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International Brotherhood of Teamsters

The objectives of this international union are to organize under one banner all workers engaged in industry; to educate them to cooperate in every movement which tends to benefit the organization; and to impress upon our membership, employers, and the public that it is to the advantage of all concerned that workers be organized.

$936k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$250k
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 2024.

Health$1.6MEducation$1.6MEmployment$1.2MPublic Safety & Disaster$886kCivil Rights$483kCommunity Improvement$382kSocial Science$328kPublic Benefit$311kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $234k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $161k
  • $250k+2 grants · $500k
$10,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$609M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WORKER SOLIDARITY & DEFENSE FOUNDATION$250,000
TEAMSTERS LOCAL UNION 509$250,000
MOTION PICTURE & TELEVISION FUND$110,826
TEAMSTERS LOCAL 61$50,000
JOBS WITH JUSTICE$33,000
GREG HILL FOUNDATION$25,000
THOMAS R O'DONNELL SCHOLARSHIP FUND$25,000
TEAMSTERS JOINT COUNCIL 42$20,000
GOOD JOBS FIRST$20,000
PEGGY BROWING FUND$11,000
PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY CRIME SOLVERS INC$10,000
BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON$10,000
TEAMSTERS NATIONAL BLACK CAUCUS$10,000
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC (FALMOUTH ROAD RACE INC)$10,000
MALDEN CATHOLIC$10,000
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 (FY17–24, $261k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% 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: $20k → 9%DAVIS STREET COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $5k → 10%THE LADIES OF PIPEFITTERS LOCAL UNION 798 MEMORIAL FUND: $5k → 15%YATOOMA'S FOUNDATION FOR THE KIDS: $5k → 8%ROUNDY'S OCONOMOWOC DIST CTR VICTIMS AND SURVIVORS FUND: $10k → 9%GREG HILL FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%THE LADIES OF PIPELINERS LOCAL UNION 798 MEMORIAL FUND: $5k → 15%YATOOMA'S FOUNDATION FOR THE KIDS: $5k → 8%THE LADIES OF PIPEFITTERS LOCAL UNION 798 MEMORIAL FUND: $5k → 15%THE LADIES OF PIPELINERS LOCAL UNION 798 MEMORIAL FUND: $5k → 15%MOTION PICTURE & TELEVISION FUND: $111k → 14%LABOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $15k → 14%LABOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 14%LABOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 14%IAFF FOUNDATION: $25k → 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

ME
WA
MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
NV
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
NE
WV
VA
MD
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.6M · 49 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

49 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
69

Total granted

$5.6M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+13%

Still filing today

96%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $799k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthEmploymentCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • LA
    LOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY
    6× · 2017–2022 · $1.4M · revenue +19%
  • TG
    The George Washington University
    2× · 2018–2020 · $1.1M · revenue +26%
  • EP
    ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE
    3× · 2020–2023 · $300k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • IB
    INT'L BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS LOCAL 991graduated
    one grant, 2018 · $125k · revenue +50%
  • TJ
    Teamsters Joint Council No75graduated
    one grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue +74%
  • CP
    COMMUNITY PARTNERSgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +216%
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.

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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
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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3
Washington State Labor Council Afl-Cio

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

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4
Laborers International Union of State of Mi

Collective bargaining and representation

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5
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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6
Laborers' International Union of North America Laborers' Local #43

Promote and protect the interests of the members of the local

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7
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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8
United Food and Commercial Workers International Union

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

Employment
9
Laborers International Union of North America

Representing members in matters of collective bargaining.

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10
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 342

Labor union representing the electrical worker force

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11
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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12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Teamsters All Charities Fund; the most unlike its peers is Thomas R O'donnell Scholarship Fund. 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

