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Laborers International Union of North America - District Council of Mn and Nd

To provide technical assistance, organizing and contract negotiation services to local unions.

$705k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$300k
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: 67% of LABORERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA - DISTRICT COUNCIL OF MN AND ND’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.

02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 13 grants below total $649,427 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $705,453 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $56,026 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 · $8k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $182k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $160k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$21,075
Median grant
2
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WE ALL DO BETTER PAC$300,000
NORTH STAR POLICY ACTION$100,000
MN LABORERS-EMPLOYERS COOPERATION & EDUCATION TRUST FUND$60,000
WORKING AMERICA$33,000
MINNEAPOLIS REGIONAL LABOR FEDERATION$32,500
CITY EMPLOYEES LOCAL 363$25,000
MINNESOTA BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION TRADES COUNCIL$21,075
MINNESOTA EXPLORATION ASSOCIATION$15,000
CTUL$15,000
TERENCE J O'SULLIVAN LIUNA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$15,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES UPPER MIDWEST$12,852
MINNESOTA CONCRETE & MASONRY$12,500
MINNESOTA AFL-CIO$7,500
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MN LABORERS-EMPLOYERS COOPERATION & EDUCATION TRUST FUND: $33k → 6%SOUTHEASET MINNESOTA LABOR COUNCIL: $20k → 9%MN VICTORY PAC: $100k → 11%COM FOR STRONGER RURAL COMMUNITIES: $25k → 11%NORTH STAR POLICY ACTION: $100k → 14%HOUSE MAJORITY PAC: $50k → 14%GREAT LAKES REGION ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: $50k → 14%ALLIANCE FOR A BETTER NORTH DAKOTA: $75k → 10%AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR & CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGS: $33k → 11%MINNESOTA BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION TRADES COUNCIL: $59k → 14%MINNESOTA EXPLORATION ASSOCIATION: $15k → 15%HOUSE MAJORITY PAC: $25k → 14%GROC: $13k → 14%DEMOCRATIC-NPL OF NORTH DAKOTA: $25k → 10%MPLS REG LABOR FEDERATION AFL-CIO: $33k → 11%MN STATE BUILDING TRADES COUNCIL: $50k → 14%WORKING AMERICA: $135k → 14%ALLIANCE FOR A BETTER NORTH DAKOTA: $25k → 10%MINNEAPOLIS REGIONAL LABOR FEDERATION: $33k → 11%MINNESOTA STATE BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION TRADES COUNCIL: $48k → 14%WORKING AMERICA: $50k → 14%CITY EMPLOYEES LOCAL 363: $25k → 11%MINNESOTA BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION TRADES COUNCIL: $21k → 14%WORKING AMERICA: $33k → 14%MPLS REGIONAL LABOR FED: $20k → 11%WORKING AMERICA: $25k → 14%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES UPPER MIDWEST: $14k → 11%TERENCE J O'SULLIVAN LIUNA CHARITABLE: $18k → 14%LABORERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $17k → 14%ELEVATE MINNESOTA: $203k → 11%NORTH STAR POLICY INSTITUTE: $50k → 14%TERENCE J O'SULLIVAN LIUNA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%NORTH STAR POLICY INSTITUTE: $50k → 14%CTUL: $30k → 11%NORTH STAR POLICY INSTITUTE: $50k → 14%CTUL: $25k → 11%WE ALL DO BETTER PAC: $300k → 14%CTUL: $15k → 11%MINNESOTA AFL-CIO: $25k → 14%ONE MINNESOTA INAUGURAL COMMITTEE: $50k → 11%ALLIANCE FOR A BETTER MINNESOTA: $300k → 14%CTUL: $15k → 11%PROGRESS IN MOTION: $18k → 14%LABORERS' LOCAL 563: $19k → 11%MINNESOTA VOICE: $200k → 14%WIN MINNESOTA: $125k → 14%MN LABORERS-EMPLOYERS COOPERATION & EDUCATION TRUST FUND: $60k → 14%MN LECET: $24k → 14%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.

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.

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.

41%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 13 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 +9% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
21

Total granted

$1.2M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
-4%

Still filing today

77%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $440k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EmploymentPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther

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

  • WA
    WORKING AMERICA
    4× · 2018–2024 · $243k · revenue +364%
  • MR
    Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation
    3× · 2020–2024 · $98k · revenue +9%
  • ML
    MINNESOTA LABORERS-EMPLOYERS COOPERATION & EDUCATION TRUST FUND
    2× · 2021–2024 · $93k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • AF
    Alliance for a Better Minnesota
    one grant, 2022 · $300k · revenue -51%
  • EM
    Elevate Minnesota
    one grant, 2017 · $203k
  • MV
    Minnesota Voice
    one grant, 2018 · $200k · revenue -41%

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
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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2
Laborers International Union of North America Local #165

Operation of local union.

