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Illinois Pipe Trades Association at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· 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.

$98k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
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, FY2021 to 2025.

Employment$80kEnvironment$50kRecreation & Sports$30kPublic Benefit$30kEducation$18kSocial Science$18k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $88,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $97,655 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $9,655 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–50k3 grants · $80k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IL AFL-CIO REGISTRATION AND EDUCATION FUND$30,000
CLIMATE JOBS ILLINOIS EDUCATION FUND$25,000
CLEAN ENERGY CHOICE COALITION NFP$25,000
UA SCHOLARSHIP TRUST$8,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UA 597 CHARITY GOLF OUTING: $20k → 7%IL AFL-CIO REGISTRATION AND EDUCATION FUND: $50k → 11%ILLINOIS DELIVERS: $30k → 14%UA SCHOLARSHIP TRUST: $8k → 6%UA 597 CHARITY GOLF OUTING: $10k → 7%IL AFL-CIO REGISTRATION AND EDUCATION FUND: $30k → 11%CLEAN ENERGY CHOICE COALITION NFP: $25k → 14%CLIMATE JOBS ILLINOIS EDUCATION FUND: $25k → 11%ILLINOIS ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE: $10k → 14%ILLINOIS ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE: $8k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION: $10k → 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.
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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$128k · 3 repeat orgs$98k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
2

Total granted

$128k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-5%
+891%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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

  • AF
    AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS
    2× · 2024–2025 · $80k · revenue -5%
  • PF
    PIPE FITTERS ASSOCIATION LOCAL 597 CHARITIES INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $30k · revenue -10%
  • IE
    ILLINOIS ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE
    2× · 2021–2022 · $18k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • ID
    ILLINOIS DELIVERS
    one grant, 2024 · $30k · 80% of their budget
  • University of Illinois Foundation
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -8%
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
Climate Jobs Illinois Inc

To educate and advocate for a pro-climate agenda that prioritizes policies in support of current and future illinois workers.

Environment
2
International Union of Operating Engineers Local Union No 965

To represent members of the international union of operating engineers in the central and west central illinois area.

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3
Illinois Environmental Contractors Association

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

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4
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.

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5
Illinois Coalition for Jobs Growth and Prosperity

To promote job growth and communicate important issues to the public through information campaigns.

Community Improvement
6
Citizen Action Illinois Education Fund

Public education on current public policy issues

Public Benefit
7
Fca of Illinois

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,…

Community Improvement
8
Illinois Mechanical Specialty Contractors Association

To provide support and allow for dissemination of legislative activities to the members who are construction employers in illinos.

Community Improvement
9
Illinois Unidos

Champion equitable responses and recovery efforts for the Latinx community impacted by COVID-19

Community Improvement
10
Illinois Environmental Council Education

To educate the public about environmental issues.

Environment
11
Illinois Section of the American Water Works Association Inc

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.

Public Benefit
12
The Associated General Contractors Industry Advancement Fund

Primary purpose is the advancement of heavy highway industry in the state of illinois.

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Climate Jobs Illinois Education Fund; 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.
04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
3/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS: $80,000 · OtherAMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL…ILLINOIS DELIVERS: $30,000 · OtherILLINOIS DELIVERSCLEAN ENERGY CHOICE COALITION: $25,000 · Community ImprovementCLEAN ENERGY CHOICE C…ILLINOIS ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE: $17,500 · Community ImprovementILLINOIS ECONOMIC POL…PIPE FITTERS ASSOCIATION LOCAL 597 CHARITIES INC: $30,000 · PhilanthropyPIPE FITTERS AS…CLIMATE JOBS ILLINOIS EDUCATION FUND: $25,000 · EnvironmentCLIMATE JOBS…University of Illinois Foundation: $10,000 · EducationUniversit…UNITED ASSOCIATION SCHOLARSHIP TRUST: $8,000 · EducationUNITED AS…
Other$110,000Community Improvement$42,500Philanthropy$30,000Environment$25,000Education$18,000

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 budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS: $80,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetPIPE FITTERS ASSOCIATION LOCAL 597 CHARITIES INC: $30,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetILLINOIS DELIVERS: $30,000 over 1y, 80% of budgetILLINOIS ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE: $17,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Illinois Pipe Trades Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Illinois Pipe Trades Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 8 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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