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CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL UNION COUNCIL

CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL UNION COUNCIL (Illinois) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,529,754 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF PAINTERS & ALLIED TRADES DISTRICT COUNCIL #14 ($218,900). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$4.4M
Revenue FY2024
22
Funders on record
$1.5M
Grants received
$4.7M
Net assets
14/22 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($4.2M) Expenses 100 ($4.4M) Net assets 100 ($1.7M)2018 Revenue 93 ($3.9M) Expenses 84 ($3.7M) Net assets 104 ($1.7M)2019 Revenue 114 ($4.7M) Expenses 101 ($4.4M) Net assets 147 ($2.5M)2020 Revenue 85 ($3.6M) Expenses 82 ($3.6M) Net assets 162 ($2.7M)2021 Revenue 111 ($4.6M) Expenses 90 ($4.0M) Net assets 233 ($3.9M)2022 Revenue 119 ($5.0M) Expenses 96 ($4.2M) Net assets 240 ($4.0M)2023 Revenue 92 ($3.8M) Expenses 102 ($4.5M) Net assets 180 ($3.0M)2024 Revenue 106 ($4.4M) Expenses 96 ($4.2M) Net assets 283 ($4.7M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (106)Expenses (96)Net assets (283)

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$244k
’17
$192k
’18
$302k
’19
−$87k
’20
$661k
’21
$751k
’22
−$681k
’23
$193k
’24
0.2
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $102k → $156k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
See Forward Fund Incunclassified
$5k
funders
7
5
10
10
12
12
10
9
7

Left out of every figure on this page: $1.3M from 8 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Labor Management Union Carpentry Cooperation Promotion Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL UNION COUNCIL raised.

From the IRS filings of CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL UNION COUNCIL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 21 of 22 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL UNION COUNCIL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL UNION COUNCIL.

14%
largest funder
38%
top three
~12
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 29% · 2019 20% · 2020 16% · 2021 26% · 2022 36% · 2023 18% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

60% of CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL UNION COUNCIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

97% of CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL UNION COUNCIL's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL
MA
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 22 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL UNION COUNCIL

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Illinois

St Louis-Kansas City Carpenters Regional Council83%Liuna Chicagoland Laborers' District Council Training and Apprentice Fund83%Laborers' International Union Local 109283%American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations83%Laborers' Int'L Union of North America District Council of Chicago82%Downstate Illinios Laborers District Cou81%Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce81%American Federation of Teachers Illinois State Federation81%

Nationally

St Louis Labor Council Afl-Cio85%St Louis-Kansas City Carpenters Regional Council83%Liuna Chicagoland Laborers' District Council Training and Apprentice Fund83%Laborers' International Union Local 109283%Los Angeles County Federation of Labor Afl-Cio83%American Federation of Labor & Alameda Labor Council83%Connecticut Laborers' District Council83%American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations83%
04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Governance

27
board members
96%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Chicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative · exempt
  • Cfl & Iuc Cook County Labor PAC · exempt
  • Employees Trust Fund of the Chicago Federation of Labor and Iuc · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL UNION COUNCIL: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL UNION COUNCIL?
CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL UNION COUNCIL (Illinois) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,529,754 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF PAINTERS & ALLIED TRADES DISTRICT COUNCIL #14 ($218,900). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL UNION COUNCIL have?
IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,529,754 in grants to CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL UNION COUNCIL, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL UNION COUNCIL?
INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF PAINTERS & ALLIED TRADES DISTRICT COUNCIL #14 is the largest funder on record, with $218,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL UNION COUNCIL find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 22funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing