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United Food and Commercial Workers International Union

To organize all workers for the economic, moral, and social advancement of their condition and status.

$2.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
43
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$750k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of UNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIAL WORKERS INTERNATIONAL UNION’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.

02FY2024 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 43 grants below total $2,202,327 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,467,939 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $265,612 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $494k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $629k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
$20,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$677M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LETTER CARRIERS$750,000
UNITED LATINOS OF THE UFCW INC$288,600
BUILDING BACK TOGETHER$150,000
DEMOCRACY ALLIANCE$100,000
CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION$100,000
CONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS INSTITUTE INC$70,000
ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS$59,377
NORTH MAIN STREET FUND$50,000
UFCW LOCAL NO 1625$50,000
STOP THE BAN PROTECT JOBS$50,000
CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS POLITICAL EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE$40,000
UFCW LOCAL NO 1996$40,000
CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION$35,000
UFCW MINORITY COALITION$30,500
AMERICA'S AGENDA HEALTH CARE FOR ALL$30,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $258k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 22% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PIONEER VALLEY WORKERS CENTER: $10k → 12%SOUTH PACIFIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $200k → 9%LOCAL ONE RELIEF FUND: $25k → 16%NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW AMERICANS: $8k → 14%INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NH
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OR
IA
OH
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CA
CO
NE
MO
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VA
MD
AZ
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NC
DC
HI
LA
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$17M · 56 repeat orgs$6.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.

56 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
72

Total granted

$17M
$6.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+3%

Still filing today

88%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $337k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsPublic BenefitEducationEmploymentCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther

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

  • NA
    NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LETTER CARRIERS
    7× · 2017–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +37%
  • WA
    WORKING AMERICA
    6× · 2017–2022 · $2.8M · revenue +187%
  • BI
    BALLOT INITIATIVE STRATEGY CENTER INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $710k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • CT
    Coalition to Protect Riders and Drivers sponsored by the CA Labor Federation AFL-CIO
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES COUNTY FEDERATION OF LABOR AFL-CIO
    one grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue +10%
  • PM
    PROTECT MICHIGAN FAMILIES
    one grant, 2023 · $500k

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

04Your field

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.

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United Food and Commercial Workers International Union

To organize all workers for the economic, moral, and social advancement of their condition and status.

Employment
2
Laborers International Union of 341 Hcl

Union hall devoted to the betterment of members compensation and working conditions, to secure recognition of workers rights to engage in collective bargaining, and to promote the development and maintenance of on-the-job safety practices…

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3
American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Orgs

To organize all workers for the economic, moral and social advancement of their condition and status.

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4
United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 27 Afl-Cio

To conduct a local union of persons engaged in the performance of work within its jurisdiction; to organize, unite, and assist persons, without regard to race, creed, color, sex, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation, or national…

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5
International Union of Operating Engineers Local 825ABCDRRH

The work of the union, as the representative of its members, is to provide for the continuous employment of labor, to bring about stable conditions in the industry, and to establish necessary procedures for resolutions of disputes between…

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6
Washington State Labor Council Afl-Cio

To protect and strengthen the rights and conditions of working people and their families.

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7
Laborers International Union of North America - Local 1076

The local is a nonprofit organization established to represent its members in wage and fringe benefits matters in the construction industry. the local's primary areas of jurisdiction are oakland and livingston counties.

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8
Contra Costa Labor Council Afl-Cio

The council is a federation of approximately 85 affiliated unions. the organizaton engages in a wide range of activities. the activities are designed to improve the lives of working families, to bring economic justice to the workplace, and…

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9
United States Federation for Worker Cooperation

To build a thriving ecosystem for worker-owned and controlled businesses - and their cooperative leaders - to power movements for racial justice and economic democracy.

Employment
10
Afl-Cio Union Lawyers Alliance

Afl-cio union lawyers alliance was established to better the conditions of working men and women and their families by enhancing the quality of legal representation that is available to the afl-cio and the national and international unions…

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11
Laborers' International Union of North America

To improve working conditions and living standards of members through collective bargaining, education, training, and employee benefits.

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12
American Federation of Labor Ohio Afl-Cio

To advance middle class and working class values by promoting social and economic justice. we join together over 263,000 union members to make our voice heard in the policy and political arenas. the ohio afl-cio represents 1,787 local…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Leadership Conference On Civil and Human Rights Inc and the most unlike its peers is International Paper Company Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyImmigrant Worker SupportCommunity College Foundatio…Community FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Lgbtq+ Community SupportMilitary Veterans SupportJewish Community Organizati…Local Food System Organizat…Affordable Housing Developm…Women & Girls Leadership De…Local History MuseumsChristian Missionary Organi…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Policy Research and Advocacy
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr14%7%5–10yr18%14%10–20yr18%27%20–35yr16%22%35–55yr15%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%6%<5yr14%3%5–10yr18%12%10–20yr18%28%20–35yr16%14%35–55yr15%38%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%4/143
the rest of the field
12%
1,600/12,858

