Illinois · Public charity
Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council
To promote and protect the interest of the membership, to elevate the moral, intellectual and social conditions of all working men and women and to assist members in sickness and distress.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.1M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 11
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $262M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $1.1M | 75% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $471k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $1.1M | 78% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $146k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $7k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $65k | 60% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $53k | 40% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $155k | 64% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Development Now for Chicago | $1,000,000 | 1 | n/a |
| All for Justice | $700,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Strategic Victory Fund | $475,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Vote Yes for Workers Rights | $350,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Chicago Federation of Labor and Industrial Union Council | $111,900 | 3 | 1% |
| Carpenters Helping Hands Inc | $93,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Innovation Illinois Research Institute | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| National Alliance for Fair Contracting | $45,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Chicago Women in Trades | $30,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Carpenters Assistance Relief Progam | $30,000 | 1 | 4% |
Show all 37 grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($46k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 28 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Laborers' Int'L Union of North America District Council of Chicago · Chicago Federation of Labor and Industrial Union Council · Charities Aid Foundation America
How this is measured
Compare Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council with peer funders
About Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council
- How much does Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council give?
- Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council reported 8 itemized grants totaling $1,079,100, out of $1,327,318 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (34%), Crime & Legal (21%), Human Services (15%).
- Who are Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Development Now for Chicago ($1.0M), All for Justice ($700k), Strategic Victory Fund ($475k).
- Does Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Laborers' Int'L Union of North America District Council of Chicago, Chicago Federation of Labor and Industrial Union Council, Charities Aid Foundation America.
- Where is Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council based?
- Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council is based in IL.
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