· Public charity
Oregon & Southern Idaho District Council of Laborers - Liuna
To unify all of the economic and other forces of the affiliated local unions in its area, to promote unity of action in dealing with employers, to foster harmony and united action between affiliated local unions, to organize the unorganized and to promote compliance with the constitution of the international union.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 76% of OREGON & SOUTHERN IDAHO DISTRICT COUNCIL OF LABORERS - LIUNA’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $38,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $297,649 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $259,149 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
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $32k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Laborers Charitable Fund | $12,000 |
| CHILDREN'S CANCER ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| W Vernie Reed Memorial Fund | $10,000 |
| BULL SESSION charity Golf | $6,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 89% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- OLOREGON LABORERS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE2× · 2020–2021 · $145k
- LHLABORERS' HEALTH AND SAFETY FUND OF NORTH AMERICA4× · 2021–2024 · $42k · revenue +22%
- WVW Vernie Reed Memorial Fund4× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- OAOregon and Southern Idaho Laborers - Employers Training Trust Fundone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -5%
- LULABORERS UNION LOCAL 155graduatedone grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +100%
- TLTHE LABORERS NORTHWEST REGIONAL ORGANIZING COALITIONone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +5%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
A fraternal labor organization whose purpose is to promote employment of members in a safe work environment and ensurefair labor practices.
Labor union
Promote and protect the interests of the members of the local
Represents its members when dealing with the state of Delaware and other employment related matters.
Organize workers for advancement
Membership organization representing approximately 300 union members for the purpose of collective bargaining.
Operation of local union.
To improve working conditions and living standards of members through collective bargaining, education, training, and employee benefits.
Provide benefits of union membership
Collective bargaining and representation
Secure fair compensation and working conditions for all members.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Laborers Northwest Regional Organizing Coalition and the most unlike its peers is Bull Session Charity Golf Tournament. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 9 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Oregon and Southern Idaho Laborers - Employers Training Trust Fund ↗
- Who funds LABORERS' HEALTH AND SAFETY FUND OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds W Vernie Reed Memorial Fund ↗
- Who funds Children's Cancer Association ↗
- Who funds BULL SESSION CHARITY GOLF TOURNAMENT ↗
- Who funds LABORERS UNION LOCAL 155 ↗
- Who funds THE LABORERS NORTHWEST REGIONAL ORGANIZING COALITION ↗
- Who funds OREGON SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Oregon and Southern Idaho Laborers - Employers Cooperation & Education Trust
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Oregon & Southern Idaho District Council of Laborers - Liuna 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Oregon Solar Energy Industries Association — 32% of income from government
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.
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