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Midwest Region Organizing Committee at a glance

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Midwest Region Organizing Committee

Aid labor unions in organizing employers and employees

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$300k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Employment$3.9MCommunity Improvement$495kPublic Benefit$277kRecreation & Sports$97kArts & Culture$26k
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $125k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $542k
  • $250k+2 grants · $567k
$68,819
Median grant
5
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREAT PLAINS LABORERS DISTRICT COUNCIL$300,000
MISSOURI AND KANSAS LABORERS DISTRICT COUNCIL$266,906
LABORERS PACIFIC SOUTHWEST ROC$200,000
LABORERS LOCAL 1095$78,000
DOWNSTATE ILLINOIS LABORERS DISTRICT COUNCIL$70,000
LABORERS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL$70,000
MIDWEST REGION FOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTING$68,819
MIDWEST REGION LABORERS VETERANS COMMITTEE$54,973
MIDWEST REGION LABORERS-EMPLOYERS COOPERATION AND EDUCATION TRUST$48,097
LABORERS LOCAL 154$36,000
LABORERS LOCAL 360$25,000
MIDWEST NATIONALS WRESTLING$16,000
LABORERS HOME DEVELOPMENT$8,172
AMERICAN EXPRESS$7,111
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 72% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FRIENDS OF LABOR: $10k → 22%PACIFIC SOUTHWEST REGIONAL ORGANIZING: $150k → 14%LABORERS LOCAL 154: $36k → 11%LABORERS LOCAL 360: $25k → 19%TERENCE J O'SULLIVAN LIUNA: $40k → 14%MISSOURI AND KANSAS LABORERS DISTRICT COUNCIL: $267k → 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: $242k → 5%NORTHWEST COOPERATION FUND: $10k → 9%LABORERS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $70k → 11%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 REGION LABORERS VETERANS COMMITTEE: $55k → 11%MIDWEST NATIONALS WRESTLING: $16k → 11%GREAT PLAINS LABORERS DISTRICT COUNCIL: $300k → 14%LABORERS PACIFIC SOUTHWEST ROC: $250k → 14%MISSOURI AND KANSAS LABORERS DISTRICT COUNCIL: $214k → 5%LABORERS HOME DEVELOPMENT: $8k → 11%MIDWEST NATIONALS WRESTLING: $16k → 11%GREAT PLAINS LABORERS DISTRICT COUNCIL: $300k → 14%LABORERS PACIFIC SOUTHWEST ROC: $200k → 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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
IN
PA
CA
MO
MD
NC
DC
TX
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.7M · 14 repeat orgs$324k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
7

Total granted

$5.7M
$248k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+57%

Still filing today

79%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EmploymentPublic BenefitArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • TL
    The Laborers Pacific Southwest Regional Organizing Coalition
    5× · 2020–2025 · $875k · revenue +19%
  • MR
    MIDWEST REGION LABORERS'-EMPLOYERS' COOPERATION & EDUCATION TRUST
    6× · 2020–2025 · $455k · revenue +42%
  • MR
    MIDWEST REGION FOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTING INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $294k · revenue +79%

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

Promote and protect the interests of the members of the local

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2
Laborers International Union of North America Local #165

Operation of local union.

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3
Laborers International Union of North America Local 152

Labor union

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4
Construction and Public Employees Liuna Local #177

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

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5
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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6
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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7
Laborers International Union of State of Mi

Collective bargaining and representation

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8
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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9
Laborers International Union Local 668

To represent union membership for purposes of collective bargaining.

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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 Local No 261

The local union engages in collective bargaining, grievance representation and benefits administration on behalf of its membership.

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12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Laborers International Union of Na Great Plains Laborers' District Council; 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

21 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. 21 of the 25 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
12/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LABORERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NA GREAT PLAINS LABORERS' DISTRICT COUNCIL: $1,795,000 · OtherLABORERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NA GREAT PLAINS LABORERS' DISTRICT COUNCILEASTERN MISSOURI LABORERS' DISTRICT COUNCIL: $1,255,542 · OtherEASTERN MISSOURI LABORERS' DISTRICT COUNCILMIDWEST REGION FOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTING INC: $293,539 · OtherMIDWEST REGION FOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTING INCTwelve Counties Southwestern Illinois La: $230,000 · Other+16 more: $792,626 · Other+16 moreThe Laborers Pacific Southwest Regional Organizing Coalition: $875,000 · EmploymentThe Laborers Pacific Sout…MIDWEST REGION LABORERS'-EMPLOYERS' COOPERATION & EDUCATION TRUST: $454,867 · EmploymentMIDWEST REGION LABORERS'-…MIDWEST REGION LABORERS VETERANS COMMITTEE: $307,011 · Public BenefitLABORERS HOME DEVELOPMENT: $8,172 · Community ImprovementMCLEAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $6,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$4,366,707Employment$1,329,867Public Benefit$307,011Community Improvement$8,172Arts & Culture$6,000

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 budgetLABORERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NA GREAT PLAINS LABORERS' DISTRICT COUNCIL: $1,795,000 over 6y, 24% of budgetEASTERN MISSOURI LABORERS' DISTRICT COUNCIL: $1,255,542 over 6y, 9.0% of budgetThe Laborers Pacific Southwest Regional Organizing Coalition: $875,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetMIDWEST REGION LABORERS'-EMPLOYERS' COOPERATION & EDUCATION TRUST: $454,867 over 6y, 8.7% of budgetMIDWEST REGION LABORERS VETERANS COMMITTEE: $307,011 over 2y, 78% of budgetMIDWEST REGION FOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTING INC: $293,539 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetTwelve Counties Southwestern Illinois La: $230,000 over 3y, 16% 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 budgetLABORERS LOCAL UNION 1095: $90,000 over 2y, 1.3% 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 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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Midwest Region Organizing Committee funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Midwest Region Organizing Committee. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's 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
    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 25 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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