Council Charitable Foundation | $90,000 | 9 | 4% |
| Citizens to Protect Transportation Funding | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Climate Jobs Illinois Education Fund | $25,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Illinois Institute of Technology | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Illinois Foundation | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Revolution Workshop | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Chicagoland Construction Scholarship Foundation | $18,000 | 3 | 16% |
| Illinois Environmental Contractors Association | $15,000 | 1 | 14% |
| Illinois Legislative Black Caucus Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Economic Policy Institute | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Hire360 | $6,250 | 1 | 0% |
| Concrete Contractors Association Inc | $5,900 | 1 | 1% |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Chicago Area Laborers-Employers Cooperation and Education Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Laborers' Int'L Union of North America District Council of Chicago
How this is measured
Compare Chicago Area Laborers-Employers Cooperation and Education Trust with peer funders
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About Chicago Area Laborers-Employers Cooperation and Education Trust
- How much does Chicago Area Laborers-Employers Cooperation and Education Trust give?
- Chicago Area Laborers-Employers Cooperation and Education Trust reported 7 itemized grants totaling $91,900, out of $324,440 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 5 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Chicago Area Laborers-Employers Cooperation and Education Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Employment (59%), Philanthropy (14%), Public Benefit (8%).
- Who are Chicago Area Laborers-Employers Cooperation and Education Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Three Rivers Construction Alliance ($360k), Laborers' District Council Charitable Foundation ($90k), Citizens to Protect Transportation Funding ($50k).
- Does Chicago Area Laborers-Employers Cooperation and Education Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Chicago Area Laborers-Employers Cooperation and Education Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Laborers' Int'L Union of North America District Council of Chicago.
- Where is Chicago Area Laborers-Employers Cooperation and Education Trust based?
- Chicago Area Laborers-Employers Cooperation and Education Trust is based in IL.
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