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CHICAGO JOURNEYMEN PLUMBERS' LOCAL UNION 130 UA

CHICAGO JOURNEYMEN PLUMBERS' LOCAL UNION 130 UA (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $207,750 to it, the largest being PLUMBERS LOCAL 130 UA RETIREES' CLUB ($200,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$25M
Revenue FY2025
2
Funders on record
$208k
Grants received
$30M
Net assets
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%

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 ($14M) Expenses 100 ($12M) Net assets 100 ($20M)2018 Revenue 113 ($15M) Expenses 113 ($14M) Net assets 106 ($21M)2019 Revenue 134 ($18M) Expenses 125 ($16M) Net assets 120 ($24M)2020 Revenue 126 ($17M) Expenses 138 ($17M) Net assets 85 ($17M)2021 Revenue 128 ($17M) Expenses 135 ($17M) Net assets 88 ($18M)2022 Revenue 146 ($20M) Expenses 172 ($21M) Net assets 81 ($16M)2023 Revenue 158 ($22M) Expenses 148 ($18M) Net assets 97 ($19M)2024 Revenue 178 ($24M) Expenses 158 ($20M) Net assets 121 ($24M)2025 Revenue 181 ($25M) Expenses 154 ($19M) Net assets 149 ($30M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (181)Expenses (154)Net assets (149)

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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2024 0% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.2M
17
$1.3M
18
$2.8M
19
$16k
20
$703k
21
$1.4M
22
$3.2M
23
$4.6M
24
$5.6M
25
3.7
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $8k → $200k.

From the IRS filings of CHICAGO JOURNEYMEN PLUMBERS' LOCAL UNION 130 UA’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 JOURNEYMEN PLUMBERS' LOCAL UNION 130 UA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 JOURNEYMEN PLUMBERS' LOCAL UNION 130 UA.

96%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100%broadly stable.

“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.

Where its funders are

100% of CHICAGO JOURNEYMEN PLUMBERS' LOCAL UNION 130 UA's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL

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

21
22
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.

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 JOURNEYMEN PLUMBERS' LOCAL UNION 130 UA

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

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Governance

6
board members
0%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Political Fund-Chicago Journeymen Plumbers' Local 130 Ua · exempt
  • Union Parking LLC · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHICAGO JOURNEYMEN PLUMBERS' LOCAL UNION 130 UA: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds CHICAGO JOURNEYMEN PLUMBERS' LOCAL UNION 130 UA?
CHICAGO JOURNEYMEN PLUMBERS' LOCAL UNION 130 UA (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $207,750 to it, the largest being PLUMBERS LOCAL 130 UA RETIREES' CLUB ($200,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CHICAGO JOURNEYMEN PLUMBERS' LOCAL UNION 130 UA have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $207,750 in grants to CHICAGO JOURNEYMEN PLUMBERS' LOCAL UNION 130 UA.
Who is the largest funder of CHICAGO JOURNEYMEN PLUMBERS' LOCAL UNION 130 UA?
PLUMBERS LOCAL 130 UA RETIREES' CLUB is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHICAGO JOURNEYMEN PLUMBERS' LOCAL UNION 130 UA 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2funders 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