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The Laborers Northwest Regional Organizing Coalition
The northwest regional organizing coalition (nroc) is established and exists to increase union participation in the industries in which the laborers' international union of north america (liuna!) currently represents workers.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 99% of THE LABORERS NORTHWEST REGIONAL ORGANIZING COALITION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 19 grants below total $3,820,314 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,953,681 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $133,367 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $145k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $747k
- $250k+3 grants · $2.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WA & N ID DISTRICT COUNCIL | $2,422,500 |
| NW REG ORGANIZING COAL PAC | $250,000 |
| Laborers Pacific SW Regional | $250,000 |
| Alaska District Council | $213,000 |
| LABORERS UNION LOCAL 341 | $175,488 |
| OREGONS IDAHO DIST COUNCIL | $146,000 |
| LABORERS UNION LOCAL 942 | $93,443 |
| Individual grant recipient | $69,133 |
| LIUNA Local 872 | $50,000 |
| SNLECET | $30,000 |
| Vernie Reed NW Scholarship | $22,250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| NORTHWEST DELEGATE FUND | $20,000 |
| LABORERS UNION LOCAL 720 | $12,500 |
| Helmets to Hardhats | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 27% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
30 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $236k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- NCNORTHWEST COOPERATION FUND3× · 2020–2023 · $292k · revenue +24%
- MSMONTANA STATE AFL-CIO2× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +33%
- LULABORERS UNION LOCAL 1554× · 2018–2021 · $74k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- TJTERENCE J OSULLIVAN LIUNAone grant, 2020 · $91k
- TOT OSullivan LIUNA Charitablone grant, 2024 · $90k
- CFCitizens for Better Transportationone grant, 2019 · $75k
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.
Member, affiliate, and community education for worker's issues - union and non-union
Collective bargaining for members
To represent union membership for purposes of collective bargaining.
To protect and strengthen the rights and conditions of working people and their families.
Represents its members when dealing with the state of Delaware and other employment related matters.
The northwest regional organizing coalition (nroc) is established and exists to increase union participation in the industries in which the laborers' international union of north america (liuna!) currently represents workers. it is nroc's…
Promote and protect the interests of the members of the local
to organize workers in the laborers international union of north America, afl-cio pacific southwest region through a coordinated program to maintain and improve employment opportunities for affiliated local union members and to recruit new…
The Organization's primary mission is to act as collective bargaining agent on behalf of its members to provide jobs and better working conditions.
Operation of local union.
To provide members with employment referrals, labor services, labor representation and benefits.
Labor union
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montana State Afl-Cio and the most unlike its peers is Assemblies of God Oregon District. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 67 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 NORTHWEST COOPERATION FUND ↗
- Who funds LABORERS LOCAL 1686 MONTANA DISTRICT COUNCIL OF LABORERS ↗
- Who funds MONTANA STATE AFL-CIO ↗
- Who funds TERENCE J O'SULLIVAN LIUNA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Citizens for Better Transportation ↗
- Who funds LABORERS UNION LOCAL 155 ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC EMPLOYEES LOCAL 71 ↗
- Who funds Assemblies of God Oregon District ↗
- Who funds LABORERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA LOCAL 872 ↗
- Who funds RENEWABLE HYDROGEN ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds No on 2117 Committee ↗
- Who funds NW COALITION FOR ENERGY CHOICE ↗
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.
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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 The Laborers Northwest Regional Organizing Coalition 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.