· Public charity
Ibew Local 104 Union
To establish and maintain adequate wages for our labor; to require of our members skill, intelligence and character; to protect our employers from the unskilled and inexperienced worker; to advance the principles and practices of conciliation and arbitration in the settlement of any differences with our employers; to protect and aid our…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $78,300 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $164,212 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $85,912 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 $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $71k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MASSACHUSETTS AFL-CIO SCHOLARSHIP CORPORATION | $30,800 |
| TRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| RI FIRE CHIEFS HONOR FLIGHT HUB | $10,000 |
| IBEW LOCAL 104 CHARITY FUND INC | $10,000 |
| NSUJL | $10,000 |
| NEWELL BROTHERS OPEN | $7,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $87k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +25% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- MAMASSACHUSETTS AFL-CIO SCHOLARSHIP CORPORATION5× · 2019–2025 · $86k · revenue ×16 · 67% of their budget
- IBINTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS3× · 2017–2019 · $75k · revenue +25%
- ILIBEW LOCAL 104 CHARITY FUND INC2× · 2024–2025 · $18k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- RIRHODE ISLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFSone grant, 2020 · $20k
- MSMASSACHUSETTS STATE LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIOgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +31%
- IHINTERNATIONAL HYPERBARICS ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +419%
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.
The massachusetts fallen heroes memorial fund was founded in 2010 by decorated combat veterans, gold star families and boston firefighters with the goal of erecting a permanent memorial honoring the men and women of massacusetts who gave…
To honor fallen marines and other service members who have died since september 11, 2001.
To raise money through fundraising and donations to fund disabled veterans and police officers.
To disseminate information to the local fire fighters orgranizations within massachusetts.
Provide support for all generations of current, retired and former udt/seal teammates and their immediate dependents, including gold star families. to strengthen the bonds of the brotherhood and reduce financial burden, of members of the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ibew Local 104 Charity Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Massachusetts Afl-Cio Scholarship Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 29 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 MASSACHUSETTS AFL-CIO SCHOLARSHIP CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS ↗
- Who funds Rhode Island Fire Chiefs Honor Flight Hub ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SISTERHOOD UNITED FOR JOURNEYMEN LINEMEN ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS STATE LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIO ↗
- Who funds TRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL HYPERBARICS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds IBEW LOCAL 104 CHARITY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds DREAM DAY ON CAPE COD INC ↗
- Who funds KINGSTON FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Chelmsford Girls Softball Association League Inc ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OPS SURVIVORS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds TOYS FOR TOTS INC ↗
- Who funds MYSTIC RIVER RUGBY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MARINE LIFE CENTER INC ↗
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: Local Union No 126 Int'L Brotherhood of Electrical Workers · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · 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 Ibew Local 104 Union 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.
- National Marine Life Center Inc — 16% of income from government
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.