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· Public charity

International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers

To organize all workers for the moral, economic and social advancement of their condition and status.

$4.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$3.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 30 grants below total $4,454,446 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,854,807 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $400,361 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 $10k4 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $323k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $849k
  • $250k+2 grants · $3.3M
$20,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$951M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IBEW PAC EDUCATION FUND$3,000,000
JOBS TO MOVE AMERICA CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION$255,000
NATIONAL CLEAN TRANSPORTATION & ADV MFG ETT$229,019
DEVELOPMENT NOW FOR CHICAGO$200,000
UNION SPORTSMENS ALLIANCE$185,000
A BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER$125,000
CHIPS COMMUNITIES UNITED (CCU)$60,000
ELECTRICAL WORKERS MINORITY CAUCUS (EWMC)$50,000
JOBS WITH JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND$40,000
NABTU CONFERENCE FUND$35,000
LABORLAB$25,000
ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE$25,000
AFL-CIO SECRETARY-TREASURER$25,000
TVTLC-TVA LABOR MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE$25,000
UNION VETERANS COUNCIL AFL CIO$20,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LABORLAB: $25k → 9%NSUJL: $50k → 15%LABORLAB: $25k → 9%NSUJL: $10k → 15%IAFF CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%SHE SHOULD RUN: $5k → 14%SHE SHOULD RUN: $5k → 14%INSTITUTE FOR ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LEADERS: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
MT
IL
WI
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
TN
DC
LA
GA
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$24M · 50 repeat orgs$6.4M to everyone else

50 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
52

Total granted

$24M
$5.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+8%

Still filing today

78%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $490k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EmploymentEducationCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsHuman ServicesPublic BenefitOther

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

  • AF
    AMERICANS FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH
    6× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +178% · 27% of their budget
  • US
    UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +6%
  • JT
    JOBS TO MOVE AMERICA
    6× · 2018–2025 · $480k · revenue +650%

Funded once

  • TG
    The Good Land Committee Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $2.0M
  • P2
    PIC 2021 INC
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue -100%
  • P2
    PHILADELPHIA 2016 HOST COMMITTEE
    one grant, 2017 · $575k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Laborers International Union of 341 Hcl

Union hall devoted to the betterment of members compensation and working conditions, to secure recognition of workers rights to engage in collective bargaining, and to promote the development and maintenance of on-the-job safety practices…

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2
International Union of Operating Engineers Local 825ABCDRRH

The work of the union, as the representative of its members, is to provide for the continuous employment of labor, to bring about stable conditions in the industry, and to establish necessary procedures for resolutions of disputes between…

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3
Laborers' International Union of North America

To improve working conditions and living standards of members through collective bargaining, education, training, and employee benefits.

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4
Laborers International Union of North America - Local 1076

The local is a nonprofit organization established to represent its members in wage and fringe benefits matters in the construction industry. the local's primary areas of jurisdiction are oakland and livingston counties.

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5
American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Orgs

To organize all workers for the economic, moral and social advancement of their condition and status.

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6
Laborer's International Union of North a

A fraternal labor organization whose purpose is to promote employment of members in a safe work environment and ensurefair labor practices.

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7
Afl-Cio Union Lawyers Alliance

Afl-cio union lawyers alliance was established to better the conditions of working men and women and their families by enhancing the quality of legal representation that is available to the afl-cio and the national and international unions…

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8
Laborers International Union of Na Sewer and Tunnel Miners Union Local 2

Secure fair compensation and working conditions for all members.

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9
Laborers International Union of State of Mi

Collective bargaining and representation

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10
The Laborers Northwest Regional Organizing Coalition

The northwest regional organizing coalition (nroc) is established and exists to increase union participation in the industries in which the laborers' international union of north america (liuna!) currently represents workers. it is nroc's…

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11
United Food and Commercial Workers International Union

To organize all workers for the economic, moral, and social advancement of their condition and status.

Employment
12
Washington State Labor Council Afl-Cio

To protect and strengthen the rights and conditions of working people and their families.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Leadership Conference On Civil and Human Rights Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gosnold Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPolicy Research and AdvocacyDomestic Violence ServicesMilitary Veterans SupportCancer Support ServicesAddiction Recovery ServicesJewish Community Organizati…Lgbtq+ Community SupportEnvironmental Conservation …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%8%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%36%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%43%10–20yr16%4%20–35yr13%5%35–55yr16%6%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 36% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%3/108
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,457

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

90 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. 90 of the 114 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
82/90
Grantees still filing
49/90
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

