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United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 1500 at a glance

· Public charity

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 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 2024.

Education$76kEmployment$44kHealth$33kCivil Rights$18kMembership Benefit$11kHuman Services$10kPublic Benefit$6k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $16,100, the rows itemized in this filing. The $86,673 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $70,573 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 · 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

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:

Its 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 its 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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +9% since the first grant, against -90% for those 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
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

  • 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

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

Labor council

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2
Central New York Labor Federation
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3
Laborers Union Local 155

To operate the local union for the membership.

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4
United Food & Commercial Workers Union Local 3000

Labor union

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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…

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7
Western New York Area Labor Federation
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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.

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9
Connecticut State Afl-Cio

Labor union

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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…

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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.

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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;…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York State Afl-Cio; 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 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. 9 of the 11 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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-CIOJAMES A CULLEN MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $10,000 · OtherJAMES A CULLEN MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUNDST ANTHONYS HIGH SCHOOL SOUTH HUNTINGTON: $10,000 · OtherST ANTHONYS HIGH SCHOOL SOUTH HUNTINGTONNORTHEASTERN 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetJAMES A CULLEN MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetSOUTH PACIFIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL NEW YORK CITY AFL-CIO: $5,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 1500 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 1500. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's 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, 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 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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