How much does Laborers' International Union of North America give?

Laborers' International Union of North America reported 10 itemized grants totaling $735,000, out of $914,332 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 18 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.

Who are Laborers' International Union of North America's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Laborers' International Union of North America Political Fund ($7.0M), Americans for Economic Growth ($2.5M), The New England Laborers Apprenticeship Advancement Fund ($1.0M).

Does Laborers' International Union of North America fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

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Washington, D.C. · Public charity

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 FY2025(still arriving): 10
Itemized grants FY2025: 10
Organizations funded FY2024: 50%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $735k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $30,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $250,000
Organizations funded a year: 10 to 18; FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 7
Total assets, FY2025: $449M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Laborers' International Union of North America funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

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

EducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEmploymentCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentOther

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	8	$735k	50%
FY2024	10	$571k	50%
FY2023	13	$1.7M	46%
FY2022	11	$6.6M	36%
FY2021	15	$750k	33%
FY2020	18	$1.7M	56%
FY2019	17	$1.4M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Civil Rights$7.2MCommunity Improvement$2.8MEmployment$2.1MPublic Benefit$440kPhilanthropy$220kRecreation & Sports$220kEducation$131kHuman Services$85kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Laborers' International Union of North America Political Fund	$6,992,000	2	n/a
Americans for Economic Growth	$2,500,000	7	24%
The New England Laborers Apprenticeship Advancement Fund	$1,025,000	7	81%
Laborers-Employers Benefit Plan Collection Trust	$250,000	1	0%
High-Road Construction Defense Fund	$250,000	1	20%
Edward M Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate Inc	$200,000	2	5%
National Alliance for Fair Contracting	$200,000	1	27%
Union Sportsmen's Alliance	$185,000	2	3%
Labor Council for Latin American Advancement	$160,000	7	4%
Good Jobs First	$150,000	3	4%

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All grantees of Laborers' International Union of North America by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Laborers' International Union of North America Political Fund	$6,992,000	2	n/a
Americans for Economic Growth	$2,500,000	7	24%
The New England Laborers Apprenticeship Advancement Fund	$1,025,000	7	81%
Laborers-Employers Benefit Plan Collection Trust	$250,000	1	0%
High-Road Construction Defense Fund	$250,000	1	20%
Edward M Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate Inc	$200,000	2	5%
National Alliance for Fair Contracting	$200,000	1	27%
Union Sportsmen's Alliance	$185,000	2	3%
Labor Council for Latin American Advancement	$160,000	7	4%
Good Jobs First	$150,000	3	4%
Connecticut Laborers' District Council	$150,000	1	2%
Millions of Great Americans	$140,020	1	n/a
The FY Chang Foundation	$100,000	1	15%
Building Jobs and Opportunity	$100,000	1	42%
American Road and Transportation Builders Association	$95,000	4	0%
Capital & Main	$95,000	3	2%
Marine Toys for Tots Foundation	$60,000	6	0%
Union Veterans Council	$55,000	3	10%
Motion Picture and Television Fund	$50,000	1	0%
Center for Military Recruitment Assessment and Veterans Employment	$50,000	1	2%
Dolores C Huerta Foundation	$50,000	1	0%
Energy Equipment and Infrastructure Alliance	$45,000	3	4%
Connections for Abused Women and Their Children	$30,000	1	1%
John Burton Advocates for Youth	$30,000	2	1%
Laborers' International Union of North America	$30,000	1	0%
Always Learning Rhode Island	$30,000	1	10%
Pennsylvania State University	$25,000	1	n/a
Iona University	$25,000	1	0%
National Women's Soccer League Players Association	$25,000	1	7%
Ua Charitable Fund Trust	$25,000	1	n/a
Mother Jones Heritage Project	$25,000	1	n/a
Washington Ireland Program for Service & Leadership	$25,000	2	3%
Unite Here Education and Support Fund	$25,000	1	1%
Steel Valley Authority	$20,000	2	n/a
Peggy Browning Fund	$20,000	2	1%
Great Plains Life Foundation Inc	$20,000	1	7%
Alliance to Fight for Health Care	$20,000	1	3%
Kids in Need Foundation	$11,000	1	0%
Pathway Homes Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Irish Peace Foundation Inc	$10,000	1	6%
Belfast-Beltway Boxing Project	$10,000	1	44%
United States Capitol Historical Society	$10,000	1	0%
Chamber of Commerce of the USA	$10,000	1	0%
The Connell F Smith Homer Brown Scholarship Fund	$10,000	1	7%
Connect Maricopa	$10,000	1	n/a
West Virginia University Foundation Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Laborers' District Council Charitable Foundation	$10,000	1	3%
Central American Resource Center	$10,000	1	0%
Operation No Persons Left Behind Outdoors	$5,000	1	3%
Friends of Rise - Ireland Inc	$5,000	1	n/a
Emerald Cities Collaborative Inc	$5,000	1	0%

Laborers' International Union of North America supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 42 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 42.

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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.

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

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' International Union of North America

How much does Laborers' International Union of North America give?: Laborers' International Union of North America reported 10 itemized grants totaling $735,000, out of $914,332 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 18 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Laborers' International Union of North America fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (54%), Community Improvement (21%), Employment (16%).
Who are Laborers' International Union of North America's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Laborers' International Union of North America Political Fund ($7.0M), Americans for Economic Growth ($2.5M), The New England Laborers Apprenticeship Advancement Fund ($1.0M).
Does Laborers' International Union of North America fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Laborers' International Union of North America?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include International Union of Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers, International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
Where is Laborers' International Union of North America based?: Laborers' International Union of North America is based in DC.