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Local Union 159 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers

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$100k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
3
Itemized grants FY2025
5
Organizations funded FY2024
80%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$58k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 5
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$10M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 80% of the organizations Local Union 159 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers funded were first-time grantees, receiving 58% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’24
Recreation & SportsHousing & ShelterPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving3$58k0%
FY20245$59k80%
FY20221$15k0%
FY20213$58kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Employment$60kPublic Benefit$42kEducation$32kCivil Rights$25kRecreation & Sports$22kHousing & Shelter$8k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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 FoundationWA1.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Local Union 159 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers

How much does Local Union 159 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers give?
Local Union 159 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers reported 3 itemized grants totaling $57,500, out of $100,152 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 5 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Local Union 159 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Employment (32%), Public Benefit (22%), Education (17%).
Who are Local Union 159 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers ($70k), Ibew PAC Education Fund ($42k), Madison Public Schools Foundation Inc ($32k).
Does Local Union 159 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 80% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Local Union 159 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Local Union 159 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers based?
Local Union 159 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers is based in WI.

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 7 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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