· Public charity
Northwest Cooperation Fund
To establish and operate joint labor-management activities designed to improve labor-management relations
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $131k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $101k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LABORERS LOCAL 341 | $51,491 |
| LABORERS UNION LOCAL 872 | $50,000 |
| LABORERS LOCAL 737 | $30,000 |
| LABORERS AGC - MONTANA | $20,000 |
| Vernie Reed NW Scholarship | $20,000 |
| Northwest Delegate Fund | $20,000 |
| Laborers Local Union 292 | $18,440 |
| LABORERS UNION LOCAL 348 | $12,265 |
| LABORERS LOCAL 252 | $10,485 |
| Local Union 242 | $8,605 |
| Laborers Local Union 238 | $7,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LLLABORERS LOCAL 3416× · 2017–2025 · $298k
- OIOREGONS IDAHO DIST COUNCIL3× · 2017–2023 · $126k
- LLLIUNA LOCAL 7206× · 2018–2024 · $84k
Funded once
- CFCitizens for Better Transportationone grant, 2019 · $30k
- GRGATSBY RACING LLCone grant, 2020 · $25k
- ADALASKA DISTRICT COUNCILone grant, 2019 · $15k
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.
4 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. 4 of the 24 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Northwest Cooperation Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Northwest Cooperation Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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