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Washington and Northern Idaho District Council of Laborers at a glance

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Washington and Northern Idaho District Council of Laborers

To provide unity of action in dealing with union goals.

$254k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Public Benefit$180kRecreation & Sports$156kCommunity Improvement$115kEducation$98kEmployment$76kEnvironment$60kHuman Services$10kHealth$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $121,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $253,965 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $132,965 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LPK Racing Levi Kuntz$60,000
Northwest Reg Org Coalition$25,000
W Vernie Reed Scholarship Fd$20,000
WA Business Alliance Fund$10,000
WA CLUB CHARITY GOLF CLASSIC$6,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LIUANA Charitable Foundation: $11k → 14%WA CLUB CHARITY GOLF CLASSIC: $8k → 8%RMB Racing: $13k → 9%Mike Jensen Racing: $20k → 9%Partnership Energy Progress: $50k → 9%NUCA of Washington: $10k → 9%Tristan Cassidy: $13k → 11%LIUANA Charitable Foundation: $10k → 14%WA CLUB CHARITY GOLF CLASSIC: $6k → 8%Keep Washington Rolling: $50k → 9%Partners for Energy Progress: $25k → 9%LPK Racing Levi Kuntz: $60k → 9%Partners for Energy Progress: $25k → 9%LPK Racing Levi Kuntz: $40k → 9%WA Business Alliance Fund: $10k → 9%LPK Racing Levi Kuntz: $30k → 9%LPK Racing Levi Kuntz: $13k → 9%ChangeWorks NW: $10k → 9%Harborview Health for All: $10k → 9%Yes on Vets and Human Service: $10k → 9%The Truman Fund: $75k → 9%Puget Sound Sage: $8k → 9%Northwest Reg Org Coalition: $30k → 9%Northwest Reg Org Coalition: $25k → 9%Northwest Delegate Fund: $20k → 9%LiUNA Northwest Regional Offc: $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.

47%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$379k · 6 repeat orgs$428k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 4 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

6
15

Total granted

$379k
$418k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+102%

Still filing today

83%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementSocial ScienceEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • LR
    LPK Racing Levi Kuntz
    4× · 2022–2025 · $143k
  • WV
    W Vernie Reed Memorial Fund
    7× · 2018–2025 · $98k · revenue +583%
  • TL
    THE LABORERS NORTHWEST REGIONAL ORGANIZING COALITION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $55k · revenue -4%

Funded once

  • TC
    THURSTON COUNTY CHAMBER FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $95k · revenue +102%
  • TT
    The Truman Fund
    one grant, 2017 · $75k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
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
Nw Energy Coalition

The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of over 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, plus many individual members. The NW Energy…

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2
Afl-Cio Snohomish & Island County Labor Council

Member, affiliate, and community education for worker's issues - union and non-union

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3
Laborers International Union of North America Local Union No 242

Serving the greater seattle area, the union is committed to working on behalf of their members with the main goal of making the quality of life better for them and their families.

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4
Washington State Building & Construction Trades Council

The council's mission is to further protect the rights of members of the building and constructions trades industry in the state of washington.

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5
Emergency Management Group - Washington
Public Safety & Disaster
6
Laborers International Union of Na Great Plains Laborers' District Council

Provide assistance to member locals with all union related activities.

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7
Laborers' Int'l Union of North America District Council of Chicago

To promote unity of action in dealing with employers and to coordinate and consolidate the activities of its various affiliated local unions so they can work in a harmonious and united way.

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8
Washington Fair Trade Coalition

Working for a fair global trading system

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9
Laborers International Union of North America Local Union 44

Provide benefits of union membership

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10
Nw Laborers United

To hold title to property, collecting income therefrom, and turning over the entire amount thereof, less expenses, to laborers international union of north america local union no. 242.

Community Improvement
11
Laborers International Union of North America

Represents its members when dealing with the state of Delaware and other employment related matters.

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12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Laborers Northwest Regional Organizing Coalition; the most unlike its peers is Citizens for Better Transportation. 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

10 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. 10 of the 22 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LPK Racing Levi Kuntz: $142,500 · OtherLPK Racing Levi KuntzW Vernie Reed Memorial Fund: $97,500 · OtherW Vernie Reed Memorial FundTHURSTON COUNTY CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $95,000 · OtherTHURSTON COUNTY CHAMBER FOUNDATIONThe Truman Fund: $75,000 · OtherThe Truman FundTHE LABORERS NORTHWEST REGIONAL ORGANIZING COALITION: $55,000 · OtherTHE LABORERS NORTHWEST REGIONAL ORGANIZING COALITIONIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCitizens for Better Transportation: $50,000 · OtherCitizens for Better TransportationNo on I-2117: $25,000 · Other+9 more: $126,000 · Other+9 morePARTNERS FOR ENERGY PROGESS: $50,000 · EnvironmentUTILITY CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION OF WA: $10,000 · Community ImprovementWASHINGTON BUSINESS ALLIANCE FUND: $10,000 · Community ImprovementWASHINGTON C L U B CHARITY GOLF CLASSIC co Quest Investment Management LLC: $13,500 · Youth DevelopmentPUGET SOUND SAGE: $7,500 · Social Science
Other$716,000Environment$50,000Community Improvement$20,000Youth Development$13,500Social Science$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetW Vernie Reed Memorial Fund: $97,500 over 7y, 8.0% of budgetTHURSTON COUNTY CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $95,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetTHE LABORERS NORTHWEST REGIONAL ORGANIZING COALITION: $55,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPARTNERS FOR ENERGY PROGESS: $50,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetLABORERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA: $20,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON C L U B CHARITY GOLF CLASSIC co Quest Investment Management LLC: $13,500 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetUTILITY CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION OF WA: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPUGET SOUND SAGE: $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

Laborers Internationa…
Laborers International Union of North America Local Union No 242WA13.6× 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 Washington and Northern Idaho District Council of Laborers funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Washington and Northern Idaho District Council of Laborers. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%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
    1get no government money at all
    2report 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.
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    Find your warmest path to Washington and Northern Idaho District Council of Laborers 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 22 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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