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Wisconsin Laborers' District Council

To protect and improve the lives of its members through family supporting wages and benefits, as well as through programs and services designed to make its members the safest, most skilled and productive workers in the laborers industry.

$513k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
4
Itemized grants FY2025
8
Organizations funded FY2024
38%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$487k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$400,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 8
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$8.0M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Wisconsin Laborers' District Council funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $350k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

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Civil RightsEducationPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving4$487k0%
FY20248$1.1M38%
FY20237$1.0M43%
FY20227$1.1M14%
FY20215$88k20%
FY20208$374kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Civil Rights$2.8MPublic Benefit$1.3MEnvironment$53kEmployment$40kPhilanthropy$30kYouth Development$20kEducation$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
A Better Wisconsin Together Inc$2,525,000615%
Alliance for Common Sense$750,0002n/a
Law Forward Inc$250,00046%
Project 72 Wi Inc$200,00013%
Power to the Polls Inc$100,00013%
Wisconsin Progress Inc$95,00058%
Wisconsin State Afl-Cio$65,02532%
Fair Rates for Wisconsin's Dairyland Inc$53,000510%
Wisconsin Values Inc$50,000117%
Wisconsin Opportunity Coalition Inc$50,00012%
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All grantees of Wisconsin Laborers' District Council by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
A Better Wisconsin Together Inc$2,525,000615%
Alliance for Common Sense$750,0002n/a
Law Forward Inc$250,00046%
Project 72 Wi Inc$200,00013%
Power to the Polls Inc$100,00013%
Wisconsin Progress Inc$95,00058%
Wisconsin State Afl-Cio$65,02532%
Fair Rates for Wisconsin's Dairyland Inc$53,000510%
Wisconsin Values Inc$50,000117%
Wisconsin Opportunity Coalition Inc$50,00012%
Terence J O'Sullivan Liuna Charitable Foundation$30,00021%
Wisconsin Alliance for Retired Americans Inc$27,900414%
Boys and Girls Club of Dane County$20,0001n/a
Wisconsin Freedom Alliance$12,5001n/a
Madison Public Schools Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Wisconsin Regional Training Partnership$10,00010%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wisconsin Laborers' District Council supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetA Better Wisconsin Together Inc: $2,525,000 over 6y, 15% of budgetLaw Forward Inc: $250,000 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetProject 72 Wi Inc: $200,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetPower to the Polls Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetWisconsin Progress Inc: $95,000 over 5y, 8.2% of budgetWisconsin State Afl-Cio: $65,025 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetFair Rates for Wisconsin's Dairyland Inc: $53,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetWisconsin Values Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetWisconsin Opportunity Coalition Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTerence J O'Sullivan Liuna Charitable Foundation: $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWisconsin Alliance for Retired Americans Inc: $27,900 over 4y, 14% of budgetMadison Public Schools Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWisconsin Regional Training Partnership: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Together Wisconsin Acts IncWI15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Together Wisconsin Acts Inc · Wisconsin Infrastructure Investment Now Inc · America Votes

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.

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About Wisconsin Laborers' District Council

How much does Wisconsin Laborers' District Council give?
Wisconsin Laborers' District Council reported 4 itemized grants totaling $487,000, out of $512,953 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 8 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Wisconsin Laborers' District Council fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (67%), Public Benefit (30%), Environment (1%).
Who are Wisconsin Laborers' District Council's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: A Better Wisconsin Together Inc ($2.5M), Alliance for Common Sense ($750k), Law Forward Inc ($250k).
Does Wisconsin Laborers' District Council fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Wisconsin Laborers' District Council?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Together Wisconsin Acts Inc, Wisconsin Infrastructure Investment Now Inc, America Votes.
Where is Wisconsin Laborers' District Council based?
Wisconsin Laborers' District Council is based in WI.

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 16 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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