Skip to content
Oregon and Southern Idaho Laborers - Employers Cooperation & Education Trust at a glance

· Public charity

Oregon and Southern Idaho Laborers - Employers Cooperation & Education Trust

To improve communications and engender cooperation and harmonious relations between and among representatives of labor and management in the industry.

$551k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$276k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Employment$1.2MPublic Benefit$497kRecreation & Sports$164kEnvironment$140kArts & Culture$53kEducation$45kYouth Development$25kPhilanthropy$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $507,021, the rows itemized in this filing. The $551,409 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $44,388 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $160k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $276k
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$821k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Oregon & Southern Idaho District Council of Labore$276,381
Winterhawks Sports Group$50,000
LABORERS LOCAL 737$40,715
Northwest Regional Organizing Coalition$25,000
KOHU & The Q$21,500
W Vernie Reed Scholarship Fund$15,000
Terence J O'Sullivan LIUNA Charitable$15,000
Union Sportsmen's Alliance$12,750
Labor's Community Service Agency$10,000
Portland YouthBuilders$10,000
Paddy's Bar & Grill$10,000
Human Rights Campaign$8,000
OREGON & SOUTHERN IDAHO LABORERS-EMPLOYERS TRAININ$7,475
Portland Workforce Alliance$5,200
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Terence J O'Sullivan LIUNA Charitable: $15k → 14%BULL SESSION CHARITY GOLF TOURNAMENT: $6k → 8%YES FOR PARKS AND NATURE: $15k → 8%KOHU & The Q: $22k → 12%Portland YouthBuilders: $10k → 12%Union Sportsmen's Alliance: $13k → 10%Northwest Regional Organizing Coalition: $25k → 9%PARTNERS OF ENERGY PROGRESS: $50k → 9%Human Rights Campaign: $8k → 14%THE WALLS & CEILINGS INDUSTRY PROMOTION FUND OF OREGON & SW WASHINGTON: $25k → 8%Portland YouthBuilders: $10k → 12%Union Sportsmen's Alliance: $6k → 10%W Vernie Reed Scholarship Fund: $15k → 9%Partnership for Energy Progress: $25k → 9%Terence J O'Sullivan LIUNA Charitable: $10k → 14%PBDG FOUNDATION: $20k → 12%W Vernie Reed Scholarship Fund: $15k → 9%PARTNERS FOR ENERGY PROGRESS: $25k → 9%PORTLAND YOUTHBUILDERS: $8k → 12%PARTNERS OF ENERGY PROGRESS: $25k → 9%OREGON TRADESWOMEN: $24k → 12%Oregon Tradeswomen: $10k → 12%COMMUNITY PULSE ASSOCIATION: $8k → 12%Constructing Hope: $15k → 12%Constructing Hope: $10k → 12%MASONRY INSTITUTE OF OREGON: $21k → 12%Labor's Community Service Agency: $20k → 12%Labor's Community Service Agency: $10k → 12%Paddy's Bar & Grill: $10k → 12%METROPOLITAN ALLIANCE FOR WORKFORCE EQUITY: $25k → 12%Paddy's Bar & Grill: $10k → 12%Oregon & Southern Idaho District Council of Labore: $286k → 12%Oregon & Southern Idaho District Council of Labore: $276k → 12%OREGON & SOUTHERN IDAHO DISTRICT COUNCIL OF LABORE: $212k → 12%OREGON & SOUTHERN IDAHO DISTRICT COUNCIL OF LABORERS: $41k → 12%LABORERS LOCAL 737: $41k → 12%OREGON & SOUTHERN IDAHO LABORERS - EMPLOYERS TRAINING TRUST: $33k → 12%OREGON & SOUTHERN IDAHO DISTRICT COUNCIL OF LABORERS: $14k → 12%Winterhawks Sports Group: $50k → 12%Winterhawks Sports Group: $40k → 12%OREGON AND SOUTHERN IDAHO LABORERS - EMPLOYERS TRA: $9k → 12%OREGON & SOUTHERN IDAHO LABORERS-EMPLOYERS TRAININ: $7k → 12%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.
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 13 repeat orgs$525k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against -5% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
8

Total granted

$1.7M
$149k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
-5%

Still filing today

77%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $377k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationEnvironmentEmploymentCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitOther
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

  • OA
    Oregon and Southern Idaho Laborers - Employers Training Trust Fund
    6× · 2017–2024 · $640k · revenue +23%
  • OT
    Oregon Tradeswomen Inc
    2× · 2020–2023 · $34k · revenue +87%
  • Portland YouthBuilders
    4× · 2019–2024 · $33k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • PF
    PORTLANDERS FOR PARKS
    one grant, 2020 · $35k
  • MA
    Metropolitan Alliance for Workforce Equity
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -99% · 26% of their budget
  • TW
    THE WALLS & CEILINGS INDUSTRY PROMOTION FUND OF OREGON & SW WASH
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -5%
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
The Laborers Pacific Southwest Regional Organizing Coalition

to organize workers in the laborers international union of north America, afl-cio pacific southwest region through a coordinated program to maintain and improve employment opportunities for affiliated local union members and to recruit new…

Employment
2
Laborers International Union of North America Local 225

Organize workers for advancement

Employment
3
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.

