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International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union No 134

Labor union

$794k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
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.

Public Benefit$1.9MEducation$401kCivil Rights$274kEmployment$168kArts & Culture$102kRecreation & Sports$20k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $143,200, the rows itemized in this filing. The $794,156 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $650,956 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 $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $27k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$26,900
Median grant
3
States reached
$85M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IBEW UNITY FUND$100,000
LOCAL 134 CFL DELEGATE SCHOLARSHIP FUND$26,900
Individual grant recipient$8,800
BMA MEDIA GROUP$7,500
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 (FY21–21, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LOCAL 134 HELPING HANDS FUND: $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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 5 repeat orgs$567k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
11

Total granted

$2.3M
$550k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+21%

Still filing today

60%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
Arts & CultureEducationCivil RightsEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • L1
    LOCAL 134 CFL DELEGATE SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $206k · revenue +48% · 38% of their budget
  • IB
    INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS
    3× · 2017–2025 · $160k · revenue +25%
  • US
    UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE
    2× · 2021–2022 · $11k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • VY
    VOTE YES FOR WORKERS RIGHTS
    one grant, 2022 · $237k
  • IP
    IBEW PAC EDUCATION FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $195k
  • EW
    ELECTRICAL WORKERS HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -56%
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
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers 194 Local

Labor union - electrical workers

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2
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 342

Labor union representing the electrical worker force

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3
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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4
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union No 110

Labor union

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5
International Brotherhood of Electrical Worker Local No 354

Labor organization

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6
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers 0681 Local

Local Labor Union Representing Members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.

Employment
7
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union 72

Local Labor Union Representing Members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers

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8
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers 1186

Provide improved wages, fringes benefits and working conditions for members through organizing and collective bargaining

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9
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union No 153

Labor union

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10
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union 640

Labor Organizing

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11
International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 957

Labor union

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12
Intl Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Afl-Cio Local 1340

To provide the members of the local electrical union with services and benefits.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations; the most unlike its peers is Ibew Local 134 Helping Hand Charitable Trust. 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

9 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. 9 of the 18 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IBEW ILLINOIS PAC: $1,947,116 · OtherIBEW ILLINOIS PACVOTE YES FOR WORKERS RIGHTS: $236,620 · OtherVOTE YES FOR WORKERS RIGHTSIBEW PAC EDUCATION FUND: $195,136 · OtherIBEW PAC EDUCATION FUNDINTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS: $160,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS+8 more: $77,800 · OtherLOCAL 134 CFL DELEGATE SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $205,800 · EducationELECTRICAL WORKERS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $50,000 · Arts & CultureA PHILIP RANDOLPH PULLMAN PORTER MUSEUM: $6,000 · Arts & CultureIllinois Legislative Black Caucus Foundation: $11,200 · Civil RightsUNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE: $11,000 · EnvironmentIBEW Local 134 Helping Hand Charitable Trust: $10,000 · Human Services
Other$2,616,672Education$205,800Arts & Culture$56,000Civil Rights$11,200Environment$11,000Human Services$10,000

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 budgetLOCAL 134 CFL DELEGATE SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $205,800 over 9y, 38% of budgetINTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS: $160,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetELECTRICAL WORKERS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $50,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetIllinois Legislative Black Caucus Foundation: $11,200 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetUNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL UNION COUNCIL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIBEW Local 134 Helping Hand Charitable Trust: $10,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetA PHILIP RANDOLPH PULLMAN PORTER MUSEUM: $6,000 over 1y, 5.0% 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.

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.

American Federation o…International Brother…Local Union No 9 - In…Local Union No 126 In…International Brother…International Brother…Laborers' Int'L Union…Great Lakes Region Or…International Brother…International Brother…
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial OrganizationsDC15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations · International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union No 196 · Local Union No 9 - International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers · Local Union No 126 Int'L Brotherhood of Electrical Workers · International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 702 · International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 252 · Laborers' Int'L Union of North America District Council of Chicago · Great Lakes Region Organizing Committee · International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union No 5 · International Brotherhood of Electrical 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 Local Union No 134 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union No 134. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report 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 18 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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