· Public charity
Intl Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union No 46
To organize workers in the electrical industry, including public utilities and manufacturing, into local unions, promote reasonable methods of work, settle disputes between employers and employees by arbitration, assist members, reduce hours, secure adequate pay for work, seek a higher standard of living for members, seek security for…
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 90% of Intl Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union No 46’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 9 grants below total $204,815 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $301,077 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $96,262 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $79k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IBEW- Political Action Committee | $100,460 |
| WA St Democratic Central Comm | $30,000 |
| IBEW | $28,955 |
| No on 2117 Committee | $10,000 |
| Electrcl Wrks Minority Caucus | $10,000 |
| Washington Women in Trades | $7,900 |
| Electrical Workers 46 PAC | $6,000 |
| Kent Station Retail LLC | $6,000 |
| IBEW LOCAL 77 | $5,500 |
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 (FY22–22, $10k) 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.
9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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 WORKERS2× · 2023–2024 · $57k · revenue +18%
- SASound Alliance5× · 2017–2021 · $50k · revenue +5%
- IBINTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS LOCAL 77 & SUBS3× · 2021–2024 · $17k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $48k
- TETribal Electric LLCone grant, 2023 · $21k
- WWWashington Works for US PACone grant, 2017 · $20k
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.
Representation of workers
Maintain labor relations and promote the interest of its members in their employment as electrical workers.
Local Labor Union Representing Members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
To coordinate the political and legislative effort of local unions
Local Labor Union Representing Members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.
The Union and its employees work for the benefit of its membership including negotiations of wages, benefits, and working conditions.
Labor union - electrical workers
Member, affiliate, and community education for worker's issues - union and non-union
Labor union representing the electrical worker force
To organize all electrical workers in the construction industry, to promote goodwill among all of those in our trade, to assist each other in sickness and in distress, to secure employment for our members, to secure adequate pay for our…
To provide the members of the local electrical union with services and benefits.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the most unlike its peers is No on 2117 Committee. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 28 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 Sound Alliance ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON WOMEN IN TRADES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS LOCAL 77 & SUBS ↗
- Who funds Forth ↗
- Who funds MARTIN LUTHER KING JR COUNTY LABOR COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Electrical Workers Minority Caucus of San Diego and Imperial Counties ↗
- Who funds APPRENTICESHIP AND NONTRADITIONAL EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMEN ↗
- Who funds EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA ↗
- Who funds No on 2117 Committee ↗
- Who funds RENTON TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds A LEGACY OF EQUALITY LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZING ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Seattle 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 Intl Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union No 46 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.