· Public charity
Laborers International Union of Local Union 270
Improve welfare and working conditions of workers through job dispatch, representation, and education of members.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $63,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $116,486 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $53,486 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $57k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHERN CA LABORERS SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $20,000 |
| SAN JOSE NEWS BUREAU | $15,000 |
| CHRISTMAS IN THE PARK | $12,000 |
| LOCAL 300 SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $10,000 |
| GILROY RODEO ASSOCIATION | $6,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 39% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- NCNorthern California Laborers Scholarship Foundation7× · 2018–2024 · $142k · revenue +71%
- SJSan Jose News Bureau5× · 2019–2024 · $58k · revenue +108%
- LLLABORERS' LOCAL 300 SCHOLARSHIP FUND5× · 2019–2024 · $48k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- ACAGC CONSTRUCTION EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +257%
- ILINSTITUTO LABORAL DE LA RAZAone grant, 2018 · $8k
- AGASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF CALIFORNIA INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +53%
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 benefit local trade unions and their members through education and promotion of union labor to the public.
The Labor Council offers an avenue for local unions to come together as one group.
to organize workers in the laborers international union of north America, afl-cio pacific southwest region through a coordinated program to maintain and improve employment opportunities for affiliated local union members and to recruit new…
The council coordinated the efforts of affiliated local unions and assisted their organizations work, bettering the working conditions of their members.
The North Valley Labor Federations mission is to grow and strengthen the labor movement and build a strong political voice for working families in the Northern San Joaquin Valley.
To promote the use of union building trades in construction projects in the bay area.
Provide all member employers with current human resource and California labor law information.
To provide scholarships for the dependents of union members of the cement and concrete workers district council.
To promote and represent union contractors, inform them about issues affecting the industry and provide the members with support services and peer networks that will help them to succeed.
To foster cooperation between labor and management in the south bay area through communication, training and education.
To improve the lives of working families, bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our state and the nation.
The council was organized to promote the growth and development of all building and construction trades and organized labor within its jurisdiction.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northern California Laborers Scholarship Foundation and the most unlike its peers is San Jose News Bureau. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 14 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 Laborers Local 270 Scholarship Committee ↗
- Who funds Northern California Laborers Scholarship Foundation ↗
- Who funds San Jose News Bureau ↗
- Who funds LABORERS' LOCAL 300 SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds Working Partnerships USA ↗
- Who funds GILROY RODEO ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CHRISTMAS IN THE PARK ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA DISTRICT COUNCIL OF LABORERS MIKE QUEVEDO SR SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds LIUNA PACIFIC SOUTHWEST EDUCATION AND EVENTS FUND ↗
- Who funds AGC CONSTRUCTION EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF CALIFORNIA 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.
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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 International Union of Local Union 270 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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