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Seiu Local 221 at a glance

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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.

$69k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Public Benefit$345kCivil Rights$128kMembership Benefit$58kHuman Services$53kEmployment$50kYouth Development$22kCrime & Legal$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $60,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $68,530 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $8,530 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 $10k9 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAN DIEGO & IMPERIAL COUNTIES LABOR COUNCIL$15,000
LOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE$5,000
PROGRESSIVE LABOR ALLIANCE$5,000
THE HARVEY FAMILY FOUNDATION$5,000
PENNIES FOR PROGRESS$5,000
CESAR CHAVEZ SERVICE CLUBS$5,000
PILLARS OF THE COMMUNITY$5,000
WOMEN OF COLOR ROAR MEDIA$5,000
DETOUR EMPOWERS$5,000
JACKIE ROBINSON YMCA$5,000
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.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CENTER ON POLICY INITIATIVES: $18k → 11%SD RAPID RESPONSE NETWORK: $10k → 11%SD RAPID RESPONSE NETWORK: $10k → 11%Jewish Family Service of San Diegeo: $10k → 11%JACKIE ROBINSON YMCA: $5k → 11%PILLARS OF THE COMMUNITY: $5k → 11%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.

22%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$150k · 4 repeat orgs$525k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +99% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
8

Total granted

$150k
$490k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+99%
0%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEmploymentCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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

  • SD
    San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council AFL-CIO
    5× · 2019–2024 · $93k · revenue +44%
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO
    3× · 2020–2022 · $30k · revenue +174%
  • CC
    Cesar Chavez Service Clubs Inc
    3× · 2018–2024 · $17k · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • SD
    San Diegans for Full Voter Participation Sponsored by SEIU Local 221 PAC
    one grant, 2018 · $188k
  • FT
    FLIP THE 49TH DISTRICT NEIGHBORS IN ACTION
    one grant, 2018 · $152k
  • SA
    SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST
    one grant, 2020 · $110k · revenue -100%
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
League of Women Voters of Los Angeles

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…

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2
California Black Power Network Action Fund

Promote social welfare thru political policy

Civil Rights
3
Urban League of San Diego County

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.

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4
Black American Political Association of California

Educate and advocacy

Civil Rights
5
Herencia Hispana San Diego

Unite all latino americans

Membership Benefit
6
Electrical Workers Minority Caucus of San Diego and Imperial Counties

Provide opportunities in the electrical industry

Employment
7
San Diego Crime Commission

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…

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8
Equality Alliance of San Diego

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,…

Civil Rights
9
County of San Diego Black Chamber of Commerce

To promote commerce for the advancement of economic development for black owned businesses within the greater San Diego area.

Community Improvement
10
San Diego Double Ten Committee
Arts & Culture
11
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

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,…

Employment
12
San Diego Coasters
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service of San Diego; 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.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/17
Grantees still filing
8/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

San Diegans for Full Voter Participation Sponsored by SEIU Local 221 PAC: $187,538 · OtherSan Diegans for Full Voter Participation Sponsored by SEIU Local 221 PACFLIP THE 49TH DISTRICT NEIGHBORS IN ACTION: $152,343 · OtherFLIP THE 49TH DISTRICT NEIGHBORS IN ACTIONSan Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council AFL-CIO: $92,500 · OtherSan Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council AFL-CIO+2 more: $12,500 · OtherSCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST: $110,000 · Civil RightsSCHOOLS AND COMMUNITI…VOICES FOR CHILDREN: $5,000 · Civil RightsBLACK AMERICAN POLITICAL ASSOCIATION OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEG: $5,000 · Civil RightsNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC: $5,000 · Civil RightsJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $30,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FA…CENTER ON POLICY INITIATIVES: $17,500 · Human ServicesCENTER ON…YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $5,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF S…PILLARS OF THE COMMUNITY: $5,000 · Human ServicesPILLARS O…Cesar Chavez Service Clubs Inc: $17,000 · Youth DevelopmentDepositing Empowerment Through Outreach and Urban: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentPROGRESSIVE LABOR ALLIANCE: $10,000 · EmploymentLOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyPILIPINO WORKERS CENTER OF SOUTHERN: $5,000 · Community ImprovementWomen of Color Roar Media: $5,000 · Public Benefit
Other$444,881Civil Rights$125,000Human Services$57,500Youth Development$22,000Employment$10,000Philanthropy$5,000Community Improvement$5,000Public Benefit$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSan Diegans for Full Voter Participation Sponsored by SEIU Local 221 PAC: $187,538 over 1y, 18% of budgetSCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST: $110,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSan Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council AFL-CIO: $92,500 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER ON POLICY INITIATIVES: $17,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCesar Chavez Service Clubs Inc: $17,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetPROGRESSIVE LABOR ALLIANCE: $10,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPILLARS OF THE COMMUNITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPILIPINO WORKERS CENTER OF SOUTHERN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHarvey Family Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDepositing Empowerment Through Outreach and Urban: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWomen of Color Roar Media: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% 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.

The San Diego Foundat…United Domestic Worke…Catalyst of San Diego…The California Endowm…Planned Parenthood of…Alliance Healthcare F…Price Philanthropies …Amazonsmile Foundation
The San Diego FoundationCA19× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Seiu Local 221 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Seiu Local 221. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    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 19 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.

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