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Service Employees International Illinois Council

To protect and promote the interests of the council's more than 125,000 seiu affiliate local union members in securing better working conditions and in promoting the objectives and principles endorsed by seiu.

$266k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL ILLINOIS COUNCIL’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.

02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $157k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR AFL-CIO$50,000
CHICAGO DEFENDER CHARITIES INC$50,000
CHICAGO CITY COUNCIL LATINO CAUCUS FOUNDATION$20,000
DEVELOPMENT NOW FOR CHICAGO$20,000
CHICAGO ALDERMANIC BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION$20,000
CHICAGO URBAN LEAGUE$20,000
ILLINOIS LEGISLATIVE LATINO CAUCUS FOUNDATION$20,000
ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGE RIGHTS$20,000
CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION$17,220
ILLINOIS DELIVERS$10,000
PUERTO RICAN CULTUARAL CENTER$10,000
EQUALITY ILLINOIS INSTITUTE$7,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NARAL PRO-CHOICE AMERICA: $275k → 14%FUTURE OF WORK ILLINOIS COALITION: $50k → 11%SPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS: $25k → 11%GRASSROOTS ILLINOIS ACTION: $85k → 14%THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION: $15k → 19%NATIONAL LIEUTENANT GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION: $12k → 11%CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION: $17k → 14%CLIMATE JOBS ILLINOIS EDUCATION FUND: $50k → 11%CHICAGO VOTES: $50k → 14%CLIMATE JOBS ILLINOIS INC: $25k → 11%GRASSROOTS COLLABORATIVE: $25k → 14%GRASSROOTS COLLABORATIVE: $20k → 14%GRASSROOTS COLLABORATIVE: $20k → 14%GRASSROOTS COLLABORATIVE: $10k → 14%PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF ILLINOIS: $10k → 14%CHICAGO DEFENDER CHARITIES INC: $50k → 14%CHICAGO DEFENDER CHARITIES INC: $25k → 14%CHICAGO DEFENDER CHARITIES: $10k → 14%CHICAGO DEFENDER CHARITIES: $10k → 14%THE CHICAGO DEFENDER CHARITIES INC: $10k → 14%CHICAGO URBAN LEAGUE: $10k → 14%CHICAGO ALDERMANIC BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%CHICAGO ALDERMANIC BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS: $75k → 14%WOMEN'S MARCH CHICAGO: $10k → 14%WOMEN'S MARCH CHICAGO: $10k → 14%WOMEN'S MARCH CHICAGO: $10k → 14%CHICAGO CITY COUNCIL LATINO CAUCUS FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%CHICAGO CITY COUNCIL LATINO CAUCUS FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%NATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN CAUCUS: $18k → 14%ONE ILLINOIS: $25k → 14%JOBS WITH JUSTICE: $40k → 14%DEVELOPMENT NOW FOR CHICAGO: $20k → 14%CITIZEN ACTION ILLINOIS: $91k → 14%CITIZENS ACTIONILLINOIS: $15k → 14%CITIZEN ACTIONILLINOIS: $12k → 14%ILLINOIS ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS: $11k → 14%EAT DRINK AND BE EVENTS LLC: $60k → 14%PUSH FOR EXCELLENCE: $19k → 14%ILLINOIS LEGISLATIVE LATINO CAUCUS FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGE RIGHTS: $20k → 14%ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS: $20k → 14%CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR: $58k → 14%CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR AFL-CIO: $50k → 14%CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR AFL-CIO: $25k → 14%CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR AFL-CIO: $25k → 14%CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR AFL-CIO: $25k → 14%SIERRA CLUB OF ILLINOIS CHAPTER: $25k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 15 repeat orgs$719k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
14

Total granted

$1.1M
$644k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
0%

Still filing today

87%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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
Civil RightsCommunity ImprovementEducationEmploymentYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther

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

  • CF
    CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL UNION COUNCIL
    6× · 2017–2024 · $193k · revenue +6%
  • CA
    Citizen Action Illinois
    4× · 2017–2023 · $128k · revenue +24%
  • IC
    ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS
    4× · 2018–2024 · $125k · revenue +489%

Funded once

  • RF
    REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $275k · revenue +194%
  • GI
    Grassroots Illinois Action
    one grant, 2018 · $85k · revenue -78%
  • ED
    EAT DRINK AND BE EVENTS LLC
    one grant, 2023 · $60k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Chicago United for Equity

Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.

Civil Rights
2
Citizen Action Illinois Education Fund

Public education on current public policy issues

Public Benefit
3
Illinois Coalition for Jobs Growth and Prosperity

To promote job growth and communicate important issues to the public through information campaigns.

Community Improvement
4
Latino Union of Chicago

Latino Union works to defend the rights and dignity of contingent workers, including the right to immigrate, work, live free of oppression and violence, and provide for oneself and one's family.

Human Services
5
United Way of Illinois

Strengthen United Way movement in Illinois

Philanthropy
6
Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Inc

Secure racial equity and economic opportunity for all

Crime & Legal
7
Illinois Coalition for Legal Reform

Advocate for tort reform in Illinois by communicating with public officials and staff to influence legislation and administrative action designed to create a more equitable and balanced judicial system in Illinois.

