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Teamster Disaster Relief Fund
Disaster relief fund.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEAMSTERS LOCAL UNION 509 | $250,000 |
| TEAMSTERS LOCAL UNION 61 | $50,000 |
| TEAMSTERS JOINT COUNCIL 42 | $20,000 |
| TEAMSTERS LOCAL UNION 554 | $7,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 54% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 17% of Teamster Disaster Relief Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $328k went to new ones.
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
- TJTeamsters Joint Council No752× · 2020–2022 · $268k · revenue +74%
- IBINTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS JOINT COUNCIL NO 162× · 2017–2018 · $200k · revenue +34%
- TJTeamsters' Joint Council No 73× · 2017–2020 · $160k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- TATeamsters All Charities Fundone grant, 2018 · $150k · revenue -35% · 33% of their budget
- TLTEAMSTERS LOCAL UNION 991one grant, 2018 · $125k
- TLTEAMSTERS LOCAL UNION 391one grant, 2018 · $60k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Labor organization for various industries; ensuring fair wages and proper benefits for its members.
Labor Union
To organize workers for their moral, economic and social advancement.
To organize clerical employees of the university of california system in order to secure fair wages and better working conditions.
The mission of teamsters local 959 is to provide its members with representation in the workplace and to support the interests of labor everywhere.
Labor union
The local union's mission is to organize and educate workers so that they have a voice in the workplace and know their workplace rights; involve workers in the political process and to negotiate with employers so that each worker is…
The primary mission of the union is to organize employees and negotiate contracts on their behalf covering wages, benefits, hours, and conditions of employment in accordance with the laws, usages, and requirements of the ibt, and in…
Teamsters, food processing employees, local union no.760 is a non profit labor organization whose primary activities include organizing, negotiating and enforcing labor contracts for collective bargaining units.
Local union representing members thru negotiation
To organize workers and to secure improved wages, benefits and working conditions.
The Local Union's mission is to organize and educate workers so that they have a voice in the workplace and know their workplace rights;involve workers in the political process and to negotiate with employers so that each worker is treated…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is International Brotherhood of Teamsters Chauffers Warehousemen Local No 554 and the most unlike its peers is Teamsters Local 986 Charity Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 18 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Teamsters Joint Council No75 ↗
- Who funds TEAMSTERS LOCAL UNION NO 509 ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS JOINT COUNCIL NO 16 ↗
- Who funds Teamsters' Joint Council No 7 ↗
- Who funds Teamsters All Charities Fund ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS LOCAL UNION 61 ↗
- Who funds Teamsters Local 986 Charity Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS LOCAL UNION NO 238 ↗
- Who funds International Brotherhood of 42 Joint Council ↗
- Who funds International Brotherhood of 58 Joint Council ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS CHAUFFERS WAREHOUSEMEN LOCAL NO 554 ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: International Brotherhood of Teamsters
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 Teamster Disaster Relief Fund 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.
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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