· Public charity
Intl Union of Operating Engin Local 139
To elevate the trade of operating engineers and improve the social, ecomonic and working conditions of its members.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $168,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $218,527 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $50,027 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 $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $49k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $114k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOGS FOR HEROES INC | $113,500 |
| ILLINOIS ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE | $15,000 |
| WISCONSIN TRANSPORTATION BUILDERS ASSOCIATION INC | $12,000 |
| DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF WISONSIN | $12,000 |
| ALLIANT ENERGY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FAIR RATES FOR WISCONSINS DAIRYLAND | $6,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- HFHogs for Heroes Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $469k · revenue +43% · 34% of their budget
- WIWISCONSIN INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT NOW INC2× · 2019–2024 · $100k · revenue +279%
- FRFAIR RATES FOR WISCONSIN'S DAIRYLAND INC7× · 2018–2025 · $65k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- GWGREATER WISCONSIN COMMITTEE INCone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -97%
- WPWISCONSINEYE PUBLIC AFFAIRS NETWORK INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -31%
- SCSWEENEY CLASSICgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $21k · revenue +123%
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.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
To advance progressive values, ideas and policies through research, policy, networking, advocacy and public education.
Wisconsin progress institute exists to empower wisconsin's locally elected leaders with the tools, training, and support they need to be effective, values-driven public servants.
United way of wisconsin is dedicated to supporting and enriching a strong statewide united way network that maximizes the capacity of local united ways to address human needs, improve lives and create lasting positive change across…
Wisconsin principles (wp) is a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization dedicated to preserving conservative values in the state of wisconsin. committed to fiscal conservatism, educational choice, and individual liberty, we strive to empower…
Milwaukee women inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to maximize the performance of public and private companies with a focus on women and women of color.
The wisconsin broadcasters association foundation contribution to broadcasting in wisconsin encompasses a strategic, long term vision for enhancing, promoting and supporting the broadcast industry by encouraging the preservation of…
Founded in 1911, our mission is to make wisconsin the most competitive state in the nation to do business. we are wisconsin's business voice.
Driving innovation for the energy, power, and controls sector by synchronizing market insights, technology innovation and talent & start-up development into a new innovation engine for economic development and growth.
To protect and improve the lives of its members through family supporting wages and benefits, as well as through programs and services designed to make its members the safest, most skilled and productive workers in the laborers industry.
The league of women voters of wisconsin (lwvwi) is a nonpartisan political organization. we encourage informed, active participation in government and work to increase understanding of major public policy issues. we influence public policy…
To foster the vitality of rural wisconsin, primarily through the promotion of education, improvement of health care services, cultural experiences, and support of the rural economic base.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wisconsin Infrastructure Investment Now Inc and the most unlike its peers is Alliant Energy Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 19 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 Hogs for Heroes Inc ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT NOW INC ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds FAIR RATES FOR WISCONSIN'S DAIRYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WISCONSIN COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSINEYE PUBLIC AFFAIRS NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds TRANSPORTATION DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANT ENERGY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ST PATRICKS DAY FOUNDATION NYC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN TRANSPORTATION BUILDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SWEENEY CLASSIC ↗
- Who funds EXPERIENCE GREATER GREEN BAY INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN PROGRESS INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATING ENGINEERS NATIONAL CHARITY FUND ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF METRO MILWAUKEE ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN STATE AFL-CIO ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE URBAN LEAGUE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: JOINT LABOR MANAGEMENT AND Work Preservation Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Union of Operating Engin Local 139 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.