Community Improvement
8
Illinois Unidos

Champion equitable responses and recovery efforts for the Latinx community impacted by COVID-19

Community Improvement
9
Chicago Votes Action Fund

Chicago Votes is a non-profit organization building a more inclusive democracy by putting power in the hands of young Chicagoans. We're engaging and developing a new generation of leaders by opening the doors of government and politics to…

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10
Change Illinois Action Fund

Change illinois action fund is dedicated to advocating for solutions to the issues that undermine democracy and government efficiency in illinois, including restricted ballot access, uncompetitive elections, decreased citizen…

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11
Public Interest Law Initiative

PILI engages, inspires and empowers those advancing equal access to justice.

Crime & Legal
12
Change Illinois

Change illinois is dedicated to activities that promote honest and effective government, open elections, and high levels of voter participation in illinois.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Equality Illinois Institute and the most unlike its peers is Sierra Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%14%<5yr14%7%5–10yr17%18%10–20yr17%14%20–35yr15%21%35–55yr17%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%12%<5yr14%7%5–10yr17%16%10–20yr17%19%20–35yr15%23%35–55yr17%23%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
6%
2/32
the rest of the field
15%
5,107/33,323

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 34 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/32
Grantees still filing
18/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION — $275,000 · OtherREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATIONCHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL UNION COUNCIL — $192,700 · OtherCHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL UNION COUNC…AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS — $100,000 · OtherAMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIA…EAT DRINK AND BE EVENTS LLC — $60,000 · OtherEAT DRINK AND BE EVENTS LLCPUERTO RICAN CULTURAL CENTER — $36,000 · OtherWe March On Chicago — $30,000 · Other+10 more — $162,525 · Other+10 moreCitizen Action Illinois — $127,700 · Civil RightsCitizen Action IllinoisILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS — $125,000 · Civil RightsILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRA…Chicago Votes — $60,000 · Civil RightsChicago VotesIllinois Alliance for Retired Americans — $50,500 · Civil RightsIllinois Alliance for Retired …CHICAGO CITY COUNCIL LATINO CAUCUS FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Civil RightsCHICAGO CITY COUNCIL LATINO CA…CHICAGO JOBS WITH JUSTICE — $40,000 · Civil RightsCHICAGO JOBS WITH JUSTICECONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC — $17,220 · Civil RightsCITIZEN EDUCATION FUND INC — $16,500 · Civil RightsCHICAGO DEFENDER CHARITIES INC — $112,500 · Community ImprovementCHICAGO D…DEVELOPMENT NOW FOR CHICAGO — $20,000 · Community ImprovementDEVELOPME…PUSH FOR EXCELLENCE INC — $19,000 · Community ImprovementPUSH FOR …Grassroots Illinois Action — $85,000 · EmploymentCHICAGO URBAN LEAGUE — $30,000 · EmploymentGrassroots Collaborative — $75,000 · EducationILLINOIS LEGISLATIVE LATINO CAUCUS FOUNDATION — $20,000 · EducationUniversity of Illinois Foundation — $15,000 · EducationCHICAGO ALDERMANIC BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION — $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentCLIMATE JOBS ILLINOIS INC — $25,000 · Environment
Other$856,225Civil Rights$486,920Community Improvement$151,500Employment$115,000Education$110,000Youth Development$40,000Environment$25,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION — $275,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL UNION COUNCIL — $192,700 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetCitizen Action Illinois — $127,700 over 4y, 11% of budgetILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS — $125,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCHICAGO DEFENDER CHARITIES INC — $112,500 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS — $100,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetGrassroots Illinois Action — $85,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetGrassroots Collaborative — $75,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetChicago Votes — $60,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetIllinois Alliance for Retired Americans — $50,500 over 5y, 11% of budgetCHICAGO CITY COUNCIL LATINO CAUCUS FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetCHICAGO ALDERMANIC BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetPUERTO RICAN CULTURAL CENTER — $36,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO URBAN LEAGUE — $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWe March On Chicago — $30,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetSIERRA CLUB — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCLIMATE JOBS ILLINOIS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetAccess Living of Metropolitan Chicago — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDEVELOPMENT NOW FOR CHICAGO — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUSH FOR EXCELLENCE INC — $19,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC — $17,220 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCITIZEN EDUCATION FUND INC — $16,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL LIEUTENANT GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION INC — $12,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Illinois — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetILLINOIS DELIVERS — $10,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetEQUALITY ILLINOIS INSTITUTE — $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
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.

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.

The Chicago Community…Chicago Federation of…Tides FoundationService Employees' Lo…Indiana Illinois & Io…Seiu Healthcare Illin…Field Foundation of I…Polk Bros Foundation …John D and Catherine …AARPFidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Chicago Community TrustIL20.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Chicago Federation of Labor and Industrial Union Council · Tides Foundation · Service Employees' Local No 1 · Indiana Illinois & Iowa Foundation for Fair Contracting · Seiu Healthcare Illinois & Indiana · Field Foundation of Illinois · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · AARP · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Service Employees International Illinois Council 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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