How much does Service Employees International Union give?

Service Employees International Union reported 2 itemized grants totaling $65,000, out of $75,755 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Service Employees International Union fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (32%), Employment (25%), Human Services (19%).

Who are Service Employees International Union's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Our Oregon ($2.0M), Service Employees Intl Union Local 49 ($2.0M), Defend Oregon ($1.3M).

Does Service Employees International Union fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Service Employees International Union?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seeding Justice, Northwest Health Foundation, Northwest Health Foundation Fund II.

Where is Service Employees International Union based?

Service Employees International Union is based in OR.

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Oregon · Public charity

Service Employees International Union

To improve the quality of life through worker empowerment and a progressive labor movement.

$76k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 2
Itemized grants FY2024: 14
Organizations funded FY2023: 50%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $65k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $50,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $50,000
Organizations funded a year: 4 to 14; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 1
Total assets, FY2024: $29M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Service Employees International Union funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Civil RightsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyEmploymentPublic BenefitOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	2	$65k	0%
FY2023	14	$970k	50%
FY2022	5	$1.1M	40%
FY2021	13	$920k	62%
FY2020	5	$663k	60%
FY2018	10	$3.2M	70%
FY2017	4	$150k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Benefit$2.2MEmployment$1.7MHuman Services$1.3MCivil Rights$509kCrime & Legal$500kMembership Benefit$400kHealth$135kReligion$60kOther$0

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
Our Oregon	$1,981,045	5	47%
Service Employees Intl Union Local 49	$1,950,750	5	5%
Defend Oregon	$1,336,295	1	n/a
Oregon State Council of Service Employees	$500,000	1	16%
Family Forward Action	$250,000	4	23%
Service Employees International Union	$165,000	2	0%
Community Vision Inc	$100,000	1	n/a
Family Forward Oregon	$100,000	1	7%
Causa of Oregon	$80,000	2	5%
Oregonians for Ethics	$75,000	1	n/a

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All grantees of Service Employees International Union by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Our Oregon	$1,981,045	5	47%
Service Employees Intl Union Local 49	$1,950,750	5	5%
Defend Oregon	$1,336,295	1	n/a
Oregon State Council of Service Employees	$500,000	1	16%
Family Forward Action	$250,000	4	23%
Service Employees International Union	$165,000	2	0%
Community Vision Inc	$100,000	1	n/a
Family Forward Oregon	$100,000	1	7%
Causa of Oregon	$80,000	2	5%
Oregonians for Ethics	$75,000	1	n/a
Rural Organizing Project	$75,000	2	n/a
Pcun	$60,000	3	n/a
Oregon Food Bank	$42,500	3	0%
Apano	$40,000	2	18%
Northwest Health Foundation	$35,000	2	1%
Center for Intercultural Organizing	$30,000	2	0%
Washington County Ignite	$30,000	2	n/a
Unidos Bridging Community	$30,000	1	n/a
Labors Community Service Agency Inc	$17,000	1	2%
Apano Communities United Fund	$16,000	1	0%
Communities of Color for a Just Oregon	$15,000	1	n/a
New Progressive Network	$15,000	1	12%
Oregon Donor Alliance	$15,000	1	n/a
National Association For Black Veterans Inc	$15,000	1	7%
Oregonians United to End Slavery	$10,000	1	n/a
East County Rising PAC	$10,000	1	n/a
Building Power for Communities of Color	$10,000	1	2%
Portland Jobs With Justice	$7,500	1	20%
Children First for Oregon	$7,500	1	1%
Human Rights Human Stories	$7,500	1	n/a
Basic Rights Oregon	$6,000	1	2%

Service Employees International Union supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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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.

Seeding JusticeOR25.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seeding Justice · Northwest Health Foundation · Northwest Health Foundation Fund II · Portland Regional Educational Telecommunications Corporation · The Collins Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Ronald W Naito Md Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Social Justice Fund Northwest · United Way of the Columbia-Willamette · The Ford Family Foundation · Oregon Ranked Choice Voting Advocates

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.

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About Service Employees International Union

How much does Service Employees International Union give?: Service Employees International Union reported 2 itemized grants totaling $65,000, out of $75,755 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Service Employees International Union fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (32%), Employment (25%), Human Services (19%).
Who are Service Employees International Union's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Our Oregon ($2.0M), Service Employees Intl Union Local 49 ($2.0M), Defend Oregon ($1.3M).
Does Service Employees International Union fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Service Employees International Union?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seeding Justice, Northwest Health Foundation, Northwest Health Foundation Fund II.
Where is Service Employees International Union based?: Service Employees International Union is based in OR.