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International Union of Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers

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

$2.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
17
States reached
$282k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 79% of INTERNATIONAL UNION OF BRICKLAYERS & ALLIED CRAFTWORKERS’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 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 36 grants below total $1,686,213 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,531,031 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $844,818 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 $10k8 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $251k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+1 grant · $282k
$15,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$250M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$281,814
BAC LOCAL 05 OKLAHOMAARKANSASTEXAS$150,000
BAC ADC OF IL$147,294
BAC LOCAL 09 PA$118,689
LONESTAR SIERRA LLC$112,680
BAC LOCAL 08 SOUTHEAST$110,237
UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE$85,000
BAC LOCAL 7 NYNJ$74,037
BAC DISTRICT COUNCIL OF WISCONSIN$67,453
BAC LOCAL 02 NY$64,438
BAC LOCAL 08IL$56,953
ADMIN DISTRICT COUNCIL OF NEW JERSEY$55,064
INTL SCHOLARSHIPS & TUITION SVCS INC$55,000
BAC LOCAL 3 IOWA$40,714
BAC LOCAL 01 MNND$37,395
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 (FY19–22, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THINK HOPE FOUNDATION: $8k → 6%GUNS 'N HOSES: $5k → 11%THINK HOPE FOUNDATION: $6k → 6%GUNS 'N HOSES: $5k → 11%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

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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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$11M · 74 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

74 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 43 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

74
45

Total granted

$11M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+10%

Still filing today

49%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k 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
EducationEmploymentArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyInternationalOther

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

  • US
    UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $927k · revenue +6%
  • NM
    National Merit Scholarship Corporation
    8× · 2017–2024 · $365k · revenue +10%
  • WA
    WORKING AMERICA
    4× · 2017–2020 · $120k · revenue +187%

Funded once

  • TG
    The Good Land Committee Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $800k
  • LS
    LONESTAR SIERRA LLC
    one grant, 2020 · $195k
  • II
    IUPAT ISSUES CAMPAIGN
    one grant, 2017 · $100k

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…

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…

3
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…

4
Employ America

To promote macroeconomic policies that ensure the sustained advancement of labor market outcomes for all american workers, i.e. tight labor markets, higher wages and better quality employment.

Employment
5
Laborers International Union of Na Sewer and Tunnel Miners Union Local 2

Secure fair compensation and working conditions for all members.

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.

7
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.

8
The American Assembly

A national non partisan public policy forum to illuminate issues of public policy.

9
Association of Union Constructors

Our mission is to act as an advocate for the union construction and maintenance industry advancing the cause through an educated and action-driven membership. we aim to enhance labor-management cooperation, workplace safety and health, and…

10
The National Association of State Workforce Agencies

The national association of state workforce agencies (naswa) mission is to enhance the state workforce agencies' ability to accomplish their goals, statutory roles and responsibilities.

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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…

12
The Connecticut Construction Industries Association Inc

All activities conducted by the association are to enable it to:a. establish a better understanding between the members and companies in the construction and related industries.b. foster reasonable and just regulations by governments c.…

Employment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nontraditional Employment for Women. 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 backsteadySchool District FoundationsImmigrant Worker SupportCommunity FoundationsPregnancy Support ServicesWomen & Girls Leadership De…Environmental Conservation …Policy Research and AdvocacyUnited Way AffiliatesCommunity Arts CentersAddiction Recovery ServicesPublic Library Operations
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%5%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr16%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%37%10–20yr16%16%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%22%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%
3/70
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,495

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

64 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 64 of the 124 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)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/64
Grantees still filing
43/64
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JT THORPE & SON INC — $1,409,694 · OtherJT THORPE & SON INCBAC LOCAL 05 OKLAHOMAARKANSASTEXAS — $924,000 · OtherBAC LOCAL 05 OKLAHOMAARKANSASTEXASBAC LOCAL 08 SOUTHEAST — $808,782 · OtherBAC LOCAL 08 SOUTHEASTThe Good Land Committee Inc — $800,000 · OtherThe Good Land Committee IncIndividual grant recipient — $626,091 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBAC ADC OF IL — $448,049 · OtherREFTECH INTERNATIONAL INC — $406,524 · OtherBAC LOCAL 7 NYNJ — $364,735 · Other+89 more — $4,463,716 · Other+89 moreUNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE — $926,500 · Environment+1 more — $6,000 · EnvironmentNational Merit Scholarship Corporation — $364,595 · EducationACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF AMERICA INC — $52,500 · EducationPEGGY BROWNING FUND — $25,000 · Education+6 more — $57,500 · EducationHIGH-ROAD CONSTRUCTION DEFENSE FUND — $115,500 · EmploymentJobs with Justice Education Fund — $115,000 · EmploymentCENTER FOR MILITARY RECRUITMENT ASSESSMENT AND VETERANS EMPLOYMENT — $64,000 · EmploymentNONTRADITIONAL EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMEN — $17,500 · Employment+1 more — $10,000 · EmploymentTHE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE — $105,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM — $62,500 · Arts & CultureEDWARD M KENNEDY INSTITUTE FOR THE UNITED STATES SENATE INC — $15,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $5,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICA'S AGENDA HEALTHCARE EDUCATION FUND — $75,000 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC — $57,500 · HealthDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC — $38,000 · HealthPATHWAY HOMES INC — $14,500 · HealthNATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS — $105,000 · InternationalWASHINGTON IRELAND PROGRAM FOR SERVICE & LEADERSHIP — $32,500 · InternationalGLOBAL FAIRNESS INITIATIVE — $10,000 · International
Other$10,251,591Environment$932,500Education$499,595Employment$322,000Arts & Culture$187,500Health$185,000International$147,500

