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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.

$225k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $152,720, the rows itemized in this filing. The $225,341 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $72,621 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $133k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$80M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MISERICORDIA: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 18 repeat orgs$103k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
6

Total granted

$1.2M
$98k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+62%

Still filing today

94%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEmploymentPhilanthropyCivil RightsFood & NutritionHealthOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    3× · 2019–2021 · $188k · revenue +43%
  • LD
    LABORERS' DISTRICT COUNCIL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $130k · revenue +11%
  • IL
    Illinois Legislative Black Caucus Foundation
    8× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +214%

Funded once

  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +38%
  • H
    HIRE360graduated
    one grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue +74%
  • PB
    PEGGY BROWNING FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -9%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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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2
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations

To organize all workers for the econimic, moral and social advancement of their condition and status.

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3
Latino Union of Chicago

Latino Union works to defend the rights and dignity of contingent workers, including the right to immigrate, work, live free of oppression and violence, and provide for oneself and one's family.

Human Services
4
Downstate Illinios Laborers District Cou

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…

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5
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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6
Laborers International Union of State of Mi

Collective bargaining and representation

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7
American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Orgs

To organize all workers for the economic, moral and social advancement of their condition and status.

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8
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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9
Laborers International Union of 341 Hcl

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…

—
10
Iron Workers District Council of Chicago and Vicinity

Organize workers for advancement

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11
International Union of Operating Engineers 150

Labor organization representing members in a variety of industries including construction, construction material production, steel mill services/slag processing, landscaping and many others principally in illinois, indiana and iowa. the…

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12
Central Midwest Regional Council of Carpenters

To organize workers for the moral, economic and social advancement of their condition and status.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Illinois Legislative Black Caucus Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
15/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL UNION COUNCIL: $182,500 · OtherCHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR AND INDUSTR…TERENCE J O'SULLIVAN LIUNA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $105,000 · OtherTERENCE J O'SULLIVAN LIUNA CHARITABLE F…ST MARY OF THE LAKE SEMINARY: $43,500 · OtherST MARY OF THE LAKE SEMINARYGROUND HOG CLUB OF CHICAGO: $24,990 · OtherGROUND HOG CLUB OF CHICAGOSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $50,000 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS INCILLINOIS ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE: $17,500 · Other+5 more: $44,650 · Other+5 moreIllinois Legislative Black Caucus Foundation: $120,000 · Civil RightsIllinois Legislat…CHICAGO CITY COUNCIL LATINO CAUCUS FOUNDATION: $90,000 · Civil RightsCHICAGO CITY COUN…American Heart Association Inc: $187,500 · HealthAmerican Heart …LABORERS' DISTRICT COUNCIL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $130,000 · PhilanthropyLABORERS' DI…SWEENEY CLASSIC: $22,800 · PhilanthropySWEENEY CLAS…University of Illinois Foundation: $50,000 · EducationUniversity o…Illinois Institute of Technology: $50,000 · EducationIllinois Ins…MICHIGAN LABORERS SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $35,000 · EducationMICHIGAN LAB…PEGGY BROWNING FUND: $10,000 · EducationPEGGY BROWNI…Chicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative: $50,000 · EmploymentGREAT LAKES REGION ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: $27,500 · EmploymentHIRE360: $12,500 · EmploymentGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $55,000 · Food & NutritionNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $27,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$468,140Civil Rights$210,000Health$187,500Philanthropy$152,800Education$145,000Employment$90,000Food & Nutrition$82,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $187,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL UNION COUNCIL: $182,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetLABORERS' DISTRICT COUNCIL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $130,000 over 9y, 6.3% of budgetIllinois Legislative Black Caucus Foundation: $120,000 over 8y, 6.1% of budgetTERENCE J O'SULLIVAN LIUNA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $105,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetCHICAGO CITY COUNCIL LATINO CAUCUS FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIllinois Institute of Technology: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMICHIGAN LABORERS SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $35,000 over 4y, 7.8% of budgetGREAT LAKES REGION ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: $27,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $27,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGROUND HOG CLUB OF CHICAGO: $24,990 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetSWEENEY CLASSIC: $22,800 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetILLINOIS ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE: $17,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetA PHILIP RANDOLPH PULLMAN PORTER MUSEUM: $14,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHIRE360: $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPEGGY BROWNING FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMISERICORDIA HOME: $5,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConcrete Contractors Association Inc: $5,250 over 1y, 1.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 Or…Laborers' Internation…International Union o…Mid-America Carpenter…Indiana Illinois & Io…Chicago Federation of…The Chicago Community…Fidelity Investments …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Laborers' Int'L Union of North America District Council of Chicago funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Laborers' Int'L Union of North America District Council of Chicago. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's 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
    6report 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to Laborers' Int'L Union of North America District Council of Chicago 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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