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Local Union 1556

Collective bargaining and representation for their members

$88k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$16k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Employment$56kEducation$51kHuman Services$33kRecreation & Sports$22kMembership Benefit$19kPhilanthropy$15kArts & Culture$14kPublic Safety & Disaster$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $54,670, the rows itemized in this filing. The $87,560 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $32,890 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 $10k4 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $27k
$9,150
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW YORK CITY DISTRICT COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS CHARITY FUND$16,000
LOCAL 1556 SCHOLARSHIP FUND$11,000
NASSAU & SUFFOLK BLDG TRADES$9,150
GENERAL CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION$7,370
EASTERN ATLANTIC STATES REGIONAL COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS$6,000
LOCAL 157 SCHOLARSHIP FUND$5,150
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:

Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NEW YORK CITY DISTRICT COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS CHARITY FUND: $17k → 17%NEW YORK CITY DISTRICT COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS CHARITY FUND: $16k → 17%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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$175k · 8 repeat orgs$46k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 5 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

8
5

Total granted

$175k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+58%

Still filing today

88%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyPublic BenefitEmploymentOther
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

  • LU
    LOCAL UNION 1556 SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    3× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +27%
  • NH
    NY HELMETS TO HARDHATS INC
    4× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue +17%
  • TG
    THE GENERAL CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION OF NY INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $19k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • IE
    IRISH ECHO NEWSPAPER
    one grant, 2024 · $14k
  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +16%
  • HE
    Healing Emergency Aid Response Team 911graduated
    one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +114%
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 & Cong of Industrial Orgs Nyc Bldg % Const

Liason for organized labor in the new york city area.

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2
New York State Building & Construction Trades Council Afl-Cio

Liason for organized labor.

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3
Upstate New York Construction Industry Research & Service Tr Fund

To assist workers and employers in solving problems of mutual concern not susceptible to resolution within the collective bargaining process, to improve the employment opportunities for employees, to expand the market for the construction…

Employment
4
Eastern Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters

Labor union maintaining and improving the benefit and working conditions of members engaged in the carpentry trade.

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5
North Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters

Promote union construction and represent the interests of our members

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6
Assoc of Wall-Ceiling & Carp Ind Inc

The association of wall ceiling and carpentry industries of new york, inc. is a trade association serving its members who are carpentry contractors specializing in interior systems construction and are signatory to one or more of the ubc…

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7
Long Island Contractors Association Inc

To make membership in the association a reasonable assurance to the public of the skill, integrity and responsibility of its members.

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8
Eastern Contractors Association Inc

To promote the interests of the construction industry.

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9
New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health Inc

The New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH) is a membership organization of workers, unions, community-based organizations, workers' rights activists, and health and safety professionals. NYCOSH uses training,…

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10
Building Skills Ny

See Schedule OProviding manpower training and related assistance and supportive services to unemployed and underemployed persons, particularly those from economically disadvantaged areas of the City and State of New York, including…

Education
11
North Atlantic States Carpenters Training Fund

The purpose of the plan is to provide training, skill improvement and safety education to eligible participants.

Employment
12
Suffolk County Association of Municipal Employees Inc

The organization safeguards its members by negotiating and enforcing collective bargaining agreements that ensure reasonable compensation, job protection, and advocacy for a safe and healthy workplace to best serve suffolk county. the…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ny Helmets to Hardhats Inc; the most unlike its peers is Nontraditional Employment for Women. 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

11 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. 11 of the 14 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)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR & IND BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION AFL-CIO NAS: $27,786 · OtherAMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR & IND BUILDING & …THE GENERAL CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION OF NY INC: $18,895 · OtherTHE GENERAL CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION OF NY INCNYCDCC CHARITY FUND: $15,000 · OtherNYCDCC CHARITY FUNDIRISH ECHO NEWSPAPER: $14,350 · OtherIRISH ECHO NEWSPAPERSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC: $10,000 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INCCIVIL COALITION OF BUILDING TRAD: $5,000 · OtherCIVIL COALITION OF BUILDING TRADLOCAL UNION 1556 SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $28,100 · EducationLOCAL UNION 1556 SCHOLARSH…EASTERN ATLANTIC STATES REGIONAL COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS SCHOLARSHIP FD A NJ NP COR: $17,750 · EducationEASTERN ATLANTIC STATES RE…CARPENTERS' LOCAL 157 SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $5,150 · EducationCARPENTERS' LOCAL 157 SCHO…NEW YORK CITY DISTRICT COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS CHARITY FUND: $32,500 · Human ServicesNEW YORK CITY DI…NY HELMETS TO HARDHATS INC: $23,000 · Public BenefitNY HELMETS …SPORTING CLAYS FOR CHARITY INC: $12,000 · Community ImprovementHealing Emergency Aid Response Team 911: $6,000 · PhilanthropyNONTRADITIONAL EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMEN: $5,000 · Employment
Other$91,031Education$51,000Human Services$32,500Public Benefit$23,000Community Improvement$12,000Philanthropy$6,000Employment$5,000

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 budgetNEW YORK CITY DISTRICT COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS CHARITY FUND: $32,500 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetLOCAL UNION 1556 SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $28,100 over 3y, 17% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR & IND BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION AFL-CIO NAS: $27,786 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetNY HELMETS TO HARDHATS INC: $23,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTHE GENERAL CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION OF NY INC: $18,895 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEASTERN ATLANTIC STATES REGIONAL COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS SCHOLARSHIP FD A NJ NP COR: $17,750 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetSPORTING CLAYS FOR CHARITY INC: $12,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNONTRADITIONAL EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMEN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

New York City & Vicin…Plumbers Local Union …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Local Union 1556 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Local Union 1556. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 14 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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