116 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. 116 of the 134 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
110/116
Grantees still filing
70/116
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEAMSTERS LOCAL UNION NO 509: $250,000 · OtherTEAMSTERS LOCAL UNION NO 509Teamsters All Charities Fund: $204,000 · OtherTeamsters All Charities FundINTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS JOINT COUNCIL NO 16: $200,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS J…Teamsters' Joint Council No 7: $160,000 · OtherTeamsters' Joint Council No 7INT'L BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS LOCAL 991: $125,000 · OtherTeamsters Joint Council No75: $125,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $100,000 · OtherCAPITAL & MAIN: $125,000 · Other+80 more: $1,460,248 · Other+80 moreThe George Washington University: $1,112,200 · EducationThe George Washington Un…GOOD JOBS FIRST: $160,000 · EducationGOOD JOBS FIRSTTHE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE: $137,500 · EducationTHE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTEJAMES R HOFFA MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $112,499 · EducationJAMES R HOFFA MEMORIAL S…PEGGY BROWNING FUND: $81,000 · Education+7 more: $93,000 · Education+7 moreLOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $1,401,753 · HealthLOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FO…+7 more: $201,000 · Health+7 moreALIGN THE ALLIANCE FOR A GREATER NEW YORK INC: $470,820 · EmploymentALIGN THE AL…WORKER SOLIDARITY AND DEFENSE FOUNDATION: $250,000 · EmploymentWORKER SOLID…MINNESOTA TEAMSTERS SERVICE BUREAU: $67,382 · EmploymentMINNESOTA TE…JEWISH LABOR COMMITTEE: $35,400 · Employment+3 more: $30,000 · EmploymentECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE: $300,000 · Social ScienceTHE AMERICAN ANTITRUST INSTITUTE INC: $27,500 · Social ScienceMOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND: $110,826 · Human ServicesLABOR COMMUNITY SERVICES PROGRAM OF LOS ANGELES: $35,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesGREG HILL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Human ServicesLADIES OF 798 INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesLaborLab: $20,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF CRIME INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesYATOOMA'S FOUNDATION FOR THE KIDS INC: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesJobs with Justice: $158,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $25,000 · Civil RightsPension Rights Center: $17,500 · Civil RightsWOMENS ACTION FOR NEW DIRECTIONS EDU FUND INC: $15,000 · Civil RightsLABOR COUNCIL FOR LATIN AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT: $10,000 · Civil RightsCATHOLIC LEGAL IMMIGRATION NETWORK INC: $10,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $5,000 · Civil Rights
Other$2,749,248Education$1,696,199Health$1,602,753Employment$853,602Social Science$327,500Human Services$295,826Civil Rights$240,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $1,401,753 over 6y, 13% of budgetThe George Washington University: $1,112,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALIGN THE ALLIANCE FOR A GREATER NEW YORK INC: $470,820 over 4y, 13% of budgetECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE: $300,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetWORKER SOLIDARITY AND DEFENSE FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetTEAMSTERS LOCAL UNION NO 509: $250,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetTeamsters All Charities Fund: $204,000 over 2y, 33% of budgetINTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS JOINT COUNCIL NO 16: $200,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetGOOD JOBS FIRST: $160,000 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetTeamsters' Joint Council No 7: $160,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetJobs with Justice: $158,000 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetTHE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE: $137,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetINT'L BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS LOCAL 991: $125,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTeamsters Joint Council No75: $125,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetCAPITAL & MAIN: $125,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetJAMES R HOFFA MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $112,499 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetMOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND: $110,826 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTEAMSTERS NATIONAL BLACK CAUCUS: $90,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetPEGGY BROWNING FUND: $81,000 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetMINNESOTA TEAMSTERS SERVICE BUREAU: $67,382 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetAlliance for Global Justice Corp: $55,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS LOCAL UNION 61: $50,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetPOWERSWITCH ACTION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL ACTION NETWORK INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetInternational Brotherhood of 270 TCWH: $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetUNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWorking Partnerships USA: $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICA'S AGENDA HEALTHCARE EDUCATION FUND: $50,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetTEAMSTERS LOCAL 25 AUTISM FUND INC: $45,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetTeamsters Local 986 Charity Fund Inc: $42,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetJEWISH LABOR COMMITTEE: $35,400 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetINTERNATIONAL LABOR RIGHTS FORUM: $35,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetLABOR COMMUNITY SERVICES PROGRAM OF LOS ANGELES: $35,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC: $35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAEROSPACE MAINTENANCE COUNCIL INC: $34,000 over 5y, 7.3% of budgetNATIONAL MAINTENANCE AGREEMENT LABOR- MANAGEMENT POLICY COMMITTEE: $33,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetThe Southern California & Southern Nevada Teamsters JC 42 Charity Fund Inc: $32,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetTHE AMERICAN ANTITRUST INSTITUTE INC: $27,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED LABOR AGENCY OF NEVADA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGREG HILL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL EMPLOYMENT LAW PROJECT: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetINTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS LOCAL UNION NO 238: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHOMAS R O'DONNELL SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWheelchair Classics Charities Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetARISE CHICAGO: $20,000 over 3y, 0.5% 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.

Unite HereAmerican Federation o…International Brother…International Union o…International Union o…Teamsters Local 986 C…United Food and Comme…Communications Worker…Int Union United Auto…Amalgamated Charitabl…Teamster Disaster Rel…American Federation o…
Unite HereNY36.1× affinity15 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Unite Here · American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees · International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers · International Union of Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers · International Union of Painters and Allied Trades · Teamsters Local 986 Charity Fund Inc · United Food and Commercial Workers International Union · Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc · Int Union United Auto National Community Action Program · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Teamster Disaster Relief Fund · American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • National Center for Victims of Crime Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
17report 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 134 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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