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Labor Management Union Carpentry Cooperation Promotion Fund

To preserve and revitalize the carpentry industry and to increase opportunities for the bargaining unit employees and employers.

$535k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of LABOR MANAGEMENT UNION CARPENTRY COOPERATION PROMOTION FUND’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 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 20 grants below total $490,235 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $534,835 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $44,600 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 $10k5 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $256k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
$19,085
Median grant
1
States reached
$48M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION$50,000
CHICAGO WOMEN IN TRADES$50,000
ARISE CHICAGO$40,000
UNITED WAY OF METRO CHICAGO$35,000
THE WELL RESOURCE CENTER$30,000
DOVETAIL PROJECT$25,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF ILLINOIS$25,000
MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION$20,000
RCEC$19,085
MISERICORDIA$15,000
CHOOSE CHICAGO$15,000
NAVY PIER INC$12,000
SILVER CROSS FOUNDATION$10,000
DUPAGE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$10,000
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 (FY20–25, $160k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MISERICORDIA: $15k → 14%MISERICORDIA: $15k → 14%MISERICORDIA: $10k → 14%MISERICORDIA: $10k → 14%MISERICORDIA: $10k → 14%MISERICORDIA: $10k → 14%THE WELL RESOURCE CENTER: $35k → 14%THE WELL RESOURCE CENTER: $30k → 14%THE WELL RESOURCE CENTER: $25k → 14%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.

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.6M · 21 repeat orgs$300k 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 +25% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
11

Total granted

$2.6M
$267k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+25%

Still filing today

95%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EmploymentHealthEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • CF
    CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL UNION COUNCIL
    6× · 2020–2025 · $575k · revenue +25%
  • ARISE CHICAGO
    6× · 2020–2025 · $240k · revenue +303%
  • H
    HIRE360
    3× · 2021–2024 · $175k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • FH
    FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +28%
  • CJ
    CLIMATE JOBS ILLINOIS EDUCATION FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • AT
    ACE TECH CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2020 · $30k

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.

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Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce

The chicagoland chamber of commerce combines the power of people, with our legacy of leadership and business advocacy, to drive a dynamic economy. we focus on delivering value for our members, making chicagoland a world-class place to live…

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2
Industrial Council of Nearwest Chicago

Strengthen companies in the kinzie industrial corridor and facilitate economic and community development by providing services and incubator space.

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3
Chicago Municipal Employee's Credit Union

To give members the ability to control their financial destiny by providing members with the means to satisfy their needs for financial services in a comfortable family-like environment. in doing so, the credit union strives to maintain…

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4
Chicago Jobs Council

Chicago Jobs Council (CJC) pursues its mission through advocacy, applied research, public education and capacity-building initiatives focused on influencing the development or reform of public policies and programs. From 18 original…

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5
Fca of Illinois

A union painting, glazing, and drywall taping contractors association dedicated to improving the industry through negotiating and implementing a collective bargaining agreement, promoting safety, education, and training to its members,…

Community Improvement
6
Chicago Workers' Collaborative Nfp

Chicago Workers' Collaborative's mission is to promote full employment and equality for the lowest wage-earners, primarily temporary staffing workers, in the Chicago region through leadership and skills training, critical assistance and…

Education
7
Laborers' Int'l Union of North America District Council of Chicago

To promote unity of action in dealing with employers and to coordinate and consolidate the activities of its various affiliated local unions so they can work in a harmonious and united way.

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8
Local Economic and Employment Development Council Inc

North Branch Works is a membership-supported nonprofit neighborhood organization that for more than three decades has promoted balanced, job-creating economic development along the North Branch of the Chicago River.

Employment
9
Illinois Credit Union League

Support state and federally chartered credit unions in illinois by providing education, advocacy and compliance services allowing them to prosper in the financial marketplace.

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10
Illinois Manufacturers' Association

To strengthen the economic social environmental and governmental conditions for manufacturing and allied enterprises in the state of illinois, resulting in an englarged business base and increased employment.

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11
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
12
The Associated General Contractors Industry Advancement Fund

Primary purpose is the advancement of heavy highway industry in the state of illinois.

Employment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicagoland Associated General Contractors and the most unlike its peers is Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%6%<5yr14%6%5–10yr18%13%10–20yr17%22%20–35yr14%19%35–55yr16%34%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%5%<5yr14%7%5–10yr18%5%10–20yr17%20%20–35yr14%15%35–55yr16%48%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
6%
2/36
the rest of the field
15%
5,972/39,445

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

33 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. 33 of the 35 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/33
Grantees still filing
24/33
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL UNION COUNCIL — $575,000 · OtherCHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL UNION COUNCILCHICAGO WOMEN IN TRADES — $170,000 · OtherCHICAGO WOMEN IN TRADESSPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS — $150,000 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOISCHICAGO REGIONAL COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS SURVIVOR'S FUND CHARITABLE TRUST — $125,000 · OtherCHICAGO REGIONAL COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS SURVIVOR'S FUND CHARIT…RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTION EMPLOYERS COUNCIL — $79,085 · OtherPATHWAY TO ADVENTURE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $65,000 · Other+15 more — $401,650 · Other+15 moreARISE CHICAGO — $240,000 · EmploymentARISE CHICAGOHIRE360 — $175,000 · EmploymentHIRE360Chicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative — $25,000 · EmploymentChicago Federatio…American Heart Association Inc — $165,000 · HealthAmerican H…MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC — $102,500 · HealthMUSCULAR D…+1 more — $6,000 · HealthUniversity of Illinois Foundation — $160,000 · EducationCHICAGOLAND CONSTRUCTION SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $18,000 · EducationPARTNRSHP FOR EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS — $10,000 · EducationUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC — $165,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF WILL COUNTY — $7,500 · PhilanthropyThe Well Resource Center NFP — $90,000 · Human ServicesMISERICORDIA HOME — $70,000 · Human ServicesInternational Neighborhood Collaborative — $75,000 · Youth Development
Other$1,565,735Employment$440,000Health$273,500Education$188,000Philanthropy$172,500Human Services$160,000Youth Development$75,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL UNION COUNCIL — $575,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetARISE CHICAGO — $240,000 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetHIRE360 — $175,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCHICAGO WOMEN IN TRADES — $170,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $165,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC — $165,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation — $160,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS — $150,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCHICAGO REGIONAL COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS SURVIVOR'S FUND CHARITABLE TRUST — $125,000 over 3y, 100% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC — $102,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Well Resource Center NFP — $90,000 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetRESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTION EMPLOYERS COUNCIL — $79,085 over 5y, 15% of budgetInternational Neighborhood Collaborative — $75,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetMISERICORDIA HOME — $70,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPATHWAY TO ADVENTURE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $65,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDUPAGE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNAVY PIER INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGOLAND ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS — $29,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetASSOCIATION OF SUBCONTRACTORS & AFFILIATES — $27,600 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetACCELERATOR FOR AMERICA — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetChicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFederation of Women Contractors — $23,550 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetCHICAGOLAND CONSTRUCTION SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $18,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetILLINOIS ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE — $15,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPARTNRSHP FOR EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS — $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WILL COUNTY — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLeyden Family Service & Mental Health Center — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

The Chicago Community…Indiana Illinois & Io…Polk Bros Foundation …United Way of Metropo…Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Chicago Community TrustIL16.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Indiana Illinois & Iowa Foundation for Fair Contracting · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Labor Management Union Carpentry Cooperation Promotion Fund 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report 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, FY20–25

    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 Labor Management Union Carpentry Cooperation Promotion Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Labor Management Union Carpentry Cooperation Promotion Fund 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 35 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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