IBEW PAC EDUCATION FUND — $6,350,000 · OtherIBEW PAC EDUCATION FUNDThe Good Land Committee Inc — $2,000,000 · OtherThe Good Land Committee IncAMERICANS FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH — $1,690,014 · OtherAMERICANS FOR ECONOMIC GROWTHNATIONAL CHILD ID PROGRAM — $1,206,564 · OtherNATIONAL CHILD ID PROGRAMPIC 2021 INC — $1,000,000 · OtherPIC 2021 INCPHILADELPHIA 2016 HOST COMMITTEE — $575,000 · Other+74 more — $3,611,485 · Other+74 moreDEVELOPMENT NOW FOR CHICAGO — $5,200,000 · Community ImprovementDEVELOPMENT NOW FOR …+6 more — $250,000 · Community ImprovementELECTRICAL WORKERS HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $5,022,000 · Arts & CultureELECTRICAL WORKERS…+2 more — $20,000 · Arts & CultureUNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE — $1,588,000 · Environment+2 more — $55,000 · EnvironmentJOBS TO MOVE AMERICA — $480,000 · EmploymentHIGH-ROAD CONSTRUCTION DEFENSE FUND — $400,000 · EmploymentNATIONAL CLEAN TRANSPORTATION & ADVANCED MANUFACTURING ELECTRICAL TRAINING TRUST — $229,019 · EmploymentWORKING CALIFORNIANS — $110,000 · EmploymentCENTER FOR MILITARY RECRUITMENT ASSESSMENT AND VETERANS EMPLOYMENT — $66,500 · EmploymentJobs with Justice Education Fund — $46,000 · Employment+5 more — $41,000 · EmploymentDRAKE UNIVERSITY — $400,000 · EducationPEGGY BROWNING FUND — $65,000 · EducationTHE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE — $55,000 · EducationUniversity of Illinois Foundation — $40,000 · Education+4 more — $50,500 · EducationELECTRICAL WORKERS WITHOUT BORDERS NORTH AMERICA — $250,000 · International+1 more — $5,000 · International
Other$16,433,063Community Improvement$5,450,000Arts & Culture$5,042,000Environment$1,643,000Employment$1,372,519Education$610,500International$255,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDEVELOPMENT NOW FOR CHICAGO — $5,200,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetELECTRICAL WORKERS HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $5,022,000 over 2y, 95% of budgetThe Good Land Committee Inc — $2,000,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetAMERICANS FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH — $1,690,014 over 6y, 27% of budgetUNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE — $1,588,000 over 9y, 4.6% of budgetPIC 2021 INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetJOBS TO MOVE AMERICA — $480,000 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetHIGH-ROAD CONSTRUCTION DEFENSE FUND — $400,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetDRAKE UNIVERSITY — $400,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetELECTRICAL WORKERS WITHOUT BORDERS NORTH AMERICA — $250,000 over 1y, 75% of budgetNATIONAL CLEAN TRANSPORTATION & ADVANCED MANUFACTURING ELECTRICAL TRAINING TRUST — $229,019 over 1y, 61% of budgetBUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION TRADES DEPARTMENT AFL-CIO — $213,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetLOCAL UNION NO 3 OF THE INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS — $200,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE — $180,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCOUNCIL ON COMPETITIVENESS — $131,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $125,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWORKING CALIFORNIANS — $110,000 over 2y, 54% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA — $106,317 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGuideStar USA Inc — $100,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTVTLCTVA LABOR MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE — $90,250 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC — $78,233 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC — $75,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetCENTER FOR MILITARY RECRUITMENT ASSESSMENT AND VETERANS EMPLOYMENT — $66,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC — $65,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPEGGY BROWNING FUND — $65,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetLOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY — $60,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNATIONAL SISTERHOOD UNITED FOR JOURNEYMEN LINEMEN — $60,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetTHE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE — $55,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPROGRESSIVE CAUCUS ACTION FUND — $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetLaborLab — $50,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetCITIZENS TRADE CAMPAIGN — $50,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetJobs with Justice Education Fund — $46,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWomen's Congressional Policy Institute — $45,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetALLIANCE TO SAVE ENERGY — $45,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTEAM PENNSYLVANIA FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetUNION VETERANS COUNCIL — $40,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNUCLEAR ENERGY INSTITUTE INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS INSTITUTE INC — $31,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL WOMENS SOFTBALL GAME INC — $30,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetCOALITION OF BLACK TRADE UNIONISTS — $30,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCOALITION OF LABOR UNION WOMEN — $30,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC — $27,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGOSNOLD INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMISSOURI JOBS WITH JUSTICE VOTER ACTION — $25,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetHEAD COUNT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetNew Leaders Council — $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWOMENS ACTION FOR NEW DIRECTIONS EDU FUND INC — $21,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budget
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.

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.

Communications Worker…International Union o…United Food and Comme…International Union o…Int Union United Auto…American Federation o…United Steel Paper an…United Brotherhood of…International Brother…Unite HereAmerican Federation o…International Assn of…
Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio ClcDC51.9× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc · International Union of Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers · United Food and Commercial Workers International Union · International Union of Painters and Allied Trades · Int Union United Auto National Community Action Program · American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees · United Steel Paper and Forestry Rubber Manufacturing Energy Allied · United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America · International Brotherhood of Teamsters · Unite Here · American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations · International Assn of Bridge Structural Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers

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 International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Gosnold Inc — 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 114 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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