· Public charity
Illinois Pipe Trades Association
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $88,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $97,655 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $9,655 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–50k3 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IL AFL-CIO REGISTRATION AND EDUCATION FUND | $30,000 |
| CLEAN ENERGY CHOICE COALITION NFP | $25,000 |
| CLIMATE JOBS ILLINOIS EDUCATION FUND | $25,000 |
| UA SCHOLARSHIP TRUST | $8,000 |
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 (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of your 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.
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.
3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 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, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k 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
- AFAMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS2× · 2024–2025 · $80k · revenue -5%
- PFPIPE FITTERS ASSOCIATION LOCAL 597 CHARITIES INC2× · 2021–2023 · $30k · revenue -10%
- IEILLINOIS ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE2× · 2021–2022 · $18k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- IDILLINOIS DELIVERSone grant, 2024 · $30k · 80% of their budget
University of Illinois Foundationone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -8%
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 educate and advocate for a pro-climate agenda that prioritizes policies in support of current and future illinois workers.
To represent members of the international union of operating engineers in the central and west central illinois area.
To promote and protect the interests of the asbestos abatement industry, lead abatement and other environmental organizations through education and dissemination of critical industry developments through industry alerts
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 promote job growth and communicate important issues to the public through information campaigns.
Public education on current public policy issues
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 provide support and allow for dissemination of legislative activities to the members who are construction employers in illinos.
Champion equitable responses and recovery efforts for the Latinx community impacted by COVID-19
To educate the public about environmental issues.
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.
Primary purpose is the advancement of heavy highway industry in the state of illinois.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Climate Jobs Illinois Education Fund and the most unlike its peers is Clean Energy Choice Coalition. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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.
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 AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS ↗
- Who funds PIPE FITTERS ASSOCIATION LOCAL 597 CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS DELIVERS ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE JOBS ILLINOIS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds CLEAN ENERGY CHOICE COALITION ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNITED ASSOCIATION SCHOLARSHIP TRUST ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Illinois Pipe Trades Association 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.