—
4
Construction and Public Employees Liuna Local #177

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

—
5
Laborers' International Union of North America Laborers' Local #43

Promote and protect the interests of the members of the local

—
6
Laborers International Union of North America

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

—
7
Laborers Intl Union of North America Local 327 Local Union

Membership organization representing approximately 300 union members for the purpose of collective bargaining.

—
8
Nw Laborers United

To hold title to property, collecting income therefrom, and turning over the entire amount thereof, less expenses, to laborers international union of north america local union no. 242.

Community Improvement
9
Eastern Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters

Labor union maintaining and improving the benefit and working conditions of members engaged in the carpentry trade.

—
10
The Connecticut Construction Industries Association Inc

All activities conducted by the association are to enable it to:a. establish a better understanding between the members and companies in the construction and related industries.b. foster reasonable and just regulations by governments c.…

Employment
11
Laborers International Union of North America Local #165

Operation of local union.

—
12
Construction Employers Association of North Central Wv Inc

Negotiation between employers & unions.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oregon & Southern Idaho District Council of Laborers - Liuna; 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.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 27 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
11/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Oregon & Southern Idaho District Council of Labore: $553,145 · OtherOregon & Southern Idaho District Council of LaboreOREGON & SOUTHERN IDAHO DISTRICT COUNCIL OF LABORERS - LIUNA: $276,381 · OtherOREGON & SOUTHERN IDAHO DISTRICT COUNCIL OF LABORERS - LIUNAWinterhawks Sports Group: $90,000 · OtherWinterhawks Sports GroupLABORERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA: $40,715 · Other+11 more: $248,775 · Other+11 moreOregon and Southern Idaho Laborers - Employers Training Trust Fund: $639,916 · EducationOregon and Southern Idaho Laborers …Constructing Hope Pre-Apprenticeship Program: $25,000 · Education+2 more: $25,200 · EducationPARTNERS FOR ENERGY PROGESS: $125,000 · EnvironmentUNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE: $18,250 · EnvironmentOregon Tradeswomen Inc: $33,500 · EmploymentLabors Community Service Agency Inc: $30,000 · EmploymentPortland YouthBuilders: $33,000 · Youth DevelopmentMetropolitan Alliance for Workforce Equity: $25,000 · Community ImprovementHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC: $8,000 · Civil RightsCOMMUNITY PULSE ASSOCIATION: $7,500 · Public Benefit
Other$1,209,016Education$690,116Environment$143,250Employment$63,500Youth Development$33,000Community Improvement$25,000Civil Rights$8,000Public Benefit$7,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOregon and Southern Idaho Laborers - Employers Training Trust Fund: $639,916 over 6y, 11% of budgetOREGON & SOUTHERN IDAHO DISTRICT COUNCIL OF LABORERS - LIUNA: $276,381 over 1y, 14% of budgetPARTNERS FOR ENERGY PROGESS: $125,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetLABORERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA: $40,715 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOregon Tradeswomen Inc: $33,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetPortland YouthBuilders: $33,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMasonry Institute of Oregon: $31,275 over 2y, 15% of budgetW Vernie Reed Memorial Fund: $30,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetLabors Community Service Agency Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetConstructing Hope Pre-Apprenticeship Program: $25,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE LABORERS NORTHWEST REGIONAL ORGANIZING COALITION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMetropolitan Alliance for Workforce Equity: $25,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetTHE WALLS & CEILINGS INDUSTRY PROMOTION FUND OF OREGON & SW WASH: $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTERENCE J O'SULLIVAN LIUNA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetPBDG Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetUNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE: $18,250 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBULL SESSION CHARITY GOLF TOURNAMENT: $6,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPortland Workforce Alliance: $5,200 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

United Association of…Oregon-Columbia Chapt…Hoover Family Foundat…The Oregon Community …OCF Joseph E Weston P…Umpqua Bank Charitabl…The Collins FoundationMeyer Memorial TrustThe Autzen FoundationMarie Lamfrom Charita…
United Association of Journeymen & 290 LocalOR13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Association of Journeymen & 290 Local · Oregon-Columbia Chapter of the Assoc General Contractors of America · Hoover Family Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Autzen Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Oregon and Southern Idaho Laborers - Employers Cooperation & Education Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Oregon and Southern Idaho Laborers - Employers Cooperation & Education Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Community Pulse Association: 58% of income from government
  • Oregon Tradeswomen Inc: 46% of income from government
  • Portland YouthBuilders: 35% of income from government
  • Pbdg Foundation: 14% of income from government
  • Portland Workforce Alliance: 8% of income from government
  • Constructing Hope Pre-Apprenticeship Program: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Oregon and Southern Idaho Laborers - Employers Cooperation & Education Trust?

Find your warmest path to Oregon and Southern Idaho Laborers - Employers Cooperation & Education Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 27 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Oregon and Southern Idaho Laborers - Employers Cooperation & Education’s filings →

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home