Skip to content
Plinth
Foundation DossiersMostly funded, not a grantmaker — see who funds it →
Plinth

· Public charity

Chicago Federation of Labor and Industrial Union Council

Labor council

$93k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL UNION COUNCIL’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 3 grants below total $27,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $92,560 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $65,060 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DEVELOPMENT NOW FOR CHICAGO$10,000
ILLINOIS PRODUCTION ALLIANCE NFP$10,000
ST PATRICKS DAY COMMITTEE OF CHICAGO$7,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 94% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC: $20k → 16%CHICAGO FOR THE PEOPLE: $50k → 14%UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE: $7k → 10%FARM LABOR ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: $10k → 18%ILLINOIS AFL-CIO: $6k → 11%SPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS: $15k → 11%THE IRISH FELLOWSHIP CLUB OF CHICAGO: $6k → 14%CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 16%WORKING AMERICA: $50k → 14%UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE: $6k → 10%SPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS: $10k → 11%ILLINOIS LABOR HISTORY SOCIETY: $6k → 14%LABOR COUNCIL LATIN AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT: $20k → 14%JB INAUGURATION COMMITTEE 2023: $25k → 14%CIVIC CONSULTING ALLIANCE: $10k → 14%METROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL: $10k → 14%CHICAGO DEFENDER CHARITIES INC: $7k → 14%CIVIC CONSULTING ALLIANCE: $10k → 14%WOMEN'S MARCH CHICAGO: $8k → 14%THE ANTI-HARASSMENT EQUALITY AND ACCESS PANEL: $20k → 14%THE ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $40k → 14%THE ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $20k → 14%THE ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $20k → 14%THE KENNEDY FORUM ILLINOIS: $10k → 14%THE ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $20k → 14%NAVY PIER INC: $12k → 14%NAVY PIER INC: $10k → 14%ILLINOIS ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE: $15k → 14%SWEENEY CLASSIC: $10k → 14%SWEENEY CLASSIC: $10k → 14%JAMES M SWEENEY GOLF CLASSIC: $8k → 14%ILLINOIS ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE: $8k → 14%ILLINOIS ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE: $6k → 14%CHICAGO JOBS WITH JUSTICE: $12k → 14%DEVELOPMENT NOW FOR CHICAGO: $10k → 14%ILLINOIS PRODUCTION ALLIANCE NFP: $10k → 14%MERCY HOMES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS: $10k → 14%ST PATRICKS DAY COMMITTEE OF CHICAGO: $8k → 14%CHICAGO ST PATRICKS DAY PARADE COMMITTEE: $7k → 14%PATHWAY TO ADVENTURE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $7k → 14%EVEREST ACADAMY: $6k → 14%UNITED WAY OF METRO CHICAGO: $15k → 14%UNITED WAY OF METRO CHICAGO: $14k → 14%THE IRISH FELLOWSHIP CLUB OF CHICAGO: $7k → 14%VOTE YES FOR WORKERS RIGHTS: $100k → 14%VOTE YES FOR WORKERS RIGHTS: $46k → 14%FRIENDS OF LABOR: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$468k · 12 repeat orgs$290k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
18

Total granted

$468k
$270k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
0%

Still filing today

92%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementPhilanthropyEducationArts & CultureHealthCivil RightsOther

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

  • II
    Illinois Institute of Technology
    4× · 2017–2022 · $100k · revenue +27%
  • CL
    CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $30k · revenue +147%
  • IE
    ILLINOIS ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE
    3× · 2019–2022 · $29k · revenue +79%

Funded once

  • WA
    WORKING AMERICAgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +364%
  • CF
    CHICAGO FOR THE PEOPLE
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • JI
    JB Inauguration Committee 2023
    one grant, 2023 · $25k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Chicago Federation of Labor and Industrial Union Council

Labor council

—
2
Illinois Coalition for Jobs Growth and Prosperity

To promote job growth and communicate important issues to the public through information campaigns.

Community Improvement
3
Latino Union of Chicago

Latino Union works to defend the rights and dignity of contingent workers, including the right to immigrate, work, live free of oppression and violence, and provide for oneself and one's family.

Human Services
4
Illinois Business Alliance

The illinois business alliance is a nonprofit, member-driven business league that exists to improve illinois' business climate and promote the common economic interests of its members.

—
5
True Chicago
Arts & Culture
6
Illinois Fiscal Policy Council
Public Benefit
7
Laborers' Int'l Union of North America District Council of Chicago

To promote unity of action in dealing with employers and to coordinate and consolidate the activities of its various affiliated local unions so they can work in a harmonious and united way.

—
8
United Way of Illinois

Strengthen United Way movement in Illinois

Philanthropy
9
League of Women Voters of Illinois

Promote political responsibilities through informed and active participation in government and to act on selected governmental issues. the league shall not support or oppose any political party or any candidate.

—
10
Iron Workers District Council of Chicago and Vicinity

Organize workers for advancement

—
11
Union League Club of Chicago

See schedule o.the union league club of chicago (the "club") provides a unique opportunity for its members to participate as a leader in promoting civic, philanthropic and cultural matters of common interest. our offerings focus on…

—
12
Illinois Coalition for Legal Reform

Advocate for tort reform in Illinois by communicating with public officials and staff to influence legislation and administrative action designed to create a more equitable and balanced judicial system in Illinois.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Equality Illinois Institute and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Labor. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 17 years old; the field is 18. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%16%<5yr14%8%5–10yr18%28%10–20yr17%8%20–35yr15%12%35–55yr16%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%7%<5yr14%4%5–10yr18%31%10–20yr17%8%20–35yr15%12%35–55yr16%39%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 16% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 9% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
9%
3/32
the rest of the field
15%
6,600/44,479

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 32 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/28
Grantees still filing
15/28
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VOTE YES FOR WORKERS RIGHTS — $146,000 · OtherVOTE YES FOR WORKERS RIGHTSWORKING AMERICA — $50,000 · OtherWORKING AMERICACHICAGO FOR THE PEOPLE — $50,000 · OtherCHICAGO FOR THE PEOPLESPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS — $25,000 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOISJB Inauguration Committee 2023 — $25,000 · OtherJB Inauguration Committee 2023ANTI-HARASSMENT EQUALITY & ACCESS PANEL — $20,000 · OtherST PATRICKS DAY PARADE COMM OF CHICAGO co James Coyne President — $14,500 · Other+9 more — $81,850 · Other+9 moreIllinois Institute of Technology — $100,000 · EducationIllinois Institut…CIVIC CONSULTING ALLIANCE — $20,000 · EducationCIVIC CONSULTING …ILLINOIS ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE — $28,500 · Community ImprovementILLINOIS …METROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL — $10,000 · Community ImprovementMETROPOLI…ILLINOIS PRODUCTION ALLIANCE NFP — $10,000 · Community ImprovementILLINOIS …DEVELOPMENT NOW FOR CHICAGO — $10,000 · Community ImprovementDEVELOPME…CHICAGO DEFENDER CHARITIES INC — $6,500 · Community ImprovementCHICAGO D…UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC — $28,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WA…SWEENEY CLASSIC — $27,700 · PhilanthropySWEENEY C…FRIENDS OF LABOR — $5,400 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS O…CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · HealthMENTAL HEALTH LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE INC — $10,000 · HealthLABOR COUNCIL FOR LATIN AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT — $20,000 · Civil RightsCHICAGO JOBS WITH JUSTICE — $12,000 · Civil RightsNAVY PIER INC — $22,000 · Arts & CultureILLINOIS LABOR HISTORY SOCIETY — $5,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$412,350Education$120,000Community Improvement$65,000Philanthropy$61,600Health$40,000Civil Rights$32,000Arts & Culture$27,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetIllinois Institute of Technology — $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORKING AMERICA — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC — $28,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetILLINOIS ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE — $28,500 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetSWEENEY CLASSIC — $27,700 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJB Inauguration Committee 2023 — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNAVY PIER INC — $22,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCIVIC CONSULTING ALLIANCE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLABOR COUNCIL FOR LATIN AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT — $20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetANTI-HARASSMENT EQUALITY & ACCESS PANEL — $20,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetST PATRICKS DAY PARADE COMM OF CHICAGO co James Coyne President — $14,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE — $13,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIRISH FELLOWSHIP CLUB OF CHICAGO — $12,750 over 2y, 13% of budgetCHICAGO JOBS WITH JUSTICE — $12,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMETROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetILLINOIS PRODUCTION ALLIANCE NFP — $10,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetEQUALITY ILLINOIS INSTITUTE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFARM LABOR ORGANIZING COMMITTEE — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetDEVELOPMENT NOW FOR CHICAGO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWe March On Chicago — $7,500 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetPATHWAY TO ADVENTURE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO DEFENDER CHARITIES INC — $6,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS — $5,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF LABOR — $5,400 over 1y, 7.4% of budget
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.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Service Employees Int…Int'L Brotherhood of …International Union o…Mid-America Carpenter…The Chicago Community…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Service Employees International Illinois CouncilIL17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Service Employees International Illinois Council · Int'L Brotherhood of Teamsters Local Union No 727 · International Union of Operating Engineers Local No 399 · Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council · The Chicago Community Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Chicago Federation of Labor and Industrial Union Council 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

    More from the funding graph

    The unnamed billions
    grants reported with no recipient in the public record
    The regranting layer
    51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
    The DAF merry-go-round
    $9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
    By state
    where grant money is based, and what stays home
    State money flows
    the interactive map of money crossing state lines