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Ibew Local 104 Union at a glance

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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…

$164k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$31k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$200kHuman Services$127kArts & Culture$114kPublic Benefit$108kEmployment$95kHealth$46kRecreation & Sports$43kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $78,300, the rows itemized in this filing. The $164,212 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $85,912 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

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $71k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$52M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MASSACHUSETTS AFL-CIO SCHOLARSHIP CORPORATION$30,800
NSUJL$10,000
IBEW LOCAL 104 CHARITY FUND INC$10,000
TRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION$10,000
RI FIRE CHIEFS HONOR FLIGHT HUB$10,000
NEWELL BROTHERS OPEN$7,500
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NSUJL: $10k → 15%SPECIAL OPS SURVIVORS: $10k → 11%RI FIRE CHIEFS HONOR FLIGHT HUB: $10k → 14%NSUJL: $7k → 15%RI FIRE CHIEFS HONOR FLIGHT HUB: $10k → 14%IBEW LOCAL 104 CHARITY FUND INC: $10k → 9%NATIONAL SISTERHOOD UNITED FOR JOURNEYMEN LINEMEN: $8k → 15%RI FIRE CHIEFS HONOR FLIGHT HUB: $10k → 14%IBEW LOCAL 104 CHARITY FUND INC: $8k → 9%RHODE ISLAND FIRE CHIEFS FIGHT HUB: $5k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
WA
NY
MA
PA
CT
RI
CA
MD
DC
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$560k · 8 repeat orgs$218k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
20

Total granted

$560k
$211k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
0%

Still filing today

75%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationRecreation & SportsArts & CulturePublic BenefitOther
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

  • MA
    MASSACHUSETTS AFL-CIO SCHOLARSHIP CORPORATION
    5× · 2019–2025 · $86k · revenue ×16 · 67% of their budget
  • IB
    INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS
    3× · 2017–2019 · $75k · revenue +25%
  • IL
    IBEW LOCAL 104 CHARITY FUND INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $18k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • RI
    RHODE ISLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • MS
    MASSACHUSETTS STATE LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIOgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +31%
  • IH
    INTERNATIONAL HYPERBARICS ASSOCIATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +419%
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
Boston Firemen's Relief Fund
Public Safety & Disaster
2
Maine State Troopers Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Massachusetts Corps of Fire Chaplains
Public Safety & Disaster
4
Massachusetts Bankers Association Scholarship Foundation
Education
5
Shaw Fund for Mariners' Children
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6
Ocean State Cancer Crushers
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7
Massachusetts Fallen Heroes Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Usmc Old Breed Rugby Inc

To honor fallen marines and other service members who have died since september 11, 2001.

Public Benefit
9
Nam Knights of America Mc Boston Chapter

To raise money through fundraising and donations to fund disabled veterans and police officers.

Human Services
10
Professional Fire Fighters of Massachusetts

To disseminate information to the local fire fighters orgranizations within massachusetts.

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11
Bay State Savings Charitable Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
12
Navy Seals Fund

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…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ibew Local 104 Charity Fund Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 29 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
7/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IBEW PAC EDUCATION FUND: $208,000 · OtherIBEW PAC EDUCATION FUNDIBEW ILLINOIS PAC: $94,097 · OtherIBEW ILLINOIS PACINTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS: $75,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERSRHODE ISLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS: $20,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS STATE LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIO: $20,000 · Other+12 more: $108,603 · Other+12 moreMASSACHUSETTS AFL-CIO SCHOLARSHIP CORPORATION: $85,800 · EducationMASSACHUSETTS …KINGSTON FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION: $10,400 · EducationKINGSTON FOUND…Rhode Island Fire Chiefs Honor Flight Hub: $35,000 · Human ServicesRhode Island…NATIONAL SISTERHOOD UNITED FOR JOURNEYMEN LINEMEN: $24,660 · Human ServicesNATIONAL SIS…IBEW LOCAL 104 CHARITY FUND INC: $17,611 · Human ServicesIBEW LOCAL 1…SPECIAL OPS SURVIVORS: $10,000 · Human ServicesSPECIAL OPS …INTERNATIONAL HYPERBARICS ASSOCIATION INC: $19,710 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $9,275 · HealthTRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Public BenefitChelmsford Girls Softball Association League Inc: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsMYSTIC RIVER RUGBY FOUNDATION INC: $5,200 · Recreation & SportsNATIONAL MARINE LIFE CENTER INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$525,700Education$96,200Human Services$87,271Health$28,985Public Benefit$20,000Recreation & Sports$15,200Arts & Culture$5,000

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 budgetMASSACHUSETTS AFL-CIO SCHOLARSHIP CORPORATION: $85,800 over 5y, 67% of budgetINTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRhode Island Fire Chiefs Honor Flight Hub: $35,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetNATIONAL SISTERHOOD UNITED FOR JOURNEYMEN LINEMEN: $24,660 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS STATE LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIO: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL HYPERBARICS ASSOCIATION INC: $19,710 over 1y, 16% of budgetDREAM DAY ON CAPE COD INC: $16,900 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetKINGSTON FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION: $10,400 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetChelmsford Girls Softball Association League Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetSPECIAL OPS SURVIVORS: $10,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetTOYS FOR TOTS INC: $7,005 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetNATIONAL MARINE LIFE CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

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.

Local Union No 126 In…Paypal Charitable Giv…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Local Union No 126 Int'L Brotherhood of Electrical WorkersPA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Local Union No 126 Int'L Brotherhood of Electrical Workers · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ibew Local 104 Union funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ibew Local 104 Union. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • National Marine Life Center Inc: 16% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 29 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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