· Public charity
Seiu Local 221
To improve the professional status, wages, hours and working conditions of members and the lives of workers and their families by addressing the social, political and economic issues affecting members communities and working families at large.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $60,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $68,530 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $8,530 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 $10k9 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN DIEGO & IMPERIAL COUNTIES LABOR COUNCIL | $15,000 |
| CESAR CHAVEZ SERVICE CLUBS | $5,000 |
| PILLARS OF THE COMMUNITY | $5,000 |
| PROGRESSIVE LABOR ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| THE HARVEY FAMILY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| LOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE | $5,000 |
| WOMEN OF COLOR ROAR MEDIA | $5,000 |
| DETOUR EMPOWERS | $5,000 |
| PENNIES FOR PROGRESS | $5,000 |
| JACKIE ROBINSON YMCA | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +99% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 7 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, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- SDSan Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council AFL-CIO5× · 2019–2024 · $93k · revenue +44%
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO3× · 2020–2022 · $30k · revenue +174%
- CCCesar Chavez Service Clubs Inc3× · 2018–2024 · $17k · revenue +99%
Funded once
- SDSan Diegans for Full Voter Participation Sponsored by SEIU Local 221 PACone grant, 2018 · $188k
- FTFLIP THE 49TH DISTRICT NEIGHBORS IN ACTIONone grant, 2018 · $152k
- SASCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRSTone grant, 2020 · $110k · revenue -100%
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 League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization, encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and…
Promote social welfare thru political policy
Assist African Americans and other underserved people in San Diego County to acheive social and economic equality through advocacy, bridge building, program services and research.
Educate and advocacy
Unite all latino americans
Provide opportunities in the electrical industry
Law enforcement agencies in today's environment find it difficult to cope with the magnitude of crime without the involved support of business, media and community. Since 1981, the San Diego County Crime Commission has built public…
Alliance is a community organization working to build a more inclusive democracy so that all people can achieve their full potential in an environment of harmony, safety, equality, and justice. Alliance develops leaders, builds coalitions,…
To promote commerce for the advancement of economic development for black owned businesses within the greater San Diego area.
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service of San Diego and the most unlike its peers is Ymca of San Diego County. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 19 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 San Diegans for Full Voter Participation Sponsored by SEIU Local 221 PAC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST ↗
- Who funds San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council AFL-CIO ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds CENTER ON POLICY INITIATIVES ↗
- Who funds Cesar Chavez Service Clubs Inc ↗
- Who funds PROGRESSIVE LABOR ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Women of Color Roar Media ↗
- Who funds Depositing Empowerment Through Outreach and Urban ↗
- Who funds Harvey Family Foundation ↗
- Who funds PILIPINO WORKERS CENTER OF SOUTHERN ↗
- Who funds PILLARS OF THE COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BLACK AMERICAN POLITICAL ASSOCIATION OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEG ↗
- Who funds NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC ↗
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: The San Diego Foundation · United Domestic Workers of America · Catalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties · The California Endowment · Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest · Alliance Healthcare Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Seiu Local 221 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.