Who are Laborers Employers Cooperation and Education Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Laborers-Employers Benefit Plan Collection Trust ($500k), Transportation California ($180k), Laborers' Health and Safety Fund of North America ($120k).

Does Laborers Employers Cooperation and Education Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

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Washington, D.C. · Public charity

Laborers Employers Cooperation and Education Trust

The mission is to maximize project opportunities for signatory contractors and job opportunities for liuna members.

$69k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 4
Itemized grants FY2025: 3
Organizations funded FY2024: 67%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $65k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $15,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $30,000
Organizations funded a year: 3 to 10; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $19M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Laborers Employers Cooperation and Education Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 68% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationYouth DevelopmentInternationalArts & CultureEmploymentHuman ServicesOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	4	$65k	0%
FY2024	3	$118k	67%
FY2023	10	$164k	40%
FY2022	5	$83k	0%
FY2021	7	$86k	43%
FY2020	6	$585k	33%
FY2019	6	$91k	17%
FY2018	7	$111k	29%

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What it funded, over time

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

Employment$817kEnvironment$150kCommunity Improvement$150kHealth$110kInternational$53kArts & Culture$45kPhilanthropy$25kPublic Safety & Disaster$17kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Laborers-Employers Benefit Plan Collection Trust	$500,000	1	0%
Transportation California	$180,000	7	9%
Laborers' Health and Safety Fund of North America	$120,000	3	1%
Michigan Lecet	$110,000	3	n/a
National Demolition Association	$78,000	8	1%
Laborers Employers Cooperation and Educ Trust Sw	$70,800	1	3%
Washington Ireland Program for Service & Leadership	$52,500	4	4%
The New England Laborers Apprenticeship Advancement Fund	$45,000	4	6%
National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners	$42,482	3	0%
National Maintenance Agreement Labor- Management Policy Committee	$33,000	6	0%

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All grantees of Laborers Employers Cooperation and Education Trust by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Laborers-Employers Benefit Plan Collection Trust	$500,000	1	0%
Transportation California	$180,000	7	9%
Laborers' Health and Safety Fund of North America	$120,000	3	1%
Michigan Lecet	$110,000	3	n/a
National Demolition Association	$78,000	8	1%
Laborers Employers Cooperation and Educ Trust Sw	$70,800	1	3%
Washington Ireland Program for Service & Leadership	$52,500	4	4%
The New England Laborers Apprenticeship Advancement Fund	$45,000	4	6%
National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners	$42,482	3	0%
National Maintenance Agreement Labor- Management Policy Committee	$33,000	6	0%
Solar Energy Industries Association	$30,000	2	0%
Terence J O'Sullivan Liuna Charitable Foundation	$25,000	2	1%
American Irish Historical Society Inc	$25,000	1	3%
DC Friends of Ireland	$20,000	2	4%
National Alliance for Fair Contracting	$20,000	2	1%
Wisconsin Laborers' District Council	$15,000	1	1%
Greater Providence Young Mens Christian Association	$10,000	1	0%
University of Rhode Island Foundation & Alumni Engagement	$10,000	1	0%
Liuna Pacific Southwest Education and Events Fund	$6,000	1	1%

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Laborers Employers Cooperation and Education Trust supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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.

Laborers' Health and Safety Fund of North AmericaDC15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Laborers' Health and Safety Fund of North America · Great Lakes Region Organizing Committee · Laborers' International Union of North America

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.

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About Laborers Employers Cooperation and Education Trust

How much does Laborers Employers Cooperation and Education Trust give?: Laborers Employers Cooperation and Education Trust reported 4 itemized grants totaling $65,000, out of $68,800 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Laborers Employers Cooperation and Education Trust fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Employment (59%), Environment (11%), Community Improvement (11%).
Who are Laborers Employers Cooperation and Education Trust's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Laborers-Employers Benefit Plan Collection Trust ($500k), Transportation California ($180k), Laborers' Health and Safety Fund of North America ($120k).
Does Laborers Employers Cooperation and Education Trust fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Laborers Employers Cooperation and Education Trust?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Laborers' Health and Safety Fund of North America, Great Lakes Region Organizing Committee, Laborers' International Union of North America.
Where is Laborers Employers Cooperation and Education Trust based?: Laborers Employers Cooperation and Education Trust is based in DC.