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 budgetUNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE — $926,500 over 9y, 4.8% of budgetThe Good Land Committee Inc — $800,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetNational Merit Scholarship Corporation — $364,595 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCHRISTOPHER P GARDNER FOUNDATI — $125,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetWORKING AMERICA — $120,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICANS FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH — $119,803 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetHIGH-ROAD CONSTRUCTION DEFENSE FUND — $115,500 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetJobs with Justice Education Fund — $115,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS — $105,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE — $105,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPROGRESSIVE CAUCUS ACTION FUND — $95,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE — $95,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICA'S AGENDA HEALTHCARE EDUCATION FUND — $75,000 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetCENTER FOR MILITARY RECRUITMENT ASSESSMENT AND VETERANS EMPLOYMENT — $64,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM — $62,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLABOR COUNCIL FOR LATIN AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT — $58,300 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC — $57,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF AMERICA INC — $52,500 over 5y, 21% of budgetUNITE HERE EDUCATION AND SUPPORT FUND — $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC — $38,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA — $34,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON IRELAND PROGRAM FOR SERVICE & LEADERSHIP — $32,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF EMPLOYERS OF BRICKLAYERS & ALLIED CRAFTWORKERS — $30,200 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetAMERICAN LADDER INSTITUTE — $30,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetFORMER MEMBERS OF CONGRESS — $28,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LABOR HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $27,400 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetMASON CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA — $25,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetPEGGY BROWNING FUND — $25,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetUNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNONTRADITIONAL EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMEN — $17,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOALITION OF LABOR UNION WOMEN — $15,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetTHE LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPATHWAY HOMES INC — $14,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHINK HOPE — $14,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetA PHILIP RANDOLPH INSTITUTE — $12,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetPAINTERS AND ALLIED TRADES FOR CHILDREN'S HOPE FOUNDATION — $12,500 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetGREATER NEW YORK COUNCILS BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRECONNECTING MCDOWELL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGLOBAL FAIRNESS INITIATIVE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHealing Emergency Aid Response Team 911 — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSt Louis Guns N Hoses Boxing Association — $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetJobs with Justice — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWORKERS DEFENSE LEAGUE INC — $10,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetREGINA ACADEMY AT ST JOHN THE BAPTIST — $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budget21st Century School Fund — $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetBELFAST-BELTWAY BOXING PROJECT — $7,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetJAMES R HOFFA MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

  • Who funds UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE
  • Who funds The Good Land Committee Inc
  • Who funds National Merit Scholarship Corporation
  • Who funds CHRISTOPHER P GARDNER FOUNDATI
  • Who funds WORKING AMERICA
  • Who funds AMERICANS FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH
  • Who funds HIGH-ROAD CONSTRUCTION DEFENSE FUND
  • Who funds Jobs with Justice Education Fund
  • Who funds NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
  • Who funds THE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE
  • Who funds PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS ACTION FUND
  • Who funds ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE
  • Who funds AMERICA'S AGENDA HEALTHCARE EDUCATION FUND
  • Who funds MILLIONS OF GREAT AMERICANS
  • Who funds CENTER FOR MILITARY RECRUITMENT ASSESSMENT AND VETERANS EMPLOYMENT

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.

International Brotherhood of Electrical WorkersDC51.3× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers · International Union of Painters and Allied Trades · International Brotherhood of Teamsters · United Food and Commercial Workers International Union · International Brotherhood of Boilermakers Iron Ship Builders · Laborers' International Union of North America · Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc · International Union of Elevator Constructors · International Assn of Bridge Structural Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers · 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

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 Union of Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 60%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    6get no government money at all
    10report 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, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to International Union of Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers?

    Find your warmest path to International Union of Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 124 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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