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United Steelworkers Intl Group Return

Work together to improve jobs, build a better future, promote fairness, justice and equality in the workplace and society.

$441k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Employment$508kCommunity Improvement$340kPublic Benefit$155kEducation$140kCivil Rights$118kHealth$103kRecreation & Sports$91kEnvironment$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 15 grants below total $158,885 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $441,278 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $282,393 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 $10k7 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $114k
$10,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WISCONSIN STATE AFL-CIO$25,000
GO GOGO FOUNDATION CORP$20,000
NEW JERSEY AFL-CIO$15,000
PEGGY BROWNING FUND$13,000
NATIONAL COLLEGE PLAYERS ASSOCIATION$10,500
ALASKA AFL-CIO$10,000
FAIR SHOT TEXAS ACTION FUND$10,000
LABOR AND ENERGY ALLIANCE INC$10,000
NEW YORK STATE AFL-CIO$8,400
MARCH OF DIMES INC$8,000
BREAKTHROUGH T1D$6,000
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY$6,000
WISCONSIN ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS INC$6,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC$5,500
PENNSYLVANIA AFL-CIO$5,485
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 77% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ALLIANCE FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE: $16k → 15%THE LABOR GUILD: $10k → 7%COALITION TO PROTECT WORKERS RIGHTS: $10k → 16%ST PAUL REGIONAL LABOR FEDERATION: $10k → 14%MONTANA AFL-CIO: $15k → 9%LABOR AND ENERGY ALLIANCE INC: $10k → 22%NATIONAL COLLEGE PLAYERS ASSOCIATION: $12k → 11%LA COUNTY FEDERATION OF LABOR AFL-CIO COUNCIL ON POLITICAL EDUCATION: $40k → 14%NEW YORK STATE AFL-CIO: $18k → 14%FAIR SHOT TEXAS ACTION FUND: $10k → 10%ENERGY FUTURES INITIATIVE: $50k → 14%KANSAS VALUES INSTITUTE: $100k → 15%WISCONSIN STATE AFL-CIO: $25k → 17%TENNESSEE WORKERS ALLIANCE: $10k → 14%TENNESSEE AFL-CIO: $10k → 14%UTAH CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL: $20k → 8%OHIO AFL-CIO: $10k → 15%SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE: $32k → 17%ALASKA AFL-CIO: $10k → 22%NEW JERSEY AFL-CIO COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY: $20k → 11%ALLIANCE FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE: $12k → 15%NATIONAL COLLEGE PLAYERS ASSOCIATION: $12k → 11%LOS ANGELES FEDERATION OF LABOR: $10k → 14%FAIR SHOT TEXAS ACTION FUND: $10k → 10%KANSAS VALUES INSTITUTE: $90k → 15%GREATER KANSAS CITY AFL-CIO: $10k → 15%TENNESSEE AFL-CIO LABOR COUNCIL: $10k → 14%ALASKA AFL-CIO: $10k → 22%NEW JERSEY STATE AFL-CIO COPE: $16k → 11%NATIONAL COLLEGE PLAYERS ASSOCIATION: $12k → 11%FAIR SHOT TEXAS ACTION FUND: $10k → 10%KANSAS VALUES INSTITUTE: $60k → 15%TENNESSEE AFL-CIO LABOR COUNCIL: $9k → 14%ALASKA AFL-CIO: $10k → 22%NEW JERSEY STATE AFL-CIO COPE: $16k → 11%NATIONAL COLLEGE PLAYERS ASSOCIATION: $11k → 11%KANSAS VALUES INSTITUTE: $50k → 15%NEW JERSEY AFL-CIO: $15k → 11%STEELWORKERS CHARITABLE AND EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATION: $185k → 11%KANSAS VALUES INSTITUTE: $40k → 15%WISCONSIN STATE AFL-CIO: $25k → 17%NEW JERSEY AFL-CIO: $15k → 11%STEELWORKERS CHARITABLE AND EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATION: $13k → 11%SAVE KANSAS: $25k → 15%NEW JERSEY AFL-CIO: $15k → 11%PITTSBURGH LABOR COUNCIL FOR LATIN AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT: $10k → 11%WORK ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL OF NEW JERSEY: $11k → 11%PITTSBURGH FORMER PLAYERS: $10k → 11%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

AK
ME
WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
UT
MO
KY
WV
VA
AZ
KS
TN
DC
AL
GA
TX

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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 19 repeat orgs$436k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
30

Total granted

$1.1M
$389k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-8%
+11%

Still filing today

95%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k 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
HealthEducationEmploymentEnvironmentRecreation & SportsPublic BenefitOther

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

  • NJ
    New Jersey State AFL-CIO COPE
    5× · 2017–2024 · $77k · revenue +124%
  • Alliance for Global Justice Corp
    3× · 2017–2020 · $35k · revenue +60%
  • NY
    NEW YORK STATE AFL-CIO
    3× · 2021–2024 · $32k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • AT
    ALLIANCE TO SAVE ENERGY
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -50%
  • LC
    LA COUNTY FEDERATION OF LABOR AFL-CIO COUNCIL ON POLITICAL EDUCATION
    one grant, 2018 · $40k
  • SI
    SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $32k · revenue +43%

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
Cincinnati Afl-Cio Labor Council

The mission of the afl-cio is to improve the lives of working families, to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our nation.

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2
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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3
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations

The organization is a federation of labor unions. its mission is to improve the lives of working families - to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our nation.

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4
American Federation of Labor

The mission of the nd afl-cio is to improve the lives of working families - to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our state and nation.

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5
Washington State Labor Council Afl-Cio

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

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6
Nebraska State Afl-Cio

Labor relations

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7
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organization

To assist in organizing the unorganized workers in mississippi.

