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United Association of Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 23 at a glance

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United Association of Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 23

Labor union

$129k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$23k
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 2025.

Health$107kArts & Culture$60kPhilanthropy$24kEmployment$10kCivil Rights$10kHousing & Shelter$7kPublic Safety & Disaster$7kCommunity Improvement$5k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $49,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $129,042 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $79,542 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $43k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$6.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NIKOLAS RITSCHEL FOUNDATION$22,500
ROCKFORD AREA CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU$20,000
UA CHARITABLE FUND TRUST$7,000
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNION HISTORIES: $8k → 13%FIGHT BACK FUND: $10k → 14%UNITED WAY OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY: $14k → 15%UA CHARITABLE FUND TRUST: $7k → 6%VOTE YES FOR WORKERS RIGHTS: $10k → 14%MERCY HEALTH CORPORATION: $6k → 15%UNITED WAY OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY: $5k → 15%UNITED WAY OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY: $5k → 15%ROCKFORD AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $7k → 15%ROCKFORD AREA CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU: $20k → 15%ROCKFORD AREA CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU: $12k → 15%ROCKFORD AREA CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU: $12k → 15%ROCKFORD AREA CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU: $9k → 15%ROCKFORD AREA CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%NIKOLAS RITSCHEL FOUNDATION: $12k → 15%NIKOLAS RITSCHEL FOUNDATION: $12k → 15%NIKOLAS RITSCHEL FOUNDATION: $9k → 15%NIKOLAS RITSCHEL FOUNDATION: $8k → 15%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.
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$178k · 3 repeat orgs$52k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
6

Total granted

$178k
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+82%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
PhilanthropyHousing & ShelterEmploymentCommunity ImprovementPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • NR
    Nikolas Ritschel Foundation
    7× · 2019–2025 · $101k · revenue +143%
  • RA
    ROCKFORD AREA CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU
    4× · 2022–2025 · $53k · revenue +37%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY
    3× · 2017–2020 · $24k · revenue -6%

Funded once

  • VY
    VOTE YES FOR WORKERS RIGHTS
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • FB
    FIGHT BACK FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -69%
  • UH
    UNION HISTORIES
    one grant, 2024 · $8k
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
Transform Rockford
Community Improvement
2
Rockford Community Investment Fund

To support housing and community development ventures

Community Improvement
3
Rockford Area Historical Society

Inspire communitys interest in the past

Arts & Culture
4
Rockford Area Strategic Initiatives

The primary role of the rockford area strategic initiative is to enhance education, commerce, trade and economic development in the rockford region

Community Improvement
5
Rockford Regional Health Council

Rockford regional health council is a not-for-profit social service corporation organized under the laws of the state of illinois for the purpose of improving community health through data gatering and analysis, education and advocacy.

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6
Rockford Area Community Endowment

Rockford area community endowment is a local foundation committed to assisting rockford area residents, businesses, government and volunteer organizations to expand opportunities locally. race was founded in 1964.

Philanthropy
7
Blackhawk Waterways Cvb

Promote tourism in nw illinois

—
8
Rockford Bell Credit Union

Rockford Bell Credit Union is a member owned community credit union chartered by the state. We are dedicated to providing quality financial service for our membership.

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9
Rockford Sharefest

Rockford sharefest exists to identify, develop and lead projects that empower and release volunteers and donors to use their god-given gifts, abilities and resources to make an impact for the common good. rockford sharefest is bringing…

Community Improvement
10
Rockford University

To educate men & women to lead responsible lives by means of a curriculum grounded in liberal arts learning and complemented and extended by professional and practical experience, through the total academic and co-curricular experience,…

Education
11
Rockbridge Area Habitat for Humanity Inc

Provide affordable housing solutions for low-income families.

—
12
Rockford Park District Foundation

To assist the rockford park district by securing philanthropic support on its behalf and enhancing awareness of the district's benefits to the community.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rockford Area Convention and Visitors Bureau; the most unlike its peers is Nikolas Ritschel Foundation. 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

8 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. 8 of the 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Nikolas Ritschel Foundation: $101,362 · PhilanthropyNikolas Ritschel FoundationUNITED WAY OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY: $24,305 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF ROCK RIVER VALLEYMERCY HEALTH CORPORATION: $5,500 · PhilanthropyROCKFORD AREA CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU: $52,500 · OtherROCKFORD AREA CONVENTION AND VISIT…VOTE YES FOR WORKERS RIGHTS: $10,000 · OtherVOTE YES FOR WORKERS RIGHTSUNION HISTORIES: $7,800 · OtherUNION HISTORIESFIGHT BACK FUND: $10,000 · EmploymentUA CHARITABLE FUND TRUST: $7,000 · Public Safety & DisasterROCKFORD AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $7,000 · Housing & ShelterROCKFORD AREA CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Community Improvement
Philanthropy$131,167Other$70,300Employment$10,000Public Safety & Disaster$7,000Housing & Shelter$7,000Community Improvement$5,000

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 budgetNikolas Ritschel Foundation: $101,362 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetROCKFORD AREA CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU: $52,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY: $24,305 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFIGHT BACK FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROCKFORD AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROCKFORD AREA CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% 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.

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.

Community Foundation …American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
Community Foundation of Northern ILIL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Northern IL · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 United Association of Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 23 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Association of Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 23. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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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    Find your warmest path to United Association of Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 23 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 10 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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