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Union Privilege Relief Fund Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$5k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
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States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Public Safety & Disaster$73kEmployment$55kHuman Services$35kHousing & Shelter$10kCivil Rights$10kCommunity Improvement$10kPhilanthropy$10k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
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States reached
$226k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNION COMMUNITY FUND$5,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNITEHERE EDUCATION AND SUPPORT FUND: $25k → 17%TEXAS WORKERS RELIEF FUND: $10k → 10%UNION COMMUNITY FUND: $10k → 14%UNION COMMUNITY FUND: $5k → 14%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

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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.
03Its 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
American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Orgs

Aid and assist affiliated organizations by extending the benefits of mutual assistance and collective bargaining; and to promote union organization through education and policy.

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2
Latino Union of Chicago

Latino Union works to defend the rights and dignity of contingent workers, including the right to immigrate, work, live free of oppression and violence, and provide for oneself and one's family.

Human Services
3
San Mateo County Union Community Alliance

San Mateo County Union Community Alliance enhances the quality of life for all workers in San Mateo County through programs and partnerships with organized labor, community organizations and government to support quality jobs, ensure…

Human Services
4
Laborers' District Council Charitable Foundation

To provide a mechanism for liuna members, private employers, labor unions, and the general public to ascertain and donate to section 501(c)(3) charitable organizations thereby increasing funding for public charities within the community.

Philanthropy
5
Chicago Federation of Labor and Industrial Union Council

Labor council

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6
California Labor Federation Afl-Cio

The primary purposes of the organization are the study of economic and social conditions; the pursuit of policies aimed at effecting a more equal distribution of wealth; and the promotion of full employment.

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7
Coalition for United Community Action co Carl Latimer

The Coalition for United Community Action - ORTC, Inc. (CUCA) works with community organizations, labor unions, contractors, and government agencies to develop construction training programs for unemployed and underemployed minorities and…

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8
New Jersey Working Families Alliance Corp

To increase civic participation

Community Improvement
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Southeastern Pennsylvania Area Labor Federation Afl-Cio

The organization is a democratically elected body dedicated to representing the interests of working people at the state and local level. the organization mobilizes members and community partners to advocate for social and economic justice…

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10
Sacramento Central Labor Council

To benefit local trade unions and their members through education and promotion of union labor to the public.

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11
United Food & Commercial Workers Union Local 3000

Labor union

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United Food and Commercial Workers International Union Local No 663

Labor union

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Labor's Community Service Agency; the most unlike its peers is Georgia Union Community 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.
04the 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 90 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ACTORS FUND HOME CORPORATION: $15,000 · OtherACTORS FUND HOME CORPORATIONMICHIGAN AFL-CIO LABOR FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherMICHIGAN AFL-CIO LABOR FOUNDATIONNEW JERSEY STATE AFL-CIO COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY INC: $10,000 · OtherNEW JERSEY STATE AFL-CIO COMMUNITY SERVICES AG…TEXAS WORKERS RELIEF FUND: $10,000 · OtherTEXAS WORKERS RELIEF FUND+76 more: $38,000 · Other+76 moreUNITE HERE EDUCATION AND SUPPORT FUND: $25,000 · Community ImprovementUNITE HERE EDUCATIO…LABOR COMMUNITY AT WORK INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementLABOR COMMUNITY AT …UNION COMMUNITY FUND: $15,000 · PhilanthropyUNION COMMUNI…UNITED LABOR AGENCY OF NEVADA INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED LABOR …Georgia Union Community Fund Inc: $10,000 · EducationGeorgia Uni…PARTNERSHIP FOR A BETTER SAN DIEGO: $10,000 · EducationPARTNERSHIP…HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT AND EMPLOYMENT INC: $10,000 · EmploymentHUMAN RESOU…Chicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative: $10,000 · EmploymentChicago Fed…LABOR COUNCIL FOR LATIN AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT: $10,000 · Civil RightsLABOR'S COMMUNITY SERVICE AGENCY: $10,000 · Human Services
Other$83,000Community Improvement$35,000Philanthropy$25,000Education$20,000Employment$20,000Civil Rights$10,000Human Services$10,000

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 budgetUNITE HERE EDUCATION AND SUPPORT FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUNION COMMUNITY FUND: $15,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetLABOR COMMUNITY AT WORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetNEW JERSEY STATE AFL-CIO COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetGeorgia Union Community Fund Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetLABOR COUNCIL FOR LATIN AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetHUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT AND EMPLOYMENT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR A BETTER SAN DIEGO: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetChicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED LABOR AGENCY OF NEVADA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

  • Who funds UNITE HERE EDUCATION AND SUPPORT FUND ↗
  • Who funds UNION COMMUNITY FUND ↗
  • Who funds LABOR COMMUNITY AT WORK INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW JERSEY STATE AFL-CIO COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY INC ↗
  • Who funds Georgia Union Community Fund Inc ↗
  • Who funds LABOR COUNCIL FOR LATIN AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT ↗
  • Who funds HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT AND EMPLOYMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR A BETTER SAN DIEGO ↗
  • Who funds Chicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative ↗
  • Who funds UNITED LABOR AGENCY OF NEVADA INC ↗
  • Who funds LABOR'S COMMUNITY SERVICE AGENCY ↗

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.

American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial OrganizationsDC13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover 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 Union Privilege Relief Fund Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Union Privilege Relief Fund Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
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    How do I get to Union Privilege Relief Fund Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Union Privilege Relief Fund Trust 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 90 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-PF 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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