· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $487,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $512,953 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $25,953 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 · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $37k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| A BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INC | $400,000 |
| LAW FORWARD INC | $50,000 |
| Wisconsin Progress | $25,000 |
| FAIR RATES FOR WISCONSIN'S DAIRYLAND INC | $12,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 30% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +4% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- LFLAW FORWARD INC4× · 2020–2025 · $250k · revenue +182%
- WPWISCONSIN PROGRESS INC5× · 2020–2025 · $95k · revenue +63%
- FRFAIR RATES FOR WISCONSIN'S DAIRYLAND INC5× · 2020–2025 · $53k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- P7PROJECT 72 WI INCone grant, 2024 · $200k
- PTPOWER TO THE POLLS INCone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
- WOWISCONSIN OPPORTUNITY COALITION INCone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Wisconsin progress institute exists to empower wisconsin's locally elected leaders with the tools, training, and support they need to be effective, values-driven public servants.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
To promote the common good and general welfare of the people of wisconsin.
Wisconsin principles (wp) is a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization dedicated to preserving conservative values in the state of wisconsin. committed to fiscal conservatism, educational choice, and individual liberty, we strive to empower…
To advance progressive values, ideas and policies through research, policy, networking, advocacy and public education.
To promote social welfare including but not limited to informing the public and policymakers on the importance of wisconsin's construction work to the state's economy, the vitality of its communities, and the lives of its citizens.
Citizen action of wisconsin - an issue-focused coalition of individuals and organizations committed to achieving racial, social, economic, and environmental justice
Informing and educating Wisconsin citizens about public policies that promote strong families, create jobs and economic opportunity, limit government, reduce the tax burden on citizens and provide safe communities for every Wisconsin…
To foster the vitality of rural wisconsin, primarily through the promotion of education, improvement of health care services, cultural experiences, and support of the rural economic base.
Empower Wisconsin Foundation's mission is to educate both the public and leaders of grassroots initiatives on criminal justice reform, educational choice, limited government, freedom of speech, transparency in government and private…
Together wisconsin acts, inc. (twa) advocates for legislation, regulations and government programs to maintain and improve the common good, quality of life, and social welfare of the people in the state of wisconsin. twa activities include…
To keep state residents educated and informed, in a nonpartisan manner, on a broad range of wisconsin public issues and policy matters.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wisconsin Opportunity Coalition Inc and the most unlike its peers is Terence J O'sullivan Liuna Charitable Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 16 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds A BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds LAW FORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT 72 WI INC ↗
- Who funds POWER TO THE POLLS INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN PROGRESS INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN STATE AFL-CIO ↗
- Who funds FAIR RATES FOR WISCONSIN'S DAIRYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN OPPORTUNITY COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN VALUES INC ↗
- Who funds TERENCE J O'SULLIVAN LIUNA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Wisconsin Alliance for Retired Americans Inc ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN FREEDOM ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds MADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN REGIONAL TRAINING PARTNERSHIP ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Together Wisconsin Acts Inc · Wisconsin Infrastructure Investment Now Inc · America Votes
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 Wisconsin Laborers' District Council 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.
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.