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Teamster Disaster Relief Fund

Disaster relief fund.

$328k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Public Safety & Disaster$560kEmployment$490kMembership Benefit$300kPhilanthropy$150kCommunity Improvement$30k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$530k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEAMSTERS LOCAL UNION 509$250,000
TEAMSTERS LOCAL UNION 61$50,000
TEAMSTERS JOINT COUNCIL 42$20,000
TEAMSTERS LOCAL UNION 554$7,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 54% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%TEAMSTERS LOCAL 554: $10k → 12%ALL CHARITIES TEAMSTERS FUND: $150k → 10%TEAMSTERS JOINT COUNCIL 42: $20k → 14%TEAMSTERS JOINT COUNCIL 16: $140k → 17%TEAMSTERS JC 58: $10k → 16%TEAMSTERS LOCAL UNION 509: $250k → 11%TEAMSTERS LOCAL UNION 991: $125k → 19%TEAMSTERS LOCAL UNION 61: $50k → 12%TEAMSTERS LOCAL UNION 391: $60k → 16%TEAMSTERS LOCAL 651: $50k → 15%TEAMSTERS LOCAL UNION 554: $8k → 12%TEAMSTERS JOINT COUNCIL 7: $50k → 10%TEAMSTERS JOINT COUNCIL 16: $60k → 17%TEAMSTERS JOINT COUNCIL 7: $50k → 10%TEAMSTERS JC 16: $50k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
OH
CA
NE
KY
NC
SC
LA
AL
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 17% of Teamster Disaster Relief Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Teamster Disaster Relief Fundlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 13% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

41%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$628k · 3 repeat orgs$902k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
11

Total granted

$628k
$575k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+13%

Still filing today

100%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $328k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TJ
    Teamsters Joint Council No75
    2× · 2020–2022 · $268k · revenue +74%
  • IB
    INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS JOINT COUNCIL NO 16
    2× · 2017–2018 · $200k · revenue +34%
  • TJ
    Teamsters' Joint Council No 7
    3× · 2017–2020 · $160k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • TA
    Teamsters All Charities Fund
    one grant, 2018 · $150k · revenue +4% · 33% of their budget
  • TL
    TEAMSTERS LOCAL UNION 991
    one grant, 2018 · $125k
  • TL
    TEAMSTERS LOCAL UNION 391
    one grant, 2018 · $60k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local Union 137

Labor organization for various industries; ensuring fair wages and proper benefits for its members.

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2
International Brotherhood of 856 Tcwh Freight Checkers Clerical

Labor Union

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3
International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local Union No 330

To organize workers for their moral, economic and social advancement.

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4
International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 2010

To organize clerical employees of the university of california system in order to secure fair wages and better working conditions.

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5
International Brotherhood of Teamsters

The mission of teamsters local 959 is to provide its members with representation in the workplace and to support the interests of labor everywhere.

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6
International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 957

Labor union

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7
Intl Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 252

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…

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8
International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 553

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…

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9
Intl Brotherhood of Teamsters Lu 760

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.

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10
International Brotherhood of 839 Tcwh

Local union representing members thru negotiation

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11
Teamsters Chauffeurs Warehousemen & Helpers- Local No 773

To organize workers and to secure improved wages, benefits and working conditions.

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12
Intl Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 313

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is International Brotherhood of Teamsters Chauffers Warehousemen Local No 554; 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.
05the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Teamsters Joint Council No75: $267,668 · OtherTeamsters Joint Council No75TEAMSTERS LOCAL UNION NO 509: $250,000 · OtherTEAMSTERS LOCAL UNION NO 509INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS JOINT COUNCIL NO 16: $200,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS JOINT COUNCIL NO 16Teamsters' Joint Council No 7: $160,000 · OtherTeamsters' Joint Council No 7Teamsters All Charities Fund: $150,000 · OtherTeamsters All Charities FundTEAMSTERS LOCAL UNION 991: $125,000 · OtherTEAMSTERS LOCAL UNION 991TEAMSTERS LOCAL UNION 391: $60,000 · OtherTEAMSTERS LOCAL 270 DISASTER RELIEF FUND: $50,000 · OtherTEAMSTERS JC 16: $50,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS LOCAL UNION 61: $50,000 · OtherTEAMSTERS LOCAL 651: $50,000 · Other+6 more: $87,332 · Other+6 moreTeamsters Local 986 Charity Fund Inc: $30,000 · Community Improvement
Other$1,500,000Community Improvement$30,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTeamsters Joint Council No75: $267,668 over 2y, 22% of budgetTEAMSTERS LOCAL UNION NO 509: $250,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS JOINT COUNCIL NO 16: $200,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetTeamsters' Joint Council No 7: $160,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetTeamsters All Charities Fund: $150,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetINTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS LOCAL UNION 61: $50,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetTeamsters Local 986 Charity Fund Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetINTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS LOCAL UNION NO 238: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetInternational Brotherhood of 42 Joint Council: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetInternational Brotherhood of 58 Joint Council: $9,832 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS CHAUFFERS WAREHOUSEMEN LOCAL NO 554: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

International Brother…
International Brotherhood of TeamstersDC24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Teamster Disaster Relief Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Teamster Disaster Relief Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Teamster Disaster Relief Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Teamster Disaster Relief Fund 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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