Illinois · Public charity
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 FY2024(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2024
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 12
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.2M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations Service Employees International Illinois Council funded were first-time grantees, receiving 59% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 12 | $265k | 42% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $135k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $160k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $145k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $174k | 22% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $166k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $701k | 83% |
| FY2017 | 4 | $39k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reproductive Freedom for All Foundation | $275,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Chicago Federation of Labor and Industrial Union Council | $192,700 | 6 | 1% |
| Citizen Action Illinois | $127,700 | 4 | 11% |
| Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights | $125,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Chicago Defender Charities Inc | $112,500 | 6 | 2% |
| American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations | $100,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Grassroots Illinois Action | $85,000 | 1 | 24% |
| Grassroots Collaborative | $75,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Chicago Votes | $60,000 | 2 | 9% |
| Illinois Alliance for Retired Americans | $50,500 | 5 | 11% |
Show all 32 grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($78k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Service Employees International Illinois Council supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 28 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
Compare Service Employees International Illinois Council with peer funders
About Service Employees International Illinois Council
- How much does Service Employees International Illinois Council give?
- Service Employees International Illinois Council reported 12 grants totaling $266,243 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Service Employees International Illinois Council fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (46%), Community Improvement (11%), Public Benefit (10%).
- Who are Service Employees International Illinois Council's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Reproductive Freedom for All Foundation ($275k), Chicago Federation of Labor and Industrial Union Council ($193k), Citizen Action Illinois ($128k).
- Does Service Employees International Illinois Council fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Service Employees International Illinois Council?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Chicago Federation of Labor and Industrial Union Council, Tides Foundation.
- Where is Service Employees International Illinois Council based?
- Service Employees International Illinois Council is based in IL.
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