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3
Laborers International Union of North America Local 152

Labor union

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4
Laborers International Union of State of Mi

Collective bargaining and representation

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5
Laborers Intl Union of North America Local 327 Local Union

Membership organization representing approximately 300 union members for the purpose of collective bargaining.

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6
Massachusetts and Northern New England Laborers District Council

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

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7
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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8
Laborers International Union of North America Local Union 44

Provide benefits of union membership

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9
Laborers' International Union of North America Laborers' Local #43

Promote and protect the interests of the members of the local

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10
Laborers International Union of Na Great Plains Laborers' District Council

Provide assistance to member locals with all union related activities.

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11
Laborers Afl-Cio Local Union 362

Labor union

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12
International Union of Operating Engineers Local 70

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

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minnesota State Building & Construction Trades Council and the most unlike its peers is North Star Policy Institute. 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

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 38 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)
23/26
Grantees still filing
11/26
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WE ALL DO BETTER PAC — $300,000 · OtherWE ALL DO BETTER PACWORKING AMERICA — $243,000 · OtherWORKING AMERICAElevate Minnesota — $202,941 · OtherElevate MinnesotaMINNESOTA STATE BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION TRADES COUNCIL — $189,110 · OtherMINNESOTA STATE BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION TRADES COUNCILNORTH STAR POLICY INSTITUTE — $150,000 · OtherNORTH STAR POLICY INSTITUTEALLIANCE FOR A BETTER NORTH DAKOTA — $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $100,000 · OtherNORTH STAR POLICY ACTION — $100,000 · OtherMinneapolis Regional Labor Federation — $97,500 · OtherTHE MINNESOTA CONCRETE & MASONRY CONTRACTORS ASSOC — $75,000 · OtherTERENCE J O'SULLIVAN LIUNA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $71,693 · Other+16 more — $362,176 · Other+16 moreMinnesota Voice — $200,000 · Public BenefitMinnesota Vo…WIN MINNESOTA — $125,000 · Public BenefitWIN MINNESOT…Alliance for a Better Minnesota — $300,000 · Community ImprovementAlliance fo…MINNESOTA LABORERS-EMPLOYERS COOPERATION & EDUCATION TRUST FUND — $92,500 · EmploymentMINNESOTA…CENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA — $85,000 · EmploymentCENTRO DE…GREAT LAKES REGION ORGANIZING COMMITTEE — $50,000 · EmploymentGREAT LAK…AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR & CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS — $20,000 · EmploymentAMERICAN …LEADERSHIP MATTERS MN — $50,000 · EducationRonald McDonald House Charities - Upper Midwest — $35,160 · HealthLABORERS' DISTRICT COUNCIL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · PhilanthropyEAST SIDE FREEDOM LIBRARY — $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,991,420Public Benefit$325,000Community Improvement$300,000Employment$247,500Education$50,000Health$35,160Philanthropy$10,000Arts & Culture$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAlliance for a Better Minnesota — $300,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetWORKING AMERICA — $243,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetElevate Minnesota — $202,941 over 1y, 18% of budgetMinnesota Voice — $200,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetMINNESOTA STATE BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION TRADES COUNCIL — $189,110 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetNORTH STAR POLICY INSTITUTE — $150,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetWIN MINNESOTA — $125,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetALLIANCE FOR A BETTER NORTH DAKOTA — $100,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetNORTH STAR POLICY ACTION — $100,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetMinneapolis Regional Labor Federation — $97,500 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetMINNESOTA LABORERS-EMPLOYERS COOPERATION & EDUCATION TRUST FUND — $92,500 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetCENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA — $85,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetTHE MINNESOTA CONCRETE & MASONRY CONTRACTORS ASSOC — $75,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetTERENCE J O'SULLIVAN LIUNA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $71,693 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetLEADERSHIP MATTERS MN — $50,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetGREAT LAKES REGION ORGANIZING COMMITTEE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities - Upper Midwest — $35,160 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMINNESOTA AFL-CIO — $32,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCity Employees Local 363 — $25,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR & CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS — $20,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetLABORERS' INT'L UNION LOCAL 563 — $18,750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMinnesota Exploration Association — $15,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetNORTH EAST AREA LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIO — $12,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetWEST AREA LABOR COUNCIL AFL CIO — $10,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetLABORERS' DISTRICT COUNCIL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% 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.

Education MinnesotaWin MinnesotaSaint Paul & Minnesot…The Minneapolis Found…Mightycause Charitabl…
Education MinnesotaMN15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Education Minnesota · Win Minnesota · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable 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 - District Council of Mn and Nd 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 38 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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