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Laborers' International Union of North America

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

$914k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 77% of LABORERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 10 grants below total $735,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $914,332 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $179,332 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

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $135k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $350k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$30,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$449M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LABORERS' EMPLOYER BENEFIT$250,000
AMERICANS FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH$200,000
NEW ENGLAND LABORERS'$150,000
LABOR COUNCIL FOR LATIN AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT$40,000
CONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND$30,000
UA CHARITABLE FUND$25,000
LIUNA LATINO CAUCUS$10,000
STEEL VALLEY AUTHORITY$10,000
LIUNA WOMENS CAUCUS$10,000
LIUNA AFRICAN AMERICAN CAUCUS$10,000
02The need
03

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 (FY20–25, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MOTION PICTURE & TELEVISION FUND: $50k → 14%CONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND: $30k → 14%OPERATION NO PERSON LEFT BEHIND INC: $5k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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Grants abroad, by region — $150k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$150k · 100% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: GENERAL SUPPORT

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$12M · 16 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
31

Total granted

$12M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
0%

Still filing today

81%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $335k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEmploymentPhilanthropyArts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • AF
    AMERICANS FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH
    7× · 2019–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +27%
  • TN
    THE NEW ENGLAND LABORERS APPRENTICESHIP ADVANCEMENT FUND
    7× · 2019–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +10% · 81% of their budget
  • EM
    EDWARD M KENNEDY INSTITUTE FOR THE UNITED STATES SENATE INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $200k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • HC
    HIGH-ROAD CONSTRUCTION DEFENSE FUND
    one grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue -99%
  • NA
    NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR FAIR CONTRACTING
    one grant, 2019 · $200k · revenue -2% · 27% of their budget
  • CL
    CONNECTICUT LABORERS' DISTRICT COUNCIL
    one grant, 2019 · $150k · revenue +15%

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.

1
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…

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2
Laborers International Union of State of Mi

Collective bargaining and representation

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3
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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4
The Connecticut Construction Industries Association Inc

All activities conducted by the association are to enable it to:a. establish a better understanding between the members and companies in the construction and related industries.b. foster reasonable and just regulations by governments c.…

Employment
5
Laborers International Union of North America - Local 1076

The local is a nonprofit organization established to represent its members in wage and fringe benefits matters in the construction industry. the local's primary areas of jurisdiction are oakland and livingston counties.

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6
Washington State Labor Council Afl-Cio

To protect and strengthen the rights and conditions of working people and their families.

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7
International Union of Operating Engineers Local 825ABCDRRH

The work of the union, as the representative of its members, is to provide for the continuous employment of labor, to bring about stable conditions in the industry, and to establish necessary procedures for resolutions of disputes between…

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8
The Laborers Northwest Regional Organizing Coalition

The northwest regional organizing coalition (nroc) is established and exists to increase union participation in the industries in which the laborers' international union of north america (liuna!) currently represents workers. it is nroc's…

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9
Laborer's International Union of North a

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

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10
Laborers International Union of Na Sewer and Tunnel Miners Union Local 2

Secure fair compensation and working conditions for all members.

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11
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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12
Eastern Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters

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

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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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadySchool District FoundationsCommunity FoundationsImmigrant Worker SupportMilitary Veterans SupportCommunity FoundationsCommunity College Foundatio…Youth Sports ProgramsPolicy Research and Advocacy
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 22 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%3%<5yr14%13%5–10yr18%28%10–20yr18%31%20–35yr16%10%35–55yr15%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr14%12%5–10yr18%16%10–20yr18%56%20–35yr16%6%35–55yr15%10%55yr+

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 — 4% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%2/51
the rest of the field
12%
1,600/12,950

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.

