· Public charity
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union No 481
Labor union
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 77% of INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS LOCAL UNION NO 481’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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 15 grants below total $213,942 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $310,876 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $96,934 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 $10k3 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $190k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INDIANA SPORTS CORPORATION | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| INDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $25,000 |
| TOP NOTCH OF INDIANA | $20,000 |
| THE MRA FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| INDIANA STATE AFL-CIO | $15,000 |
| ELECTRICAL WORKERS BENEFIT TRUST FUND | $15,000 |
| LONG ELECTRIC CO INC | $10,442 |
| IBEW LOCAL 481 RETIREES FUND | $10,000 |
| HOOSIER WOMEN FORWARD | $10,000 |
| HUNGER INC | $10,000 |
| IBEW UNITY FUND | $10,000 |
| INDIANA CAREERS IN CONSTRUCTION | $8,500 |
| ELECTRICAL WORKERS INDIANAPOLIS | $7,500 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL INDIANA | $7,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those 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.
13 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 6 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k 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
- IBINTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS7× · 2017–2025 · $153k · revenue +25%
- ISINDIANA SPORTS CORPORATION5× · 2021–2025 · $120k · revenue +308%
- CICONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY PROGRESS COUNCIL OF INDIANA INC6× · 2018–2025 · $102k · revenue +218%
Funded once
- HSHamilton Southeastern School Corpone grant, 2018 · $15k
- PTPERRY TOWNSHIP SCHOOLSone grant, 2018 · $15k
- IPINDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +61%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
22 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. 22 of the 32 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.
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 INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS ↗
- Who funds INDIANA SPORTS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY PROGRESS COUNCIL OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ELECTRICAL WORKERS BENEFIT TRUST FUND ↗
- Who funds Hoosier Heartland Area Labor Federation AFL-CIO ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds IAC SPORTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA STATE AFL-CIO ↗
- Who funds Franklin Township Youth Football Club Inc ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE OF MIRACLES INC ↗
- Who funds HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA CAREERS IN CONSTRUCTION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOTR OF HAMILTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANAPOLIS SOAP BOX DERBY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Local Union No 481 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.