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· Public charity

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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Benefit$975kEmployment$767kCommunity Improvement$350kMembership Benefit$300kCivil Rights$118kSocial Science$100kPhilanthropy$82kEducation$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $649,427, the rows itemized in this filing. The $705,453 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $56,026 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
TERENCE J O'SULLIVAN LIUNA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$15,000
CTUL$15,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES UPPER MIDWEST$12,852
MINNESOTA CONCRETE & MASONRY$12,500
MINNESOTA AFL-CIO$7,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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%MINNEAPOLIS REGIONAL LABOR FEDERATION: $33k → 11%MINNESOTA BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION TRADES COUNCIL: $59k → 14%MINNESOTA EXPLORATION ASSOCIATION: $15k → 15%HOUSE MAJORITY PAC: $25k → 14%GROC: $13k → 14%ALLIANCE FOR A BETTER NORTH DAKOTA: $25k → 10%AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR & CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGS: $33k → 11%MN STATE BUILDING TRADES COUNCIL: $50k → 14%WORKING AMERICA: $135k → 14%DEMOCRATIC-NPL OF NORTH DAKOTA: $25k → 10%MPLS REG LABOR FEDERATION AFL-CIO: $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
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

41%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 13 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against -4% for those 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

+12%
-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
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • WA
    WORKING AMERICA
    4× · 2018–2024 · $243k · revenue +364%
  • MS
    MINNESOTA STATE BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION TRADES COUNCIL
    5× · 2019–2024 · $189k · revenue +13%
  • MR
    Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation
    3× · 2020–2024 · $98k · revenue +9%

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%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minnesota State Building & Construction Trades Council; 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/26
Grantees still filing
13/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Laborers International Union of North America - District Council of Mn and Nd funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Laborers International Union of North America - District Council of Mn and Nd. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 38 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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