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Midwest Region Organizing Committee

Aid labor unions in organizing employers and employees

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Employment$3.9MCommunity Improvement$495kPublic Benefit$277kRecreation & Sports$97kArts & Culture$26k
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 13 grants below total $1,281,824 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,333,180 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $51,356 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $130k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $350k
  • $250k+3 grants · $802k
$49,992
Median grant
8
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREAT PLAINS LABORERS DISTRICT COUNCIL$300,000
MIDWEST REGION LABORERS VETERANS COMMITTEE$252,038
LABORERS PACIFIC SOUTHWEST ROC$250,000
MISSOURI AND KANSAS LABORERS DISTRICT COUNCIL$213,508
DOWNSTATE ILLINOIS LABORERS DISTRICT COUNCIL$70,000
MIDWEST REGION FOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTING$66,411
MIDWEST REGION LABORERS-EMPLOYERS COOPERATION AND EDUCATION TRUST$49,992
TEALL PROPERTIES LLC$21,875
MIDWEST NATIONALS WRESTLING$16,000
LABORERS LOCAL 1095$12,000
NORTHWEST COOPERATION FUND$10,000
DC FRIENDS OF IRELAND$10,000
FRIENDS OF LABOR$10,000
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 73% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FRIENDS OF LABOR: $10k → 22%PACIFIC SOUTHWEST REGIONAL ORGANIZING: $150k → 14%TERENCE J O'SULLIVAN LIUNA: $40k → 14%MISSOURI AND KANSAS LABORERS DISTRICT COUNCIL: $242k → 5%LABORERS LOCAL 955: $38k → 17%LABORERS LOCAL 579: $20k → 18%LABORERS LOCAL 561: $109k → 15%NORTHWEST COOPERATION FUND: $10k → 9%MIDWEST REGION LABORERS VETERANS COMMITTEE: $252k → 11%MCLEAN COUNTY MUSEUM OF HISTORY: $6k → 11%LABORERS LOCAL 44: $50k → 12%JB INAUGURATION COMMITTEE 2023: $25k → 14%GREAT PLAINS LABORERS DISTRICT COUNCIL: $375k → 14%DC FRIENDS OF IRELAND: $10k → 11%PACIFIC SOUTHWEST REGIONAL ORGANIZING: $150k → 14%MISSOURI AND KANSAS LABORERS DISTRICT COUNCIL: $214k → 5%NORTHWEST COOPERATION FUND: $10k → 9%MIDWEST NATIONALS WRESTLING: $16k → 11%LABORERS LOCAL 44: $50k → 12%GREAT PLAINS LABORERS DISTRICT COUNCIL: $300k → 14%DC FRIENDS OF IRELAND: $10k → 11%PACIFIC SOUTHWEST REGIONAL ORGANIZING: $125k → 14%MISSOURI AND KANSAS LABORERS DISTRICT COUNCIL: $214k → 5%MIDWEST NATIONALS WRESTLING: $16k → 11%GREAT PLAINS LABORERS DISTRICT COUNCIL: $300k → 14%LABORERS PACIFIC SOUTHWEST ROC: $250k → 14%MISSOURI AND KANSAS LABORERS DISTRICT COUNCIL: $178k → 5%GREAT PLAINS LABORERS DISTRICT COUNCIL: $225k → 14%MISSOURI AND KANSAS LABORERS DISTRICT COUNCIL: $141k → 5%GREAT PLAINS LABORERS DISTRICT COUNCIL: $225k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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IN
PA
CA
MO
MD
NC
DC
TX

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.2M · 11 repeat orgs$582k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
6

Total granted

$4.2M
$238k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+57%

Still filing today

73%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $344k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EmploymentPublic BenefitArts & CultureOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • TL
    The Laborers Pacific Southwest Regional Organizing Coalition
    4× · 2020–2024 · $675k · revenue +19%
  • MR
    MIDWEST REGION LABORERS'-EMPLOYERS' COOPERATION & EDUCATION TRUST
    5× · 2020–2024 · $407k · revenue +42%
  • MR
    MIDWEST REGION FOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTING INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $225k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • LI
    Laborers' International Union of North America Local 561graduated
    one grant, 2020 · $109k · revenue +93%
  • TJ
    TERENCE J O'SULLIVAN LIUNA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue -19%
  • CG
    CONSTRUCTION & GENERAL LABORER'S LOgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $38k · revenue +83%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Laborers International Union of North America Local #165

Operation of local union.

