· Public charity
Chicago Journeymen Plumbers' Local Union 130 Ua
To operate a local labor union in the northeastern illinois area which represents membership in employment-related matters.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 96% of CHICAGO JOURNEYMEN PLUMBERS' LOCAL UNION 130 UA’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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 22 grants below total $1,774,792 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,022,008 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $247,216 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $200k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $580k
- $250k+3 grants · $937k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BESTLER CORP | $371,304 |
| ACTION PLUMBING CO INC | $287,613 |
| CORPORATE PLUMBING INC | $278,102 |
| JB PLUMBING LLC | $173,833 |
| HARTWIG PLBG & HTG INC | $130,796 |
| NORMAN MECHANICAL INC | $121,304 |
| O'CONNOR PLUMBING INC | $91,903 |
| M&C SERVICES INC | $62,218 |
| CR LEONARD | $45,376 |
| CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR | $45,250 |
| MAC PLUMBING & ASSOCIATES | $43,803 |
| LONE STAR PLUMBING CO | $27,696 |
| IRISH FELLOWSHIP EDUCATIONAL & CULTURAL FOUNDATION | $26,750 |
| PLOMO PLUMBERS CLUB | $11,250 |
| DEE PLUMBING & SEWER INC | $9,630 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 8% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +14% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CFCHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL UNION COUNCIL5× · 2017–2022 · $89k · revenue +6%
- CFChicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative2× · 2024–2025 · $64k · revenue +1%
- IFIRISH FELLOWSHIP EDUCATIONAL & CULTURAL FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $47k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- HCHorizon Construction Groupone grant, 2018 · $40k
- AHAmerican Heart Association Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $26k · revenue +26%
- UHUNION HISTORIESone grant, 2024 · $12k
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.
To promote, protect, and serve the member unions by establishing and maintaining minimum wage standards, protecting members from unjust competition, and overseeing labor agreements within the state of illinois.
To organize all workers for the econimic, moral and social advancement of their condition and status.
To provide support and allow for dissemination of legislative activities to the members who are construction employers in illinos.
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.
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…
A union painting, glazing, and drywall taping contractors association dedicated to improving the industry through negotiating and implementing a collective bargaining agreement, promoting safety, education, and training to its members,…
To serve and advance the underground industry and its members, who provide quality utility installation for the citizens of illinois, following the highest legal, moral and ethical standards.
To operate a local labor union in the northeastern illinois area which represents membership in employment-related matters.
Organize workers for advancement
The illinois section of the american water works association, inc. (isawwa) provides resources for the advocacy of safe and sustainable water through enriching membership, mentoring, and increasing public awareness.
Betterment of the wage earners working condition
To represent members of the international union of operating engineers in the central and west central illinois area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 46 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 CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL UNION COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds PLUMBERS LOCAL 130 UA RETIREES' CLUB ↗
- Who funds Chicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative ↗
- Who funds IRISH FELLOWSHIP EDUCATIONAL & CULTURAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IRISH FELLOWSHIP CLUB OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds PIGA OF CHICAGOLAND NFP co P McCARTHY ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL GENERAL FUND ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO ROOFERS AND WATERPROOFERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED ASSOCIATION SCHOLARSHIP TRUST ↗
- Who funds PATHWAY TO ADVENTURE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds SPRINKLER FITTERS AND APPRENTICES LOCAL UNION 281 UA ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO WOMEN IN TRADES ↗
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.
Open a dossier: International Union of Operating Engineers Local No 399 · International Union of Operating Engineers 150 · The Chicago Community Trust · 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 Journeymen Plumbers' Local Union 130 Ua 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.