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.

$225k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 10
Itemized grants FY2025: 8
Organizations funded FY2024: 13%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $153k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $15,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $40,000
Organizations funded a year: 8 to 12; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $80M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Laborers' Int'L Union of North America District Council of Chicago funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Food & NutritionEducationEmploymentHealthRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther

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	10	$153k	10%
FY2024	8	$99k	13%
FY2023	9	$106k	22%
FY2022	11	$165k	18%
FY2021	12	$195k	25%
FY2020	11	$218k	36%
FY2019	8	$170k	38%
FY2018	8	$150k	38%

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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$273kPhilanthropy$235kCivil Rights$220kHealth$188kEducation$118kFood & Nutrition$83kRecreation & Sports$73kScience & Tech$50kOther$0

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
American Heart Association Inc	$187,500	3	0%
Chicago Federation of Labor and Industrial Union Council	$182,500	7	1%
Laborers' District Council Charitable Foundation	$130,000	9	6%
Illinois Legislative Black Caucus Foundation	$120,000	8	6%
Terence J O'Sullivan Liuna Charitable Foundation	$105,000	7	1%
Chicago City Council Latino Caucus Foundation	$90,000	8	4%
Greater Chicago Food Depository	$55,000	3	0%
University of Illinois Foundation	$50,000	5	0%
Special Olympics Inc	$50,000	1	0%
Chicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative	$50,000	2	n/a

Show all 24 grantees

All grantees of Laborers' Int'L Union of North America District Council of Chicago by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
American Heart Association Inc	$187,500	3	0%
Chicago Federation of Labor and Industrial Union Council	$182,500	7	1%
Laborers' District Council Charitable Foundation	$130,000	9	6%
Illinois Legislative Black Caucus Foundation	$120,000	8	6%
Terence J O'Sullivan Liuna Charitable Foundation	$105,000	7	1%
Chicago City Council Latino Caucus Foundation	$90,000	8	4%
Greater Chicago Food Depository	$55,000	3	0%
University of Illinois Foundation	$50,000	5	0%
Special Olympics Inc	$50,000	1	0%
Chicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative	$50,000	2	n/a
Illinois Institute of Technology	$50,000	2	0%
St Mary of the Lake Seminary	$43,500	3	n/a
Michigan Laborers Scholarship Fund	$35,000	4	8%
Great Lakes Region Organizing Committee	$27,500	2	0%
Northern Illinois Food Bank	$27,500	2	0%
Ground Hog Club of Chicago	$24,990	3	3%
Sweeney Classic	$22,800	4	1%
Illinois Economic Policy Institute	$17,500	2	1%
A Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum	$14,000	2	1%
Hire360	$12,500	1	0%
Peggy Browning Fund	$10,000	1	1%
Vote Yes for Workers Rights	$10,000	1	n/a
Misericordia Home	$5,400	1	0%
Concrete Contractors Association Inc	$5,250	1	1%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Laborers' Int'L Union of North America District Council of Chicago 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 21.

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.

Great Lakes Region Organizing CommitteeIL20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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' Int'L Union of North America District Council of Chicago

How much does Laborers' Int'L Union of North America District Council of Chicago give?: Laborers' Int'L Union of North America District Council of Chicago reported 10 itemized grants totaling $152,720, out of $225,341 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Laborers' Int'L Union of North America District Council of Chicago fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Employment (20%), Philanthropy (18%), Civil Rights (16%).
Who are Laborers' Int'L Union of North America District Council of Chicago's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: American Heart Association Inc ($188k), Chicago Federation of Labor and Industrial Union Council ($183k), Laborers' District Council Charitable Foundation ($130k).
Does Laborers' Int'L Union of North America District Council of Chicago fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Laborers' Int'L Union of North America District Council of Chicago?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Great Lakes Region Organizing Committee, Laborers' International Union of North America Union Local # 1, International Union of Operating Engineers Local No 399.
Where is Laborers' Int'L Union of North America District Council of Chicago based?: Laborers' Int'L Union of North America District Council of Chicago is based in IL.