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United Steelworkers at a glance

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United Steelworkers

The mission statement of the organization includes, but is not limited to on behalf of its members collective bargaining, grievance procedures, arbitration, strike benefits, education, organize, and to improve the working conditions of its members.

$81k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Employment$142kCommunity Improvement$26kMembership Benefit$20kCivil Rights$20kArts & Culture$15kPublic Benefit$15kReligion$10kEducation$5k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $45,750, the rows itemized in this filing. The $80,976 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $35,226 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.
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LABOR COMMUNITY SERVICES$20,750
SOUTH BAY CENTER FOR COUNCILING$15,000
LACLAA LA CHAPTER$10,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%USW Local 5: $20k → 9%California Labor Federation: $35k → 10%JOBS WITH JUSTICE SAN FRANCISCO: $9k → 10%IELC: $5k → 11%MIGUEL CONTRERAS FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%USW Local 13-243: $20k → 19%UNION COMMUNITY FUND: $10k → 14%LABOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $21k → 14%LCLAA LA CHAPTER: $15k → 14%LA COUNTY FEDERATION OF LABOR: $15k → 14%LCLAA LA CHAPTER: $13k → 14%LCLAA LA CHAPTER: $10k → 14%LACLAA LA CHAPTER: $10k → 14%LA County Federation: $8k → 14%Kiwa: $8k → 14%SOUTH BAY CENTER FOR COUNCILING: $15k → 14%Kiwa: $5k → 14%SBCC: $10k → 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.
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.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$108k · 4 repeat orgs$145k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +223% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
7

Total granted

$108k
$124k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+223%
+11%

Still filing today

50%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’25
Community ImprovementEmploymentArts & CultureOther
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

  • LL
    LCLAA LA CHAPTER
    3× · 2021–2025 · $35k
  • KI
    KOREAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADVOCATES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
    3× · 2020–2022 · $26k · revenue +223%
  • SB
    SOUTH BAY CENTER FOR COUNCILING
    2× · 2023–2025 · $25k

Funded once

  • CL
    California Labor Federation AFL-CIO
    one grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue +8%
  • TM
    THE MIGUEL CONTRERAS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +19%
  • US
    UNITED STEELWORKERS
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -92%
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
United Steelworkers International

The mission statement of the organizatin includes, but is not limited to, on behalf of its members, collective bargaining, greivance procedures, arbitration, strike benefits, education, and to improve the working conditions of its members.

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2
United Steelworkers Local 12-07600

The mission statement of the Organization includes, but is not limited to on behalf of its Members Collective Barganing, Grievance procedures, Arbitration, Strike Benefits, Education, and to improve the working conditions of its Members.

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3
United Steelworkers International 00241

The Mission Statement of the Organization Includes, but is not limited to, on Behalf of its Members Collective Bargaining, Grievance Procedures, Arbitration, Strike Benefits, Education, and to Improve the Working Conditions of its Members.

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4
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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5
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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6
The Laborers Pacific Southwest Regional Organizing Coalition

to organize workers in the laborers international union of north America, afl-cio pacific southwest region through a coordinated program to maintain and improve employment opportunities for affiliated local union members and to recruit new…

Employment
7
San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council Afl-Cio

The Labor Council offers an avenue for local unions to come together as one group.

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8
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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9
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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10
Laborers' International Union of North America Laborers' Local #43

Promote and protect the interests of the members of the local

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11
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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12
Laborers Afl-Cio Local Union 362

Labor union

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Los Angeles County Federation of Labor Afl-Cio; the most unlike its peers is United Steelworkers. 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 12 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

California Labor Federation AFL-CIO: $35,271 · OtherCalifornia Labor Federation AFL-CIOLCLAA LA CHAPTER: $35,000 · OtherLCLAA LA CHAPTERSOUTH BAY CENTER FOR COUNCILING: $25,000 · OtherSOUTH BAY CENTER FOR COUNCILINGLOS ANGELES COUNTY FEDERATION OF LABOR AFL-CIO: $22,500 · OtherLOS ANGELES COUNTY FEDERATION OF LABOR AFL-CIOLABOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $20,750 · OtherLABOR COMMUNITY SERVICESUNITED STEELWORKERS: $20,130 · OtherUNITED STEELWORKERSUnited Steelworkers Local 12-00005: $20,000 · OtherUnited Steelworkers Local 12-00005AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS: $10,000 · Other+1 more: $5,000 · OtherKOREAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADVOCATES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $25,800 · Community ImprovementKOREAN IMMI…THE MIGUEL CONTRERAS FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MIGUEL …Jobs with Justice San Francisco: $8,500 · Employment
Other$193,651Community Improvement$25,800Arts & Culture$25,000Employment$8,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCalifornia Labor Federation AFL-CIO: $35,271 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKOREAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADVOCATES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $25,800 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MIGUEL CONTRERAS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES COUNTY FEDERATION OF LABOR AFL-CIO: $22,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED STEELWORKERS: $20,130 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUnited Steelworkers Local 12-00005: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJobs with Justice San Francisco: $8,500 over 1y, 0.9% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

The James Irvine Foun…
The James Irvine FoundationCA13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover 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 United Steelworkers funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Steelworkers. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 12 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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