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Intl Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 117

We build unity and power for all working people to improve lives and lift up our communities.

$248k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Employment$111kCivil Rights$77kEducation$66kPublic Safety & Disaster$28kHousing & Shelter$21kPublic Benefit$8kMembership Benefit$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $80,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $247,536 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $167,036 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 $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $73k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
King County Labor Council$26,000
WA State Labor Council$16,500
Teamsters Scholarship Fund$10,000
Foundation for Working Famili$10,000
Teamsters Disaster Relief Fnd$10,000
James R Hoffa Mem Scholar$8,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Teamsters Local Union No 120: $5k → 7%Teamsters Local Union No 542: $5k → 11%James R Hoffa Mem Scholar: $10k → 14%WA St Democratic Central Comm: $8k → 9%James R Hoffa Mem Scholar: $10k → 14%WA State Labor Council: $35k → 9%Teamsters Disaster Relief Fnd: $10k → 14%WA State Labor Council: $17k → 9%Teamsters Scholarship Fund: $10k → 14%WA State Labor Council: $10k → 9%Teamsters Scholarship Fund: $10k → 14%Foundation for Working Famili: $10k → 9%Teamsters Scholarship Fund: $10k → 14%WA State Labor Council: $9k → 9%James R Hoffa Mem Scholar: $8k → 14%Foundation for Working Famili: $8k → 9%Teamsters Scholarship Fund: $8k → 14%King County Labor Council: $29k → 9%King County Labor Council: $26k → 9%King County Labor Council: $26k → 9%New Direction PAC: $29k → 9%Puget Sound Sage: $21k → 9%CAPE: $27k → 9%New Direction PAC: $12k → 9%MLK Labor Council: $22k → 9%Teamsters Local Union No 174: $10k → 9%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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$272k · 6 repeat orgs$112k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
7

Total granted

$272k
$102k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+28%

Still filing today

83%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
EducationSocial SciencePublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • ML
    MARTIN LUTHER KING JR COUNTY LABOR COUNCIL
    3× · 2021–2025 · $77k · revenue +162%
  • WS
    WASHINGTON STATE LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIO
    4× · 2020–2025 · $70k · revenue +26%
  • IB
    INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $38k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • C
    CAPE
    one grant, 2019 · $27k
  • KC
    King County Labor Council
    one grant, 2023 · $26k
  • PS
    PUGET SOUND SAGEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $21k · revenue +81%
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 Teamsters Local Union 137

Labor organization for various industries; ensuring fair wages and proper benefits for its members.

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2
International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local Union No 238

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

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3
International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 957

Labor union

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4
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 342

Labor union representing the electrical worker force

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5
International Brotherhood of 856 Tcwh Freight Checkers Clerical

Labor Union

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6
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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7
Afl-Cio Snohomish & Island County Labor Council

Member, affiliate, and community education for worker's issues - union and non-union

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8
International Brotherhood of Teamsters Chauffers Warehousemen Local No 554

The organization is a local teamsters union whose mission is to represent their union members in negotioations with employers.

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9
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union No 153

Labor union

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10
International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local Union No 330

To organize workers for their moral, economic and social advancement.

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11
Laborers' International Union of North America Laborers' Local #43

Promote and protect the interests of the members of the local

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12
Teamsters Chauffeurs Warehousemen & Helpers- Local No 773

To organize workers and to secure improved wages, benefits and working conditions.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is International Brotherhood of Teamsters; the most unlike its peers is Puget Sound Sage. 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

10 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. 10 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR COUNTY LABOR COUNCIL: $77,000 · OtherMARTIN LUTHER KING JR COUNTY LABOR COUNCILWASHINGTON STATE LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIO: $70,150 · OtherWASHINGTON STATE LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIOIndividual grant recipient: $41,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCAPE: $27,000 · OtherCAPEKing County Labor Council: $25,500 · OtherKing County Labor CouncilTEAMSTER DISASTER RELIEF FUND: $10,000 · OtherINTL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS LOCAL 174: $10,000 · Other+3 more: $18,150 · Other+3 moreINTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $38,000 · EducationINTERNATIONAL BROTH…JAMES R HOFFA MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $28,000 · EducationJAMES R HOFFA MEMOR…PUGET SOUND SAGE: $21,000 · Social ScienceFOUNDATION FOR WORKING FAMILIES: $17,500 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$278,800Education$66,000Social Science$21,000Public Safety & Disaster$17,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMARTIN LUTHER KING JR COUNTY LABOR COUNCIL: $77,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetWASHINGTON STATE LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIO: $70,150 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetINTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $38,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetJAMES R HOFFA MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $28,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetPUGET SOUND SAGE: $21,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR WORKING FAMILIES: $17,500 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetINTL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS LOCAL 174: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS: $5,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS: $5,250 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Intl Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 117 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Intl Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 117. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Intl Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 117?

    Find your warmest path to Intl Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 117 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 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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