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Laborers International Union of North America Local No 261

The local union engages in collective bargaining, grievance representation and benefits administration on behalf of its membership.

$143k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$165kEmployment$54kRecreation & Sports$38kMembership Benefit$36kCivil Rights$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $32,700, the rows itemized in this filing. The $143,079 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $110,379 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 · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $23k
$23,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NO CAL LABORERS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION$23,000
SAN MATEO COUNTY CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL$9,700
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 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 58% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SAN MATEO BLDG & CONSTRUCTION TRADES: $10k → 7%A Philip Randolph InstituteSF Chapter: $13k → 10%NO CAL LABORERS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $25k → 12%Mike Quevedo Sr Scholarship Fund: $6k → 14%A PHILIP RANDOLPH INSTITUTE: $10k → 14%SAN MATEO COUNTY CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL: $10k → 7%A PHILIP RANDOLPH INSTITUTESF CHAPTER: $7k → 10%NO CAL LABORERS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $24k → 12%Mike Quevedo Sr Scholarship Fund: $6k → 14%SAN MATEO COUNTY CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL: $8k → 7%SAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE: $15k → 10%NO CAL LABORERS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $23k → 12%SAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE: $14k → 10%NO CAL LABORERS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $23k → 12%SAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE: $10k → 10%NO CAL LABORERS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $19k → 12%SF BUILDING TRADES COUNCIL: $15k → 10%NO CAL LABORERS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $16k → 12%SF LABOR COUNCIL: $12k → 10%NO CAL LABORERS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $12k → 12%SF LABOR COUNCIL: $10k → 10%NO CAL LABORERS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $12k → 12%SF Labor Council: $7k → 10%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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$278k · 6 repeat orgs$84k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
3

Total granted

$278k
$84k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%
+418%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EducationRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • NC
    Northern California Laborers Scholarship Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · $154k · revenue +80%
  • BC
    Building & Construction Trades Council San Mateo County
    3× · 2017–2019 · $29k · revenue +15%
  • SF
    San Francisco Labor Council
    3× · 2017–2022 · $29k · revenue +174%

Funded once

  • OG
    OTHER GRANTS PAID BELOW 5000
    one grant, 2022 · $59k
  • SB
    SF BLDG & CONST TRADES COUNCILgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +62%
  • AP
    A PHILIP RANDOLPH INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +418%
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 & North Bay Labor Council

The mission of the North Bay Labor Council is to improve the lives of working families and to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our State and the Nation.

—
2
Sacramento Central Labor Council

To benefit local trade unions and their members through education and promotion of union labor to the public.

—
3
California Labor Federation Afl-Cio

The primary purposes of the organization are the study of economic and social conditions; the pursuit of policies aimed at effecting a more equal distribution of wealth; and the promotion of full employment.

—
4
San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council Afl-Cio

The Labor Council offers an avenue for local unions to come together as one group.

—
5
Northern Ca Construction Workers Unity Action Corporation

To promote the use of union building trades in construction projects in the bay area.

Employment
6
American Federation of Labor & Phila Building Trades Council Afl-Cio

The objectives of the philadelphia building trades council are to enlist the voluntary cooperation and support of every eligible local union to the end that wage scales and desirable working conditions may be established and maintained in…

—
7
Contra Costa Labor Council Afl-Cio

The council is a federation of approximately 85 affiliated unions. the organizaton engages in a wide range of activities. the activities are designed to improve the lives of working families, to bring economic justice to the workplace, and…

—
8
Sacramento-Sierras Building & Construction Trades Council

The council was organized to promote the growth and development of all building and construction trades and organized labor within its jurisdiction.

—
9
The Laborers Pacific Southwest Regional Organizing Coalition

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…

Employment
10
American Federation of Labor&Congress of Industrial Orgs Napa&Solano

Labor organization

—
11
Central Coast Labor Council

To improve the lives of working families, bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our state and the nation.

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12
California Teachers Association-Ssfcta South San Francisco Classroom Teachers

Labor union

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Federation of Labor; the most unlike its peers is A Philip Randolph 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

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 9 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Northern California Laborers Scholarship Foundation: $153,500 · EducationNorthern California Laborers Scholarship FoundationSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA DISTRICT COUNCIL OF LABORERS MIKE QUEVEDO SR SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $11,000 · EducationSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA DISTRICT COUNCIL OF LABORERS MI…OTHER GRANTS PAID BELOW 5000: $59,093 · OtherOTHER GRANTS PAID BELOW 5000Building & Construction Trades Council San Mateo County: $29,100 · OtherBuilding & Construction Trades Council San Mateo …San Francisco Labor Council: $28,950 · OtherSan Francisco Labor CouncilAmerican Federation of Labor: $17,200 · OtherAmerican Federation of LaborSF BLDG & CONST TRADES COUNCIL: $15,000 · OtherSF BLDG & CONST TRADES COUNCILA PHILIP RANDOLPH INSTITUTE: $10,000 · OtherA PHILIP RANDOLPH INSTITUTESAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE: $38,000 · Recreation & SportsSAN FRANCIS…
Education$164,500Other$159,343Recreation & Sports$38,000

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 budgetNorthern California Laborers Scholarship Foundation: $153,500 over 8y, 6.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE: $38,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSan Francisco Labor Council: $28,950 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican Federation of Labor: $17,200 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSF BLDG & CONST TRADES COUNCIL: $15,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA DISTRICT COUNCIL OF LABORERS MIKE QUEVEDO SR SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $11,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetA PHILIP RANDOLPH INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Laborers International Union of North America Local No 261 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Laborers International Union of North America Local No 261. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%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, FY20–24
    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 9 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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