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International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

· 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 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.

Community Improvement$9.8MPublic Benefit$7.8MArts & Culture$5.1MCivil Rights$2.0MRecreation & Sports$1.6MEmployment$1.5MEducation$631kHuman Services$600kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 30 grants below total $4,454,446, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,854,807 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $400,361 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 $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
AFL-CIO SECRETARY-TREASURER$25,000
TVTLC-TVA LABOR MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE$25,000
ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE$25,000
UNION VETERANS COUNCIL AFL CIO$20,000
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:

Its 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 its 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
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

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

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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%
+4%

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
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
    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
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
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 - 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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4
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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5
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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6
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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7
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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8
Laborers International Union of State of Mi

Collective bargaining and representation

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9
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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10
Laborers Intl Union of North America Local 327 Local Union

Membership organization representing approximately 300 union members for the purpose of collective bargaining.

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11
Laborers' Int'l Union of North America District Council of Chicago

To promote unity of action in dealing with employers and to coordinate and consolidate the activities of its various affiliated local unions so they can work in a harmonious and united way.

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12
United Food and Commercial Workers International Union

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

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Leadership Conference On Civil and Human Rights Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

90 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. 90 of the 114 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
82/90
Grantees still filing
47/90
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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 budgetDRAKE UNIVERSITY: $400,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHIGH-ROAD CONSTRUCTION DEFENSE FUND: $400,000 over 2y, 17% 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 budgetA BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INC: $125,000 over 1y, 1.2% 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 budgetLaborLab: $50,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetCITIZENS TRADE CAMPAIGN: $50,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetPROGRESSIVE CAUCUS ACTION FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetJobs with Justice Education Fund: $46,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE TO SAVE ENERGY: $45,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWomen's Congressional Policy Institute: $45,000 over 5y, 1.3% 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 LABOR UNION WOMEN: $30,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetCOALITION OF BLACK TRADE UNIONISTS: $30,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC: $27,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNew Leaders Council: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMISSOURI JOBS WITH JUSTICE VOTER ACTION: $25,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetHEAD COUNT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetGOSNOLD INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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

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 International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
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 114 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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