04the grantee network

45 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. 45 of the 51 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
43/45
Grantees still filing
24/45
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LABORERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA POLITICAL FUND — $6,992,000 · OtherLABORERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA POLITICAL FUNDAMERICANS FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH — $2,500,000 · OtherAMERICANS FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH+25 more — $1,060,020 · Other+25 moreTHE NEW ENGLAND LABORERS APPRENTICESHIP ADVANCEMENT FUND — $1,025,000 · EmploymentTHE NEW ENGLAN…HIGH-ROAD CONSTRUCTION DEFENSE FUND — $250,000 · EmploymentHIGH-ROAD CONS…NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR FAIR CONTRACTING — $200,000 · EmploymentNATIONAL ALLIA…CONNECTICUT LABORERS' DISTRICT COUNCIL — $150,000 · EmploymentCONNECTICUT LA…+2 more — $75,000 · EmploymentEDWARD M KENNEDY INSTITUTE FOR THE UNITED STATES SENATE INC — $200,000 · Arts & CultureCAPITAL & MAIN — $95,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $10,000 · Arts & CultureGOOD JOBS FIRST — $150,000 · EducationAlways Learning Rhode Island — $30,000 · EducationIONA UNIVERSITY — $25,000 · EducationPEGGY BROWNING FUND — $20,000 · EducationKIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION — $11,000 · EducationWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · EducationTHE CONNELL F SMITH HOMER BROWN SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $10,000 · EducationUNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE — $185,000 · EnvironmentENERGY EQUIPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE ALLIANCE — $45,000 · EnvironmentThe FY Chang Foundation — $100,000 · PhilanthropyMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $60,000 · PhilanthropyGREAT PLAINS LIFE FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · PhilanthropyLABORERS' DISTRICT COUNCIL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · PhilanthropyIRISH PEACE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyLABOR COUNCIL FOR LATIN AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT — $160,000 · Civil Rights
Other$10,552,020Employment$1,700,000Arts & Culture$305,000Education$256,000Environment$230,000Philanthropy$200,000Civil Rights$160,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAMERICANS FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH — $2,500,000 over 7y, 24% of budgetTHE NEW ENGLAND LABORERS APPRENTICESHIP ADVANCEMENT FUND — $1,025,000 over 7y, 81% of budgetHIGH-ROAD CONSTRUCTION DEFENSE FUND — $250,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetEDWARD M KENNEDY INSTITUTE FOR THE UNITED STATES SENATE INC — $200,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR FAIR CONTRACTING — $200,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetUNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE — $185,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetLABOR COUNCIL FOR LATIN AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT — $160,000 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetCONNECTICUT LABORERS' DISTRICT COUNCIL — $150,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetGOOD JOBS FIRST — $150,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetThe FY Chang Foundation — $100,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetBUILDING JOBS AND OPPORTUNITY — $100,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetCAPITAL & MAIN — $95,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetAMERICAN ROAD AND TRANSPORTATION BUILDERS ASSOCIATION — $95,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNION VETERANS COUNCIL — $55,000 over 3y, 9.9% of budgetMOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOLORES C HUERTA FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR MILITARY RECRUITMENT ASSESSMENT AND VETERANS EMPLOYMENT — $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetENERGY EQUIPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE ALLIANCE — $45,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetCONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN — $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLABORERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJohn Burton Advocates for Youth — $30,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetAlways Learning Rhode Island — $30,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetNATIONAL WOMEN'S SOCCER LEAGUE PLAYERS ASSOCIATION — $25,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetUNITE HERE EDUCATION AND SUPPORT FUND — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetIONA UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON IRELAND PROGRAM FOR SERVICE & LEADERSHIP — $25,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetPEGGY BROWNING FUND — $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetGREAT PLAINS LIFE FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetAlliance to Fight for Health Care — $20,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetKIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION — $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL AMERICAN RESOURCE CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetChamber of Commerce of the USA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLABORERS' DISTRICT COUNCIL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetBELFAST-BELTWAY BOXING PROJECT — $10,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetIRISH PEACE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetTHE CONNELL F SMITH HOMER BROWN SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetUNITED STATES CAPITOL HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEmerald Cities Collaborative Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOPERATION NO PERSONS LEFT BEHIND OUTDOORS — $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budget
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 o…International Union o…International Brother…International Union o…International Brother…American Federation o…Greater Washington Co…Unite HereUnited Association of…International Assn of…Great Lakes Region Or…Tides Foundation
International Union of Bricklayers & Allied CraftworkersDC26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: International Union of Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers · International Union of Painters and Allied Trades · International Brotherhood of Teamsters · International Union of Elevator Constructors · International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers · American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Unite Here · United Association of Journeymen & Apprentices of the Plumbing & Pipe · International Assn of Bridge Structural Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers · Great Lakes Region Organizing Committee · Tides Foundation

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 North America 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 · 30%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get 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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 51 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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