Chicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative

To engage working men and women, and the community at large, in order to improve health, income, and education. The organization's services are substantially supported through funding from governmental units or direct contributions from the general public.

$2.1M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 30
Itemized grants FY2025: 24
Organizations funded FY2023: 54%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2025: $1.6M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $14,032
Largest grant, FY2025: $405,033
Organizations funded a year: 2 to 24; FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2025: 2
Total assets, FY2025: $1.3M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 54% of the organizations Chicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $488k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EmploymentCommunity ImprovementEducationPhilanthropyCivil RightsArts & CultureOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	30	$1.6M	60%
FY2023	24	$1.9M	54%
FY2022	22	$1.3M	95%
FY2021	4	$57k	100%
FY2020	2	$20k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Employment$3.9MHousing & Shelter$217kEnvironment$127kFood & Nutrition$100kRecreation & Sports$97kCommunity Improvement$96kScience & Tech$66kHealth$60kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Int'L Union of Operating Engineers Local 399 Educational Training Fund	$1,015,577	4	6%
Operating Engineers Local 150 Apprenticeship Fund	$762,176	3	1%
Northern Illinois Electrical Joint Apprenticeship and Training Trust	$607,600	3	16%
Local 9 Ibew & Middle States Apprentice and Journeyman Training Fund	$356,172	2	n/a
USIC Locating Services LLC	$217,321	1	n/a
The Apprentice Training Fund for Local 1 of the Iabsoiw	$143,738	2	7%
International Union of Operating Engineers Local 399 Health & Welfare Tru	$127,972	1	0%
Climate Pros	$108,939	3	n/a
Architectual Metal Trainee School for 63 and the Iron League of Chicago	$102,147	3	2%
Iya Foods	$100,084	1	n/a

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All grantees of Chicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Int'L Union of Operating Engineers Local 399 Educational Training Fund	$1,015,577	4	6%
Operating Engineers Local 150 Apprenticeship Fund	$762,176	3	1%
Northern Illinois Electrical Joint Apprenticeship and Training Trust	$607,600	3	16%
Local 9 Ibew & Middle States Apprentice and Journeyman Training Fund	$356,172	2	n/a
USIC Locating Services LLC	$217,321	1	n/a
The Apprentice Training Fund for Local 1 of the Iabsoiw	$143,738	2	7%
International Union of Operating Engineers Local 399 Health & Welfare Tru	$127,972	1	0%
Climate Pros	$108,939	3	n/a
Architectual Metal Trainee School for 63 and the Iron League of Chicago	$102,147	3	2%
Iya Foods	$100,084	1	n/a
Theatrical Stage Employees Union Local Two	$85,479	2	2%
Mechanics Local 701 Training Fund	$72,739	3	5%
Liuna Chicagoland Laborers' District Council Training and Apprentice Fund	$65,917	3	0%
Select Development	$49,043	1	n/a
Illinois Economic Policy Institute	$45,000	4	3%
Air & Wellness Safety Training Company	$43,274	1	n/a
Special Olympics Illinois	$41,500	4	0%
Chicago Jobs With Justice	$36,000	3	5%
Spider Company	$35,669	2	n/a
Reynolds Consumer Products	$33,917	1	n/a
Oberg Medical Products	$30,035	1	n/a
Jesse White Foundation Ltd	$30,000	3	7%
Sweeney Classic	$30,000	4	1%
Meade Electric Inc	$27,570	1	n/a
American Federation of Musicians of the US and Canada Local #10-208	$25,000	1	2%
Machinery Movers Riggers and Erectors Union Local #136 Training Trust	$23,067	2	3%
Hydac Technology Corp	$22,427	1	n/a
Local #444 Iron Workers Joint Apprenticeship & Training Trust Fund	$20,056	1	3%
Illinois Institute of Technology	$20,000	2	0%
Civic Consulting Alliance	$20,000	3	0%
Concussion Legacy Foundation Inc	$20,000	1	n/a
Juneteenth Illinois Inc Nfp	$20,000	3	35%
Equality Illinois	$17,500	3	5%
Seiu Local No 1 Training Fund	$17,379	1	2%
Fresenius Kabi USA LLC	$15,117	1	n/a
Sos Children's Villages-Usa Inc	$15,000	2	0%
AJR Industries	$14,032	1	n/a
Navy Pier Inc	$12,000	2	n/a
NTI Connex	$11,725	1	n/a
J6 Polymers	$10,408	1	n/a
Rocha Electric Co	$10,377	1	n/a
Aldridge Electric Inc	$10,178	1	n/a
St Mary of the Lake Seminary	$10,000	2	n/a
Laborers' District Council Charitable Foundation	$10,000	1	2%
Cook County Health Foundation	$10,000	2	n/a
New Covenant Community Development Corporation	$10,000	1	1%
Push for Excellence Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Bucher Hydraulics	$9,845	2	n/a
Budnick Converting Inc	$9,396	1	n/a
Hire360	$8,200	2	0%
MJ Electric	$7,883	2	n/a

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($329k), not named here.

Chicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative 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.

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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.

Indiana Illinois & Iowa Foundation for Fair ContractingIL15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Indiana Illinois & Iowa Foundation for Fair Contracting · Laborers' Int'L Union of North America District Council of Chicago · The Chicago Community Trust · 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 Workforce and Community Initiative

How much does Chicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative give?: Chicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative reported 30 itemized grants totaling $1,591,142, out of $2,101,967 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 24 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Chicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Employment (79%), Housing & Shelter (4%), Environment (3%).
Who are Chicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Int'L Union of Operating Engineers Local 399 Educational Training Fund ($1.0M), Operating Engineers Local 150 Apprenticeship Fund ($762k), Northern Illinois Electrical Joint Apprenticeship and Training Trust ($608k).
Does Chicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 54% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Chicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Indiana Illinois & Iowa Foundation for Fair Contracting, Laborers' Int'L Union of North America District Council of Chicago, The Chicago Community Trust.
Where is Chicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative based?: Chicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative is based in IL.