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Chicago Federation of Labor and Industrial Union Council

Labor council

$93k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
3
Itemized grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
75%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$28k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 9
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$8.5M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 75% of the organizations Chicago Federation of Labor and Industrial Union Council funded were first-time grantees, receiving 86% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Community ImprovementHealthCivil RightsArts & CultureEducationEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving3$28k67%
FY20234$110k75%
FY20229$143k22%
FY20214$135k50%
FY20206$70k67%
FY20197$66k86%
FY20188$134k75%
FY20177$73kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Civil Rights$216kScience & Tech$100kPublic Benefit$95kRecreation & Sports$72kEmployment$66kArts & Culture$52kHealth$40kPhilanthropy$34kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Vote Yes for Workers Rights$146,0002n/a
Illinois Institute of Technology$100,00040%
Working America$50,00010%
Chicago for the People$50,0001n/a
Concussion Legacy Foundation Inc$30,00021%
United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc$28,50020%
Illinois Economic Policy Institute$28,50032%
Sweeney Classic$27,70033%
Special Olympics Illinois$25,00020%
JB Inauguration Committee 2023$25,00010%
Show all 32 grantees
All grantees of Chicago Federation of Labor and Industrial Union Council by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Vote Yes for Workers Rights$146,0002n/a
Illinois Institute of Technology$100,00040%
Working America$50,00010%
Chicago for the People$50,0001n/a
Concussion Legacy Foundation Inc$30,00021%
United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc$28,50020%
Illinois Economic Policy Institute$28,50032%
Sweeney Classic$27,70033%
Special Olympics Illinois$25,00020%
JB Inauguration Committee 2023$25,00010%
Navy Pier Inc$22,00020%
Civic Consulting Alliance$20,00020%
Labor Council for Latin American Advancement$20,00012%
Anti-Harassment Equality & Access Panel$20,000129%
ST PATRICKS DAY PARADE COMM OF CHICAGO co James Coyne President$14,50021%
Union Sportsmen's Alliance$13,40020%
Irish Fellowship Club of Chicago$12,750213%
Chicago Jobs With Justice$12,00016%
Mental Health Leadership Initiative Inc$10,00012%
Metropolitan Planning Council$10,00010%
Illinois Production Alliance Nfp$10,00014%
Equality Illinois Institute$10,00011%
Mission of Our Lady of Mercy$10,0001n/a
Farm Labor Organizing Committee$10,00011%
Development Now for Chicago$10,00010%
We March On Chicago$7,50013%
Pathway to Adventure Council Inc Boy Scouts of America$6,50010%
Chicago Defender Charities Inc$6,50011%
Everest Academy of Lemont Inc$6,0001n/a
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations$5,70010%
Illinois Labor History Society$5,5001n/a
Friends of Labor$5,40017%

Where it is load-bearing

Chicago Federation of Labor and Industrial Union Council supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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 tightly interlocked group: 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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Chicago Federation of Labor and Industrial Union Council

How much does Chicago Federation of Labor and Industrial Union Council give?
Chicago Federation of Labor and Industrial Union Council reported 3 itemized grants totaling $27,500, out of $92,560 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Chicago Federation of Labor and Industrial Union Council fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (28%), Science & Tech (13%), Public Benefit (13%).
Who are Chicago Federation of Labor and Industrial Union Council's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Vote Yes for Workers Rights ($146k), Illinois Institute of Technology ($100k), Working America ($50k).
Does Chicago Federation of Labor and Industrial Union Council fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Chicago Federation of Labor and Industrial Union Council?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Service Employees International Illinois Council, Int'L Brotherhood of Teamsters Local Union No 727, International Union of Operating Engineers Local No 399.
Where is Chicago Federation of Labor and Industrial Union Council based?
Chicago Federation of Labor and Industrial Union Council is based in IL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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