How much did LABORERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 78% of LABORERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

environmenthealthhousingirelanddemocracyshale energysupply chain

2020

pbfadvocatesworkplacelegalpeggy browningorderdescription

2021

athleticculturalexchangeofferyouthpbfadvocates

2022

veteransnorthpolicy

2023

veteransjobsschedulepolicy

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k8 grants · $121k
$50k–250k1 grant · $150k
$250k+1 grant · $300k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$409M

Total assets

Largest grants

AMERICANS FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH$300,000
NEW ENGLAND LABORERS'$150,000
ALWAYS LEARNING RHODE ISLAND$30,000
LABOR COUNCIL FOR LATIN AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT$20,000
AFL-CIO UNION VETERANS COUNCIL$20,000
KIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION$11,000
THE CONNELL F SMITH-HOMER$10,000
CONNECT MARICOPA$10,000
DC TOYS FOR TOTS$10,000
US CAPITOL HISTORICAL SOCIETY$10,000

02The need

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 (FY20–23, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$11M · 15 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +89% since the first grant, against +49% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$11M

$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+89%

+49%

Still filing today

87%

81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationEmploymentPhilanthropyArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentOther

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

RU
REBUILD USA
6× · 2019–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +178%
NE
NEW ENGLAND LABORERS' APPRENTICESHIP ADVANCEMENT FUND
6× · 2019–2024 · $875k · revenue +21% · 81% of their budget
EM
EDWARD M KENNEDY INSTITUTE FOR THE UNITED STATES SENATE
2× · 2019–2020 · $200k · revenue +178%

Funded once

HR
HIGH ROAD CONSTRUCTION
one grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue -99%
NA
NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR FAIR CONTRACTINGgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $200k · revenue +56% · 27% of their budget
CL
CONNECTICUT LABORERS' DISTRICT COUNCILgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $150k · revenue +53%

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.

Laborers International Union of

Union hall- betterment of members compensation and working conditions

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American Federation of Labor & Congress

Central labor body

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Laborers' International Union

To improve working conditions and living standards of members through collective bargaining, education and training, employee benefits.

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Laborers International Union of Na

Secure fair compensation and working conditions for all members.

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Laborers' International Union Local 1092

To coordinate any labor matters and to administer to any labor problems of members of the union.

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The Laborers Northwest Regional

To assist local unions and district councils in the northwest region of the laborers' international union of north america (liuna!).

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Laborers International Union of State of Mi

Collective bargaining and representation

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American Federation of Labor & Bldg

To create a better working environment for the construction industry and its members.

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Afl-Cio Union Lawyers Alliance

Afl-cio union lawyers alliance was established to better the conditions of workers and their families by enhancing the quality of legal representation that is available to the afl-cio and the national and international unions affiliated…

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Eastern Atlantic States Regional

Labor union maintaining and improving the benefit and working conditions of members engaged in the carpentry trade.

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Massachusetts and Northern

Membership organization representing approximately 17,000 union members for purposes of collective bargaining.

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Laborers' International Union of North

A fraternal labor organization whose purpose is to promote employment of members in a safe work environment and ensure fair labor practices.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Capital & Main and the most unlike its peers is Iona University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 20 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/47

the rest of the field

10%

1,356/12,954

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.

05the grantee network

41 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

39/41

Grantees still filing

29/41

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$10,007,020Employment$1,550,000Arts & Culture$305,000Education$256,000Environment$230,000Philanthropy$200,000Civil Rights$120,000

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.

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.

International Union of Painters AndMD24.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: International Union of Painters And · International Union of Bricklayers & · International Brotherhood Of · International Brotherhood of Teamsters · American Federation of State County · International Union of Elevator · Greater Washington Community Foundation · International Assn of Bridge Structural · Int Union United Auto National · Unite Here · Communications Workers of America · American Federation of Labor And

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 organisation LABORERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION 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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: NEW ENGLAND LABORERS' APPRENTICESHIP ADVANCEMENT FUND.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~9 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 030466664 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on NEW ENGLAND LABORERS' APPRENTICESHIP ADVANCEMENT FUND, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 9 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 81% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Laborers' International Union?

Find your warmest path to Laborers' International Union through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

LABORERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

41 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Laborers' International Union?

More from the funding graph

LABORERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

41 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Laborers' International Union?

More from the funding graph