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8
American Federation of Labor & Alameda Labor Council

To protect, maintain, and advance the interests of all working people in its territory; to secure legislation in the interest of the working people; to promote the formation of a committee on political education; to promote recognition and…

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9
Indiana State Afl-Cio

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

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10
Oklahoma State Afl-Cio

Promote labor unions

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11
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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12
American Federation of Labor&Congress of Industrial Orgs Napa&Solano

Labor organization

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pennsylvania Afl-Cio and the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. 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 backsteadyPregnancy Support ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Youth Sports ProgramsCancer Support ServicesCommunity FoundationsUnited Way AffiliatesHealth Access Advocacy and …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 63 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%8%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr13%10%35–55yr16%50%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%5%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%32%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr13%6%35–55yr16%31%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/54
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,511

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

43 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. 43 of the 54 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/43
Grantees still filing
21/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

New Jersey State AFL-CIO COPE — $76,700 · OtherNew Jersey State AFL-CIO COPEWISCONSIN STATE AFL-CIO — $50,000 · OtherWISCONSIN STATE AFL-CIOLA COUNTY FEDERATION OF LABOR AFL-CIO COUNCIL ON POLITICAL EDUCATION — $40,000 · OtherLA COUNTY FEDERATION OF LABOR AFL-CIO COUNCIL ON…NEW YORK STATE AFL-CIO — $32,400 · OtherAMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR & CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGS - AK — $30,000 · OtherTN AFL-CIO LABOR COUNCIL — $28,525 · OtherSAVE KANSAS COALITION INC — $25,000 · OtherFAIR SHOT TEXAS ACTION FUND — $30,000 · OtherAlliance for Global Justice Corp — $34,500 · OtherSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC — $31,887 · Other+27 more — $296,841 · Other+27 moreKANSAS VALUES INSTITUTE — $340,000 · Community ImprovementKANSAS VALUES INSTITUTESTEELWORKERS CHARITABLE AND EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATION — $197,339 · EmploymentSTEELWORKERS CH…TENNESSEE WORKERS ALLIANCE — $10,000 · Employment+1 more — $7,000 · EmploymentPEGGY BROWNING FUND — $109,000 · EducationPEGGY BRO…Pittsburgh Chapter National Football League Players Assoc — $10,000 · EducationPittsburg…University of Illinois Foundation — $10,000 · EducationUniversit…James A Rhodes State College Foundation — $5,050 · EducationMARCH OF DIMES INC — $30,380 · HealthGO GOGO FOUNDATION CORP — $20,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $19,500 · HealthNorthwest Autism Center — $7,036 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $5,500 · HealthALLIANCE TO SAVE ENERGY — $50,000 · EnvironmentUNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE — $19,050 · EnvironmentNATIONAL COLLEGE PLAYERS ASSOCIATION — $59,500 · Recreation & SportsCENTER FOR HOPE — $5,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$675,853Community Improvement$340,000Employment$214,339Education$134,050Health$82,416Environment$69,050Recreation & Sports$65,000

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 budgetKANSAS VALUES INSTITUTE — $340,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetSTEELWORKERS CHARITABLE AND EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATION — $197,339 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetPEGGY BROWNING FUND — $109,000 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetNew Jersey State AFL-CIO COPE — $76,700 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetNATIONAL COLLEGE PLAYERS ASSOCIATION — $59,500 over 6y, 6.1% of budgetWISCONSIN STATE AFL-CIO — $50,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetALLIANCE TO SAVE ENERGY — $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAlliance for Global Justice Corp — $34,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNEW YORK STATE AFL-CIO — $32,400 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC — $31,887 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC — $30,380 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFAIR SHOT TEXAS ACTION FUND — $30,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR & CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGS - AK — $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTN AFL-CIO LABOR COUNCIL — $28,525 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSAVE KANSAS COALITION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetVariety the Childrens Charity — $20,850 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetGO GOGO FOUNDATION CORP — $20,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $19,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE — $19,050 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWisconsin Alliance for Retired Americans Inc — $18,000 over 3y, 9.7% of budgetWORK ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL OF NEW JERSEY INC — $17,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetMONTANA STATE AFL-CIO — $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetGREATER KANSAS CITY LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIO — $13,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetALLEGHENY COUNTY LABOR COUNCIL — $12,400 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetLABOR & ENERGY ALLIANCE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES COUNTY FEDERATION OF LABOR AFL-CIO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR & CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGS — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGREATER KANSAS CITY BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION TRADES — $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTENNESSEE WORKERS ALLIANCE — $10,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR OHIO AFL-CIO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LABOR GUILD OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC — $10,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetUNITED STEEL PAPER AND FORESTRY RUBBER MANUFACTURING ENERGY ALLIED — $9,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BEAVER COUNTY — $7,360 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNorthwest Autism Center — $7,036 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWORKERS DEFENSE LEAGUE INC — $7,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetKANSAS AFL-CIO — $6,050 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCENTER FOR HOPE — $5,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKENTUCKY STATE AFL-CIO — $5,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA AFL-CIO — $5,485 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJames A Rhodes State College Foundation — $5,050 over 1y, 1.5% 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…United Steel Paper an…International Brother…United Association of…Pipefitters Associati…International Brother…Sixteen Thirty FundFidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio ClcDC21.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc · United Steel Paper and Forestry Rubber Manufacturing Energy Allied · International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers · United Association of Journeymen & Apprentices of the Plumbing & Pipe · Pipefitters Association Local Union 533 · International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union No 5 · Sixteen Thirty Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Steelworkers Intl Group Return 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 · 20%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Work Environment Council of New Jersey Inc — 13% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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
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.

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 54 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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