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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $152,720 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $225,341 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $72,621 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 $10k3 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $133k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR | $40,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF ST MARY OF THE LAKE | $22,500 |
| CHICAGO CITY COUNCIL LATINO CAUCUS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| LABORERS' DISTRICT COUNCIL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| ILLINOIS LEGISLATIVE BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| GROUND HOG CLUB OF CHICAGO | $10,470 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $10,000 |
| ILLINOIS ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE | $7,500 |
| A PHILIP RANDOLPH PULLMAN PORTER MUSEUM | $7,000 |
| CONCRETE CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION | $5,250 |
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 (FY20–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
18 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc3× · 2019–2021 · $188k · revenue +43%
- LDLABORERS' DISTRICT COUNCIL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $130k · revenue +11%
- ILIllinois Legislative Black Caucus Foundation8× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +214%
Funded once
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +38%
- HHIRE360graduatedone grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue +74%
- PBPEGGY BROWNING FUNDone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -9%
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.
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.
To organize all workers for the econimic, moral and social advancement of their condition and status.
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To organize workers, negotiate wages and benefit contracts for construction craft laborers in the local construction industry, secure pratical work hours, improve working conditions, and secure othe economical benefits through…
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…
Collective bargaining and representation
To organize all workers for the economic, moral and social advancement of their condition and status.
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…
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…
Organize workers for advancement
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To organize workers for the moral, economic and social advancement of their condition and status.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Illinois Legislative Black Caucus Foundation and the most unlike its peers is American Heart 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 57 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
22 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. 22 of the 25 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 American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL UNION COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds LABORERS' DISTRICT COUNCIL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Illinois Legislative Black Caucus Foundation ↗
- Who funds TERENCE J O'SULLIVAN LIUNA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO CITY COUNCIL LATINO CAUCUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds Illinois Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds Chicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN LABORERS SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES REGION ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds GROUND HOG CLUB OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds SWEENEY CLASSIC ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds A PHILIP RANDOLPH PULLMAN PORTER MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HIRE360 ↗
- Who funds PEGGY BROWNING FUND ↗
- Who funds MISERICORDIA HOME ↗
- Who funds Concrete Contractors Association Inc ↗
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: Great Lakes Region Organizing Committee · Laborers' International Union of North America Union Local # 1 · International Union of Operating Engineers Local No 399 · Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council · Indiana Illinois & Iowa Foundation for Fair Contracting · Chicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative · The Chicago Community 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 Laborers' Int'L Union of North America District Council of Chicago 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.
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