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United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 1500

Represent employees under contract with management.

$87k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 44% of UNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIAL WORKERS UNION LOCAL 1500’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 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 2 grants below total $16,100 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $86,673 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $70,573 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 $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UFCW HARDSHIP FUND$10,000
LI FEDERATION OF LABOR AFL-CIO$6,100
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 (FY23–23, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%SOUTH PACIFIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%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.

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$157k · 6 repeat orgs$42k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +9% since the first grant, against -90% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
5

Total granted

$157k
$42k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
-90%

Still filing today

100%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyEmploymentHuman ServicesOther

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

  • UF
    UNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIAL WORKERS INTERNATIONAL UNION
    2× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +9%
  • LI
    LONG ISLAND FEDERATION OF LABOR AFL-CIO
    4× · 2017–2024 · $24k · revenue +36%
  • LI
    LONG ISLAND COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM & DRUG DEPENDENCE INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $18k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • SP
    SOUTH PACIFIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -90%
  • SA
    ST ANTHONYS HIGH SCHOOL SOUTH HUNTINGTON
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • JA
    JAMES A CULLEN MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -100%

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.

1
Chicago Federation of Labor and Industrial Union Council

Labor council

2
Central New York Labor Federation
3
Laborers Union Local 155

To operate the local union for the membership.

4
United Food & Commercial Workers Union Local 3000

Labor union

5
Laborers' Local 300 Scholarship Fund

To provide scholarships for families of local union members.

Education
6
Suffolk County Association of Municipal Employees Inc

The organization safeguards its members by negotiating and enforcing collective bargaining agreements that ensure reasonable compensation, job protection, and advocacy for a safe and healthy workplace to best serve suffolk county. the…

7
Western New York Area Labor Federation
8
Ufcw Local 152 Health & Welfare Fund

The organization is the trust for a multiemployer welfare benefit plan that covers eligible members and their dependents, established pursuant to various collective bargaining agreements.

9
Connecticut State Afl-Cio

Labor union

10
Professional Staff Congress Cuny

Psc is a labor union that represents nearly 30,000 active and retired faculty and staff at cuny and the cuny research foundation. the psc's mission is to advance the professional lives of our members, enhance their terms and conditions of…

11
American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Orgs

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

12
International Longshore & Warehouse Union Local 142

Labor union that provides economic and social betterment for its members, in general. in particular, to (a) carry on collective bargaining process with employers engaged in agriculture, stevedoring, tourism and other related industries;…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York State Afl-Cio and the most unlike its peers is James a Cullen Memorial Scholarship Fund. 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 11 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LONG ISLAND FEDERATION OF LABOR AFL-CIO — $24,100 · OtherLONG ISLAND FEDERATION OF LABOR AFL-CIOLONG ISLAND COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM & DRUG DEPENDENCE INC — $18,350 · OtherLONG ISLAND COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM & DRUG DEPENDENC…NEW YORK STATE AFL-CIO — $14,100 · OtherNEW YORK STATE AFL-CIOST ANTHONYS HIGH SCHOOL SOUTH HUNTINGTON — $10,000 · OtherST ANTHONYS HIGH SCHOOL SOUTH HUNTINGTONJAMES A CULLEN MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $10,000 · OtherJAMES A CULLEN MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUNDNORTHEASTERN POLICIAL ACTION COMMITTEE — $6,000 · OtherNORTHEASTERN POLICIAL ACTION COMMITTEECENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL NEW YORK CITY AFL-CIO — $5,500 · OtherCENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL NEW YORK CITY AFL-CIOUFCW LOCAL 1500 SCHOLARSHIP TRUST FUND — $55,800 · EducationUFCW LOCAL 1500 SCHOLARSHIP TRU…UNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIAL WORKERS INTERNATIONAL UNION — $30,000 · EmploymentUNITED FOOD AND C…LOCAL 1500 CHARITY FUND LTD — $15,000 · PhilanthropySOUTH PACIFIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Human Services
Other$88,050Education$55,800Employment$30,000Philanthropy$15,000Human Services$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUFCW LOCAL 1500 SCHOLARSHIP TRUST FUND — $55,800 over 3y, 35% of budgetUNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIAL WORKERS INTERNATIONAL UNION — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLONG ISLAND FEDERATION OF LABOR AFL-CIO — $24,100 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetLONG ISLAND COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM & DRUG DEPENDENCE INC — $18,350 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLOCAL 1500 CHARITY FUND LTD — $15,000 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetNEW YORK STATE AFL-CIO — $14,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH PACIFIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJAMES A CULLEN MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetCENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL NEW YORK CITY AFL-CIO — $5,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 1500 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 Union Local 1500?

    Find your warmest path to United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 1500 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 11 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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