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International Union of Operating Engineers Local No 399 at a glance

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International Union of Operating Engineers Local No 399

The union represents its members and the services provided to the membership include arbitration, organization, and negotiation and implementation of collective bargaining agreements.

$142k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Civil Rights$300kEmployment$143kArts & Culture$93kHealth$71kReligion$52kEducation$51kRecreation & Sports$46kPublic Safety & Disaster$45kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $79,404, the rows itemized in this filing. The $142,174 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $62,770 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 · $25k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $55k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NAVY PIER$12,319
SPECIAL CHILDRENS CHARITIES$12,000
THE IRISH FELLOWSHIP CLUB OF CHICAGO$10,200
SPECIAL OLYMPICS CHICAGO$10,000
CHOOSE CHICAGO$10,000
MARIST HIGH SCHOOL$7,200
EXTOLLO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$7,000
CHICAGO ST PATRICKS DAY PARADE$5,500
MARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES$5,185
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 (FY25–25, $5k) 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%MARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$443k · 10 repeat orgs$400k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
9

Total granted

$443k
$371k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+45%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
EducationArts & CultureEmploymentHealthPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • CF
    Chicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative
    2× · 2017–2019 · $62k · revenue +1%
  • SC
    Special Children's Charities
    4× · 2022–2025 · $52k · revenue +97%
  • IF
    IRISH FELLOWSHIP CLUB OF CHICAGO
    5× · 2020–2025 · $52k · revenue +179% · 32% of their budget

Funded once

  • VY
    VOTE YES FOR WORKERS RIGHTS
    one grant, 2022 · $300k
  • SP
    ST PATRICKS DAY FOUNDATION NYC
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -61%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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
True Chicago
Arts & Culture
2
Chicago's Environmental Fund
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3
The Chicago Bar Foundation

The chicago bar foundation brings the legal community together through advocacy, funding, and innovation to improve access to justice for people in need and to make the legal system more fair, equitable, and effective.

Education
4
Chicago Board of Trade Foundation
—
5
The Chicago Innovation Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Chicago Convention and Tourism Bureau

The chicago convention and tourism bureau is the premier sales and marketing organization that promotes chicago's world-class assets to global leisure travel and convention business to ensure the economic vitality of the city and its…

—
7
Columbian Club of Chicago

To raise funds to be contributed to various public charities

Philanthropy
8
Latino Union of Chicago

Latino Union works to defend the rights and dignity of contingent workers, including the right to immigrate, work, live free of oppression and violence, and provide for oneself and one's family.

Human Services
9
Iron Workers District Council of Chicago and Vicinity

Organize workers for advancement

—
10
Chicago Freedom Trust
Philanthropy
11
Students Run Chicago
Health
12
Chicago Maritime Museum

Operation of a nautical history museum.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Choose Chicago Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Chicago Sun Times Charity 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

19 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. 19 of the 23 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
12/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VOTE YES FOR WORKERS RIGHTS: $300,000 · OtherVOTE YES FOR WORKERS RIGHTSSpecial Children's Charities: $52,000 · OtherSpecial Children's CharitiesIRISH FELLOWSHIP CLUB OF CHICAGO: $51,625 · OtherIRISH FELLOWSHIP CLUB OF CHICAGOCHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL UNION COUNCIL: $45,000 · OtherCHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL UNION COUNCIL+5 more: $40,808 · Other+5 moreChicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative: $61,900 · EmploymentChicago Federatio…OPERATING ENGINEERS NATIONAL CHARITY FUND: $45,000 · EmploymentOPERATING ENGINEE…ARISE CHICAGO: $20,000 · EmploymentARISE CHICAGONAVY PIER INC: $41,319 · Arts & CultureNAVY PIER IN…SOUTH SIDE IRISH ST PATRICK'S DAY PARADE AND HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC: $37,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH SIDE I…ST PATRICKS DAY FOUNDATION NYC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureST PATRICKS …MARCH OF DIMES INC: $58,500 · HealthIRISH FELLOWSHIP EDUCATIONAL & CULTURAL FOUNDATION: $30,500 · EducationJESSE WHITE FOUNDATION LTD: $10,000 · EducationEXTOLLO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $7,000 · EducationUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $6,000 · EducationCHOOSE CHICAGO FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Community ImprovementSWEENEY CLASSIC: $6,150 · PhilanthropyMARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES INC: $5,185 · Human Services
Other$489,433Employment$126,900Arts & Culture$93,319Health$58,500Education$53,500Community Improvement$10,000Philanthropy$6,150Human Services$5,185

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 budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $58,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Children's Charities: $52,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetIRISH FELLOWSHIP CLUB OF CHICAGO: $51,625 over 5y, 32% of budgetOPERATING ENGINEERS NATIONAL CHARITY FUND: $45,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetCHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL UNION COUNCIL: $45,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNAVY PIER INC: $41,319 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH SIDE IRISH ST PATRICK'S DAY PARADE AND HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC: $37,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetIRISH FELLOWSHIP EDUCATIONAL & CULTURAL FOUNDATION: $30,500 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetARISE CHICAGO: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetST PATRICKS DAY FOUNDATION NYC: $15,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetJESSE WHITE FOUNDATION LTD: $10,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS: $9,300 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHICAGO SUN TIMES CHARITY TRUST: $7,500 over 1y, 12% of budgetEXTOLLO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSWEENEY CLASSIC: $6,150 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES INC: $5,185 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

International Union o…International Brother…Great Lakes Region Or…Int'L Union of Brickl…Laborers' Int'L Union…Chicago Federation of…Indiana Illinois & Io…Chicago Journeymen Pl…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …
International Union of Operating Engineers 150IL17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: International Union of Operating Engineers 150 · International Brotherhood of Painters & Allied Trades District Council #14 · Great Lakes Region Organizing Committee · Int'L Union of Bricklayers & Allied Craftsmen Admin District Council · Laborers' Int'L Union of North America District Council of Chicago · Chicago Federation of Labor and Industrial Union Council · Indiana Illinois & Iowa Foundation for Fair Contracting · Chicago Journeymen Plumbers' Local Union 130 Ua · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Union of Operating Engineers Local No 399 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from International Union of Operating Engineers Local No 399. 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%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 23 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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