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Wisconsin Laborers' District Council at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· 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.

$513k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$400k
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.

Civil Rights$2.8MPublic Benefit$1.3MEnvironment$53kEmployment$40kPhilanthropy$30kYouth Development$20kEducation$10k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $487,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $512,953 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $25,953 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

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $37k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $400k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 30% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ALLIANCE FOR COMMON SENSE: $500k → 14%WISCONSIN OPPORTUNITY COALITION INC: $50k → 10%WISCONSIN FREEDOM ALLIANCE INC: $13k → 15%WISCONSIN REGIONAL TRAINING CENTER PARTNERSHIP: $10k → 17%ALLIANCE FOR COMMON SENSE: $250k → 14%A BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INC: $700k → 10%PROJECT 72 INC: $200k → 17%LABORERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%A BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INC: $700k → 10%WISCONSIN STATE AFL-CIO: $30k → 17%LABORERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%A BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INC: $450k → 10%WI STATE AFL-CIO: $25k → 17%A BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INC: $400k → 10%WISCONSIN PROGRESS INC: $25k → 17%A BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INC: $225k → 10%WISCONSIN PROGRESS INC: $15k → 17%WISCONSIN VALUES: $50k → 10%WISCONSIN PROGRESS INC: $15k → 17%A BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INC: $50k → 10%WI State AFL-CIO: $10k → 17%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY: $20k → 10%WI ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS: $9k → 17%SCHOOLS MAKE MADISON: $10k → 10%WI ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS: $7k → 17%WI ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS: $6k → 17%WI ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS: $6k → 17%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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.8M · 8 repeat orgs$453k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
8

Total granted

$3.8M
$453k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
0%

Still filing today

88%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Civil RightsCrime & LegalEnvironmentPhilanthropyEducationOther
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

  • AB
    A BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +62%
  • LF
    LAW FORWARD INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $250k · revenue +182%
  • WP
    WISCONSIN PROGRESS INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $95k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • P7
    PROJECT 72 WI INC
    one grant, 2024 · $200k
  • PT
    POWER TO THE POLLS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
  • WV
    WISCONSIN VALUES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $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
Wisconsin Progress Institute Inc

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.

Education
2
Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit
3
Our Wisconsin Revolution Inc

To promote the common good and general welfare of the people of wisconsin.

Civil Rights
4
Wisconsin Principles Inc

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…

Civil Rights
5
One Wisconsin Now Inc

To advance progressive values, ideas and policies through research, policy, networking, advocacy and public education.

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6
Working for Wisconsin Inc

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.

Employment
7
Citizen Action of Wisconsin Inc

Citizen action of wisconsin - an issue-focused coalition of individuals and organizations committed to achieving racial, social, economic, and environmental justice

—
8
Wisconsin Alliance for Reform Inc

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…

—
9
Wisconsin Rural Opportunities Inc

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.

—
10
Empower Wisconsin Foundation Inc

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…

—
11
Together Wisconsin Acts Inc

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…

Health
12
Wisconsineye Public Affairs Network Inc

To keep state residents educated and informed, in a nonpartisan manner, on a broad range of wisconsin public issues and policy matters.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wisconsin Opportunity Coalition Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 16 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
5/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

A BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INC: $2,525,000 · Civil RightsA BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INCPROJECT 72 WI INC: $200,000 · Civil RightsPROJECT 72 WI INCPOWER TO THE POLLS INC: $100,000 · Civil Rights+3 more: $172,900 · Civil Rights+3 moreALLIANCE FOR COMMON SENSE: $750,000 · OtherALLIANCE FOR COMMON SENS…WISCONSIN STATE AFL-CIO: $65,025 · OtherWISCONSIN STATE AFL-CIOWISCONSIN VALUES INC: $50,000 · OtherWISCONSIN VALUES INC+3 more: $62,500 · Other+3 moreLAW FORWARD INC: $250,000 · Crime & LegalFAIR RATES FOR WISCONSIN'S DAIRYLAND INC: $53,000 · EnvironmentMADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationWISCONSIN REGIONAL TRAINING PARTNERSHIP: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Civil Rights$2,997,900Other$927,525Crime & Legal$250,000Environment$53,000Education$10,000Philanthropy$10,000

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

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

Together Wisconsin Ac…Wisconsin Infrastruct…America Votes
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Wisconsin Laborers' District Council funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wisconsin Laborers' District Council. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 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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