New York · Public charity
Local Union 1556
Collective bargaining and representation for their members
- $88k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $55k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $9,150
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $16,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 6
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.3M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Local Union 1556 funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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 | 6 | $55k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $46k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $48k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $22k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $18k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $13k | 50% |
| FY2017 | 3 | $20k | n/a |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Employment$56kEducation$51kHuman Services$33kRecreation & Sports$22kMembership Benefit$19kPhilanthropy$15kArts & Culture$14kPublic Safety & Disaster$6kOther$0
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York City District Council of Carpenters Charity Fund | $32,500 | 2 | 4% |
| Local Union 1556 Scholarship Fund | $28,100 | 3 | 17% |
| American Federation of Labor & Ind Building & Construction Afl-Cio Nas | $27,786 | 4 | 1% |
| Ny Helmets to Hardhats Inc | $23,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The General Contractors Association of Ny Inc | $18,895 | 3 | 0% |
| Eastern Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters Scholarship Fd a Nj Np Cor | $17,750 | 3 | 2% |
| Irish Echo Newspaper | $14,350 | 1 | n/a |
| Sporting Clays for Charity Inc | $12,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Special Olympics New York Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Healing Emergency Aid Response Team 911 | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 12 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York City District Council of Carpenters Charity Fund | $32,500 | 2 | 4% |
| Local Union 1556 Scholarship Fund | $28,100 | 3 | 17% |
| American Federation of Labor & Ind Building & Construction Afl-Cio Nas | $27,786 | 4 | 1% |
| Ny Helmets to Hardhats Inc | $23,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The General Contractors Association of Ny Inc | $18,895 | 3 | 0% |
| Eastern Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters Scholarship Fd a Nj Np Cor | $17,750 | 3 | 2% |
| Irish Echo Newspaper | $14,350 | 1 | n/a |
| Sporting Clays for Charity Inc | $12,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Special Olympics New York Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Healing Emergency Aid Response Team 911 | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Carpenters' Local 157 Scholarship Fund | $5,150 | 1 | n/a |
| Nontraditional Employment for Women | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($20k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Local Union 1556 supplied at peak.
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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 9.
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.
New York City & Vicinity District Council UbcjaNY17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: New York City & Vicinity District Council Ubcja · Plumbers Local Union No 1
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.
About Local Union 1556
- How much does Local Union 1556 give?
- Local Union 1556 reported 6 itemized grants totaling $54,670, out of $87,560 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 6 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Local Union 1556 fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Employment (25%), Education (23%), Human Services (15%).
- Who are Local Union 1556's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: New York City District Council of Carpenters Charity Fund ($33k), Local Union 1556 Scholarship Fund ($28k), American Federation of Labor & Ind Building & Construction Afl-Cio Nas ($28k).
- Does Local Union 1556 fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Local Union 1556?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include New York City & Vicinity District Council Ubcja, Plumbers Local Union No 1.
- Where is Local Union 1556 based?
- Local Union 1556 is based in NY.
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