· 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 55% of OREGON AND SOUTHERN IDAHO LABORERS - EMPLOYERS COOPERATION & EDUCATION TRUST’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 14 grants below total $507,021 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $551,409 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $44,388 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 $10k3 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $160k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $276k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Terence J O'Sullivan LIUNA Charitable | $15,000 |
| W Vernie Reed Scholarship Fund | $15,000 |
| Union Sportsmen's Alliance | $12,750 |
| Portland YouthBuilders | $10,000 |
| Labor's Community Service Agency | $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 |
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 (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% 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 +31% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $377k 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
- OAOregon and Southern Idaho Laborers - Employers Training Trust Fund6× · 2017–2024 · $640k · revenue +23%
- OTOregon Tradeswomen Inc2× · 2020–2023 · $34k · revenue +87%
Portland YouthBuilders4× · 2019–2024 · $33k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- PFPORTLANDERS FOR PARKSone grant, 2020 · $35k
- MAMetropolitan Alliance for Workforce Equityone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -99% · 26% of their budget
- TWTHE WALLS & CEILINGS INDUSTRY PROMOTION FUND OF OREGON & SW WASHone grant, 2021 · $25k · 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.
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…
Organize workers for advancement
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.
Operation of laborers local union for the benefit of its members.
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.
Membership organization representing approximately 300 union members for the purpose of collective bargaining.
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.
Labor union maintaining and improving the benefit and working conditions of members engaged in the carpentry trade.
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.…
Operation of local union.
Negotiation between employers & unions.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oregon & Southern Idaho District Council of Laborers - Liuna 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.
20 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. 20 of the 27 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 OREGON & SOUTHERN IDAHO DISTRICT COUNCIL OF LABORERS - LIUNA ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR ENERGY PROGESS ↗
- Who funds LABORERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Oregon Tradeswomen Inc ↗
- Who funds Portland YouthBuilders ↗
- Who funds Masonry Institute of Oregon ↗
- Who funds Labors Community Service Agency Inc ↗
- Who funds W Vernie Reed Memorial Fund ↗
- Who funds Constructing Hope Pre-Apprenticeship Program ↗
- Who funds TERENCE J O'SULLIVAN LIUNA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Alliance for Workforce Equity ↗
- Who funds THE WALLS & CEILINGS INDUSTRY PROMOTION FUND OF OREGON & SW WASH ↗
- Who funds THE LABORERS NORTHWEST REGIONAL ORGANIZING COALITION ↗
- Who funds PBDG Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PULSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BULL SESSION CHARITY GOLF TOURNAMENT ↗
- Who funds Portland Workforce Alliance ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
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 and Southern Idaho Laborers - Employers Cooperation & Education Trust 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.
- 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
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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