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Seiu Local 521

The mission of SEIU LOCAL 521 is to provide our members with a voice in the workplace,in their union and in the larger community.

$862k
Granted FY2020
7
Grants FY2020
—
States reached
$261k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its 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, FY2019 to 2020.

Health$266kEmployment$241kCivil Rights$225kHuman Services$100kCrime & Legal$50k
02FY2020 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $782,427, the rows itemized in this filing. The $862,285 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $79,858 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 · FY2020

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $516k
  • $250k+1 grant · $261k
$50,000
Median grant
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States reached
$32M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SANTA CLARA RESIDENTS FOR A SAFE HEALTHY$261,300
SEIU LOCAL 521 ISSUES PAC$191,127
SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST$175,000
OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL COALITION$50,000
NO ON PROP 22$50,000
YES ON 25 END MONEY BAIL$50,000
HEALTH ACCESS CALIFORNIA$5,000
02Its field
03the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 8 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
3/6
Grantees still filing
2/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Santa Clara County Residents For A Safe Healthy Community: $261,300 · OtherSanta Clara County Residents For A Safe Healthy CommunityCHILDRENS HEALTH AND CHILD CARE INITIATIVE: $100,000 · OtherCHILDRENS HEALTH AND CHILD CARE INITIATIVEOPPORTUNITY FOR ALL COALITION: $50,000 · OtherOPPORTUNITY FOR ALL COALITIONEnd Predatory and Unfair Money Bail: $50,000 · OtherEnd Predatory and Unfair Money BailCoalition to Protect Riders and Drivers sponsored by the CA Labor Federation AFL-CIO: $50,000 · OtherCoalition to Protect Riders and Drivers sponsored by the CA Labor …+1 more: $5,000 · OtherSEIU LOCAL 521: $191,127 · EmploymentSEIU LOCAL 521SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST: $175,000 · Civil RightsSCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIE…
Other$516,300Employment$191,127Civil Rights$175,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSanta Clara County Residents For A Safe Healthy Community: $261,300 over 1y, 100% of budgetSEIU LOCAL 521: $191,127 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST: $175,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEnd Predatory and Unfair Money Bail: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCoalition to Protect Riders and Drivers sponsored by the CA Labor Federation AFL-CIO: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHEALTH ACCESS OF CALIFORNIA: $5,000 over 1y, 3.4% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Seiu Local 521 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Seiu Local 521. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
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no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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 8 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $43k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2020, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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