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Service Employees International Joint Council 45

Statewide arm of the service employees' international union (seiu) in pennsylvania.

$382k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$225k
Largest
01What you fund
0174% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20202024.

Civil Rights$2.3MSocial Science$80kCommunity Improvement$25kOther$833k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$225,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$373k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PROJECT KEYSTONE$225,000
PA ALLIANCE ACTION$150,000
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 (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FREE FAIR PA: $50k → 8%PENNSYLVANIA STANDS UP: $25k → 9%PENNSYLVANIA UNITED: $100k → 11%PUT PENNSYLVANIA FIRST: $75k → 12%PROJECT KEYSTONE: $350k → 22%WORKING FAMILIES PARTY PAC: $10k → 20%FOR OUR FUTURE ACTION FUND: $25k → 14%CASA DE MARYLAND INC: $30k → 11%PENNSYLVANIA UNITED: $41k → 11%SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL: $15k → 12%PROJECT KEYSTONE: $225k → 22%SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL: $140k → 14%STRAIGHT AHEAD ORGANIZATION: $63k → 11%WE THE PEOPLE PENNSYLVANIA ACTION: $56k → 12%PENNSYLVANIA ALLIANCE ACTION: $865k → 22%SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL: $100k → 14%KEYSTONE RESEARCH CENTER: $40k → 12%PENNSYLVANIA ALLIANCE ACTION: $475k → 22%SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL: $70k → 14%PENNSYLVANIA SPOTLIGHT: $35k → 12%PA ALLIANCE ACTION: $150k → 22%KEYSTONE RESEARCH CENTER: $20k → 12%PENNSYLVANIA ALLIANCE ACTION: $75k → 22%WE THE PEOPLE ACTION: $20k → 12%COMMONWEALTH COMMUNICATIONS: $75k → 22%KEYSTONE RESEARCH CENTER: $20k → 12%COMMONWEALTH COMMUNICATIONS: $50k → 22%PENNSYLVANIANS FOR FAIR COURTS: $10k → 12%PENNSYLVANIA ALLIANCE ACTION: $25k → 22%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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.8M · 6 repeat orgs$423k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
13

Total granted

$2.8M
$423k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+10%

Still filing today

100%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsSocial ScienceCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • PA
    PA ALLIANCE ACTION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +98%
  • PK
    Project Keystone
    2× · 2022–2024 · $575k · revenue +5%
  • SE
    SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION
    3× · 2020–2023 · $310k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • PP
    PUT PENNSYLVANIA FIRST
    one grant, 2022 · $75k
  • SA
    STRAIGHT AHEAD ORGANIZATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $63k · revenue ×18
  • WT
    We The People Pennsylvania Action
    one grant, 2020 · $56k · 27% of their budget

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
Ballot Pa Action

Informed and educated the public and lawmakers about the benefits of including independent voters in Pennsylvania's primary elections.

Civil Rights
2
Keystone Democracy

Keystone Democracy's goal is to ensure that all Pennsylvania elections are implemented in a safe, secure, convenient and fair manner. We work to advance pro-democracy policies by informing elected officials, civic leaders, the media, and…

3
Lead Pa

Cultivating the next generation of progressive leaders across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

4
Pittsburgh United

Pittsburgh United, Inc. strives to advance social & economic justice in the

Community Improvement
5
Pa Alliance Foundation

Pa alliance foundation ("paaf") is a 501(c)(3) public charity that is focused on civic engagement and democracy advancement across pennsylvania, working to expand access to the ballot through non-partisan voter education and mobilization.…

Civil Rights
6
Pennsylvania First

To invest in the activation, long-term engagement, and mobilization of

7
Ppf Pennsylvania State Association

Promote the interest and welfare of the industry by recommending legislation to protect the trade.

8
New Pennsylvania Project

The New Pennsylvania Project (NPP) is a voting rights organization with a

Civil Rights
9
Pennsylvania Forward

To advocate for progressive policies in pennsylvania

10
Pennsylvania Statewide Independent Living Council

To use our collective power and legal mandate to develop and secure public policies that ensure civil rights and expand options for all people with disabilities in all aspects of life.

Human Services
11
Pennsylvania State Education Association

We support, empower, and advocate for members, students, and public education.

12
Philadelphia Area Jobs With Justice

Building support for the rights of working people through coalitions of labor and community and through public education.

Employment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pennsylvania Stands Up Inc and the most unlike its peers is Casa Inc. 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

15 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PA ALLIANCE ACTION — $1,590,000 · Civil RightsPA ALLIANCE ACTIONProject Keystone — $575,000 · Civil RightsProject KeystonePennsylvania United — $140,800 · Civil RightsPennsylvania UnitedSERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION — $310,000 · OtherSERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATION…COMMONWEALTH COMMUNICATIONS — $125,000 · OtherCOMMONWEALTH COMMUNICATIONSPUT PENNSYLVANIA FIRST — $75,000 · OtherPUT PENNSYLVANIA FIRSTSTRAIGHT AHEAD ORGANIZATION — $62,500 · OtherSTRAIGHT AHEAD ORGANIZATIONWe The People Pennsylvania Action — $55,500 · OtherWe The People Pennsylvania Ac…Free Fair PA — $50,000 · OtherFree Fair PAPENNSYLVANIA SPOTLIGHT — $34,500 · OtherCASA INC — $30,000 · Other+6 more — $90,000 · Other+6 moreKeystone Research Center Inc — $80,000 · Social SciencePENNSYLVANIA STANDS UP INC — $25,000 · Community Improvement
Civil Rights$2,305,800Other$832,500Social Science$80,000Community Improvement$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPA ALLIANCE ACTION — $1,590,000 over 5y, 9.7% of budgetProject Keystone — $575,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetSERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION — $310,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPennsylvania United — $140,800 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetCOMMONWEALTH COMMUNICATIONS — $125,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetKeystone Research Center Inc — $80,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetWe The People Pennsylvania Action — $55,500 over 1y, 27% of budgetFree Fair PA — $50,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA SPOTLIGHT — $34,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetCASA INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOR OUR FUTURE ACTION FUND — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA STANDS UP INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION LOCAL 668 — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPENNSYLVANIANS FOR FAIR COURTS — $10,000 over 1y, 23% 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.

Sixteen Thirty FundDC19.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · Pa Alliance Action · Hopewell Fund · Commonwealth Communications · American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · PA Alliance Foundation · Strategic Victory Fund · North Fund · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · America Votes · Tides Advocacy

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 Joint Council 45 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
2021222324
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 8%
  • Casa Inc8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY2024

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.

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How do I get to Service Employees International Joint Council 45?

Find your warmest path to Service Employees International Joint Council 45 through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 19 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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