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Electrical Workers Ibew Afl-Cio Local 42

Local 42 represents union members in negotiations of benefits and collective bargaining agreements, dispute settlements between employees and employers, obtaining employment, and other matters of concern to the local and its members.

$152k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$102kPublic Benefit$100kPhilanthropy$60kHealth$51kRecreation & Sports$41kEmployment$20kArts & Culture$17kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $101,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $152,082 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $51,082 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $51k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$34M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$50,000
IBEW 2ND DISTRICT$25,000
MAX CARES FOUNDATION$16,000
RI FIRE CHIEFS HONOR FIGHT CLUB$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NATIONAL SISTERHOOD UNITED FOR JOURNEYMEN LINEMEN: $50k → 15%RI FIRE CHIEFS HONOR FLIGHT HUB: $11k → 14%NATIONAL SISTERHOOD UNITED FOR JOURNEYMEN LINEMEN: $10k → 15%NATIONAL SISTERHOOD UNITED FOR JOURNEYMEN LINEMEN: $5k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$427k · 9 repeat orgs$127k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +120% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
10

Total granted

$427k
$117k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+120%
+23%

Still filing today

44%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
Human ServicesPhilanthropyHealthRecreation & SportsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    5× · 2020–2025 · $124k
  • I2
    IBEW 2ND DISTRICT
    4× · 2022–2025 · $75k
  • NS
    NATIONAL SISTERHOOD UNITED FOR JOURNEYMEN LINEMEN
    3× · 2018–2020 · $65k · revenue -94%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • IB
    INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS
    2× · 2019–2020 · $20k · revenue +23%
  • BS
    BAY STATE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2021 · $16k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Stamford Emergency Medical Services Inc

The basic beliefs and philosophies of the corporation are to provide the residents of the city of stamford with high quaility professional emergency medical services, including advanced life support services and to promote awareness of the…

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2
Madison Ambulance Association Inc Dba Madison Emergency Medical Services

To provide emergency ambulance service and related health care to the residents of Madison, CT

Health
3
Washington Ambulance Association Inc

To serve the town of washington, ct by providing professional and compassionate emergency medical services

Health
4
York Ambulance Association Inc

York Ambulance provides emergency and non-emergency medical transportation to residents, businesses, and visitors of York, ME, South Berwick, ME, and Rollinsford, NH.

Health
5
International Assoc of Firefighters Local 854

The organization was established to further the interests of its membership by seeking improved terms and conditions of employment, to render moral and material aid to members as needed, to provide representation and/or counsel in legal…

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6
Brighton Marine Inc

Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.

Health
7
Western Berks Ambulance Association

To provide skilled, professional ambulance service to those in need of basic and advanced life support, and related services, in the western berks county area.

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8
Southbridge Emergency Medical

Provide excellent state of the art emergency care while maintaining respect and compassion for patients and their families.

Health
9
Southwest Harbor-Tremont Nursing Se Inc

Emergency ambulance service

—
10
MaineGeneral Health

To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.

Health
11
New Jersey Superior Officers Law Enforcement Association

The mutual protection and benefit of all its members.

Philanthropy
12
Irondequoit Ambulance Inc

Provides 24-hour daily emergency services to the Town of Irondequoit. Also provides advanced life support to the Sea Breeze Fire District, as well as mutual aid service to areas surrounding Irondequoit in Monroe County.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hole in the Wall Gang Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rhode Island Fire Chiefs Honor Flight Hub. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 20 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $124,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIBEW 2ND DISTRICT: $75,000 · OtherIBEW 2ND DISTRICTSPECIAL OLYMPICS CONNECTICUT INC: $28,000 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS CONNECTICUT INCIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIBEW SECOND DISTRICT: $25,000 · OtherIBEW SECOND DISTRICTINTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS: $20,000 · OtherBAY STATE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $16,451 · OtherES VETERANS ASSOCIATION INC: $14,000 · Other+7 more: $59,090 · Other+7 moreNATIONAL SISTERHOOD UNITED FOR JOURNEYMEN LINEMEN: $65,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL SISTER…Rhode Island Fire Chiefs Honor Flight Hub: $11,000 · Human ServicesRhode Island Fi…MAX CARES FOUNDATION INC: $59,500 · PhilanthropyMAX CARES FO…BAYSTATE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $24,500 · HealthHOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC: $7,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$386,541Human Services$76,000Philanthropy$59,500Health$24,500Recreation & Sports$7,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL SISTERHOOD UNITED FOR JOURNEYMEN LINEMEN: $65,000 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetMAX CARES FOUNDATION INC: $59,500 over 6y, 5.4% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS CONNECTICUT INC: $28,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBAYSTATE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $24,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRhode Island Fire Chiefs Honor Flight Hub: $11,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetHOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds NATIONAL SISTERHOOD UNITED FOR JOURNEYMEN LINEMEN ↗
  • Who funds MAX CARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS CONNECTICUT INC ↗
  • Who funds BAYSTATE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS ↗
  • Who funds Rhode Island Fire Chiefs Honor Flight Hub ↗
  • Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Electrical Workers Ibew Afl-Cio Local 42 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Electrical Workers Ibew Afl-Cio Local 42. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 42%
  • Special Olympics Connecticut Inc: 42% of income from government
  • Baystate Health Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Electrical Workers Ibew Afl-Cio Local 42 through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 20 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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