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2
Laborers' International Union of North America Laborers' Local #43

Promote and protect the interests of the members of the local

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3
Laborers International Union of North America Local 152

Labor union

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4
Laborers' Int'l Union of North America District Council of Chicago

To promote unity of action in dealing with employers and to coordinate and consolidate the activities of its various affiliated local unions so they can work in a harmonious and united way.

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5
Laborers International Union of State of Mi

Collective bargaining and representation

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6
Construction and Public Employees Liuna Local #177

Operation of laborers local union for the benefit of its members.

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7
Laborers International Union of North America - Local 1076

The local is a nonprofit organization established to represent its members in wage and fringe benefits matters in the construction industry. the local's primary areas of jurisdiction are oakland and livingston counties.

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8
Laborers International Union Local 668

To represent union membership for purposes of collective bargaining.

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9
Laborers International Union of 341 Hcl

Union hall devoted to the betterment of members compensation and working conditions, to secure recognition of workers rights to engage in collective bargaining, and to promote the development and maintenance of on-the-job safety practices…

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10
Laborers International Union of North America

Represents its members when dealing with the state of Delaware and other employment related matters.

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11
Laborers' International Union of North America

To improve working conditions and living standards of members through collective bargaining, education, training, and employee benefits.

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12
Laborers' International Union of North America Local No 5

Labor union

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Downstate Illinios Laborers District Cou and the most unlike its peers is Jb Inauguration Committee. 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

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 21 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
9/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LABORERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NA GREAT PLAINS LABORERS' DISTRICT COUNCIL — $1,425,000 · OtherLABORERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NA GREAT PLAINS LABORERS' DISTRICT COUNCILEASTERN MISSOURI LABORERS' DISTRICT COUNCIL — $988,636 · OtherEASTERN MISSOURI LABORERS' DISTRICT COUNCILTwelve Counties Southwestern Illinois La — $230,000 · OtherTwelve Counties Southwestern Illinois LaMIDWEST REGION FOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTING INC — $224,720 · OtherMIDWEST REGION FOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTING INC+13 more — $560,515 · Other+13 moreThe Laborers Pacific Southwest Regional Organizing Coalition — $675,000 · EmploymentThe Laborers Pacific Sout…MIDWEST REGION LABORERS'-EMPLOYERS' COOPERATION & EDUCATION TRUST — $406,770 · EmploymentMIDWEST REGION LABORERS'-…MIDWEST REGION LABORERS VETERANS COMMITTEE — $252,038 · Public BenefitMCLEAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $6,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$3,428,871Employment$1,081,770Public Benefit$252,038Arts & Culture$6,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLABORERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NA GREAT PLAINS LABORERS' DISTRICT COUNCIL — $1,425,000 over 5y, 24% of budgetEASTERN MISSOURI LABORERS' DISTRICT COUNCIL — $988,636 over 5y, 9.0% of budgetThe Laborers Pacific Southwest Regional Organizing Coalition — $675,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetMIDWEST REGION LABORERS'-EMPLOYERS' COOPERATION & EDUCATION TRUST — $406,770 over 5y, 8.7% of budgetMIDWEST REGION LABORERS VETERANS COMMITTEE — $252,038 over 1y, 78% of budgetTwelve Counties Southwestern Illinois La — $230,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetMIDWEST REGION FOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTING INC — $224,720 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetLaborers' International Union of North America Local 561 — $108,542 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetLaborers International Union of North America Local Union 44 — $100,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetTERENCE J O'SULLIVAN LIUNA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCONSTRUCTION & GENERAL LABORER'S LO — $37,973 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetNORTHWEST COOPERATION FUND — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLABORERS' LOCAL 579 — $20,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetLABORERS LOCAL UNION 1095 — $12,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLABORERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA 332 — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMCLEAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Midwest Region Organizing Committee funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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