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

124 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. 124 of the 144 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
117/124
Grantees still filing
69/124
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WORKING AMERICA — $2,845,052 · OtherWORKING AMERICABBT INC — $1,300,000 · OtherBBT INCCoalition to Protect Riders and Drivers sponsored by the CA Labor Federation AFL-CIO — $1,000,000 · OtherCoalition to Protect Riders and Drivers sponsored by the CA Labor Federat…WE ARE MISSOURI — $725,000 · OtherBALLOT INITIATIVE STRATEGY CENTER INC — $710,000 · OtherDEMOCRACY ALLIANCE — $590,000 · Other+103 more — $7,863,601 · Other+103 moreNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LETTER CARRIERS — $3,250,000 · EmploymentNATIONAL ASSOCIATIO…United Latinos of the UFCW Inc — $527,500 · EmploymentUnited Latinos of t…+4 more — $104,070 · EmploymentALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS — $577,401 · Civil RightsALLIANCE …Jobs with Justice — $328,000 · Civil RightsJobs with…NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC — $311,200 · Civil RightsNAACP EMP…New Orleans Workers Ctr For Racial Justice — $250,000 · Civil RightsNew Orlea…CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS POLITICAL EDU CATION AND LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE — $140,000 · Civil RightsCONGRESSI…CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC — $95,000 · Civil Rights+9 more — $286,751 · Civil Rights+9 moreAmerica Votes — $440,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $100,000 · Community ImprovementNORTH MAIN STREET FUND — $50,000 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE — $30,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $10,000 · Community ImprovementRepairers of the Breach — $475,000 · ReligionInterfaith Worker Justice — $83,250 · ReligionSAMUEL DEWITT PROCTOR CONFERENCE INC — $40,000 · ReligionAMERICA'S AGENDA HEALTH CARE FOR ALL — $235,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $175,000 · HealthLOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY — $60,000 · HealthAssociation of Occupational and Environmental Clinics — $25,000 · HealthECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE — $395,000 · Social ScienceA BETTER BALANCE INC — $20,000 · Social Science
Other$15,033,653Employment$3,881,570Civil Rights$1,988,352Community Improvement$630,000Religion$598,250Health$495,000Social Science$415,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LETTER CARRIERS — $3,250,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWORKING AMERICA — $2,845,052 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetBBT INC — $1,300,000 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetCoalition to Protect Riders and Drivers sponsored by the CA Labor Federation AFL-CIO — $1,000,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetBALLOT INITIATIVE STRATEGY CENTER INC — $710,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS — $577,401 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetUnited Latinos of the UFCW Inc — $527,500 over 8y, 61% of budgetLOS ANGELES COUNTY FEDERATION OF LABOR AFL-CIO — $500,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetRepairers of the Breach — $475,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS INSTITUTE INC — $470,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetAmerica Votes — $440,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA — $400,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE — $395,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS — $347,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJobs with Justice — $328,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC — $311,200 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetUNITE HERE — $300,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Good Land Committee Inc — $250,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAMERICA'S AGENDA HEALTH CARE FOR ALL — $235,000 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetSOUTH PACIFIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $175,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL UNION OF PAINTERS AND ALLIED TRADES — $150,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS POLITICAL EDU CATION AND LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE — $140,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetUnited Food & Commercial Workers — $137,935 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetNJ CAN 2020 INC — $125,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetUnited Food and Commercial Workers Minority Coalition — $116,500 over 8y, 61% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION — $115,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUFCW OUTREACH — $100,000 over 8y, 62% of budgetCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL EMPLOYMENT LAW PROJECT — $100,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetUnited Food & Commercial Workers — $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC — $95,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCOALITION OF BLACK TRADE UNIONISTS — $85,000 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetInterfaith Worker Justice — $83,250 over 4y, 15% of budgetUNIDOSUS ACTION FUND INC — $75,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetMOREHOUSE COLLEGE — $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMoveOnorg Civic Action — $64,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetLOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY — $60,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIAL WORKERS UNION LOCAL 8 - GOLDEN STATE — $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWESTERN STATES ISSUE EDUCATION FUND INC — $60,000 over 5y, 9.3% of budgetCENTER FOR LABOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INC — $58,001 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetConsumer Federation of America — $57,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetUnited States Hispanic Leadership Institute Inc — $53,500 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetNEW JERSEY STATE AFL-CIO — $51,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetLABOR COUNCIL FOR LATIN AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT — $50,250 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetNORTH MAIN STREET FUND — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Communications Worker…American Federation o…International Brother…American Federation o…Int Union United Auto…Unite HereSixteen Thirty FundUnited Steel Paper an…Open Society Action F…International Union o…International Brother…National Education As…
Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio ClcDC53.3× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc · American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees · International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers · American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations · Int Union United Auto National Community Action Program · Unite Here · Sixteen Thirty Fund · United Steel Paper and Forestry Rubber Manufacturing Energy Allied · Open Society Action Fund Inc · International Union of Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers · International Brotherhood of Teamsters · National Education Association of the United States

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 United Food and Commercial Workers International Union 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 53%
  • Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge — 100% of income from government
  • Pioneer Valley Workers Center Inc — 53% of income from government
  • Transportation Communications Unioniam — 17% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to United Food and Commercial Workers International Union?

Find your warmest path to United Food and Commercial Workers International Union 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 144 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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