Illinois · Public charity
Midwest Region Organizing Committee
Aid labor unions in organizing employers and employees
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $68,819
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 13
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $14M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations Midwest Region Organizing Committee funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $344k 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 | 13 | $1.2M | 31% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $1.3M | 31% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $886k | 54% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $735k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $765k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $1.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Laborers International Union of Na Great Plains Laborers' District Council | $1,795,000 | 6 | 24% |
| Eastern Missouri Laborers' District Council | $1,255,542 | 6 | 9% |
| The Laborers Pacific Southwest Regional Organizing Coalition | $875,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Midwest Region Laborers'-Employers' Cooperation & Education Trust | $454,867 | 6 | 9% |
| Midwest Region Laborers Veterans Committee | $307,011 | 2 | 78% |
| Midwest Region Foundation for Fair Contracting Inc | $293,539 | 5 | 5% |
| Twelve Counties Southwestern Illinois La | $230,000 | 3 | 16% |
| Downstate Illinios Laborers District Cou | $140,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Laborers' International Union of North America Local 561 | $108,542 | 1 | 6% |
| Laborers International Union of North America Local Union 44 | $100,000 | 2 | 27% |
Show all 25 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Midwest Region Organizing Committee supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Compare Midwest Region Organizing Committee with peer funders
About Midwest Region Organizing Committee
- How much does Midwest Region Organizing Committee give?
- Midwest Region Organizing Committee reported 14 grants totaling $1,259,002 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 13 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Midwest Region Organizing Committee fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Employment (81%), Community Improvement (10%), Public Benefit (6%).
- Who are Midwest Region Organizing Committee's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Laborers International Union of Na Great Plains Laborers' District Council ($1.8M), Eastern Missouri Laborers' District Council ($1.3M), The Laborers Pacific Southwest Regional Organizing Coalition ($875k).
- Does Midwest Region Organizing Committee fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Where is Midwest Region Organizing Committee based?
- Midwest Region Organizing Committee is based in IL.
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