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Local 881 Union at a glance

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Local 881 Union

Labor union

$85k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Social Science$50kEnvironment$34kHealth$27kCivil Rights$20kEmployment$17kPublic Benefit$10kEducation$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $15,100, the rows itemized in this filing. The $85,049 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $69,949 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$41M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UFCW REGION 8 STATES COUNCIL DBA UFCW REGION 8 DISASTER RELIEF FUND$10,000
THE MICHAEL MATTERS FOUNDATION$5,100
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%UFCW REGION 8 STATES COUNCIL DBA UFCW REGION 8 DISASTER RELIEF FUND: $10k → 10%THE LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $15k → 9%UNION SPORTSMEN ALLIANCE: $10k → 10%MICHAEL MATTERS FOUNDATION: $7k → 8%ILLINOIS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $6k → 11%CITIZEN ACTION ILLINOIS: $10k → 14%UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE: $7k → 10%THE MICHAEL MATTERS FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%FUTURE WORK OF IL COALITION: $50k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION THE LABOR EDUCATION PROGRAM: $10k → 14%UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE: $7k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION - THE LABOR EDUCATION PROGRAM: $10k → 14%UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE: $6k → 10%ARISE CHICAGO: $10k → 14%UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE: $5k → 10%CITIZEN ACTION ILLINOIS: $10k → 14%CHICAGO JOBS WITH JUSTICE: $7k → 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.

47%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$86k · 4 repeat orgs$98k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against -16% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
5

Total granted

$86k
$88k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
-16%

Still filing today

100%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Civil RightsEnvironmentHealthEmploymentEducationOther
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

  • University of Illinois Foundation
    2× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +70%
  • CA
    Citizen Action Illinois
    2× · 2021–2023 · $20k · revenue +42%
  • TM
    The Michael Matters Foundation Inc
    2× · 2022–2025 · $12k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • FW
    FUTURE WORK OF IL COALITION
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • BC
    BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -28%
  • ARISE CHICAGOgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +303%
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
United Way of Illinois

Strengthen United Way movement in Illinois

Philanthropy
2
Illinois Coalition for Jobs Growth and Prosperity

To promote job growth and communicate important issues to the public through information campaigns.

Community Improvement
3
Illinois Coalition for Legal Reform

Advocate for tort reform in Illinois by communicating with public officials and staff to influence legislation and administrative action designed to create a more equitable and balanced judicial system in Illinois.

Community Improvement
4
Illinois Trial Lawyers Association

The objectives of the Association shall be to: uphold the Constitution of the United States of America and the State of Illinois; secure and protect the rights of those injured in their persons or civil rights; defend trial by jury and the…

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5
Chicago United for Equity

Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.

Civil Rights
6
The Chicago Innovation Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Citizen Action Illinois Education Fund

Public education on current public policy issues

Public Benefit
8
True Chicago
Arts & Culture
9
Chicago's Environmental Fund
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10
Change Illinois Action Fund

Change illinois action fund is dedicated to advocating for solutions to the issues that undermine democracy and government efficiency in illinois, including restricted ballot access, uncompetitive elections, decreased citizen…

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11
Chicago Board of Trade Foundation
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12
Gastro Intestinal Research Foundation Inc

The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arise Chicago; the most unlike its peers is The Michael Matters Foundation Inc. 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

9 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. 9 of the 10 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FUTURE WORK OF IL COALITION: $50,000 · OtherFUTURE WORK OF IL COALITIONUFCW REGION 8 STATES COUNCIL: $10,000 · OtherUFCW REGION 8 STATES COUNCILUNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE: $33,760 · EnvironmentUNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIAN…Illinois Conservation Foundation: $6,000 · EnvironmentIllinois Conservation Fo…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $15,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNI…The Michael Matters Foundation Inc: $12,142 · HealthThe Michael Matt…Citizen Action Illinois: $20,000 · Civil RightsCitizen Action I…CHICAGO JOBS WITH JUSTICE: $7,000 · Civil RightsCHICAGO JOBS WIT…University of Illinois Foundation: $20,000 · EducationUniversity o…ARISE CHICAGO: $10,000 · Employment
Other$60,000Environment$39,760Health$27,142Civil Rights$27,000Education$20,000Employment$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$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE: $33,760 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCitizen Action Illinois: $20,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Michael Matters Foundation Inc: $12,142 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetARISE CHICAGO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetIllinois Conservation Foundation: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile Foundation
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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 Local 881 Union funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Local 881 Union. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
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
    2report 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 10 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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