Illinois · Nonprofit
FIGHT BACK FUND
FIGHT BACK FUND (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $435,000 to it, the largest being LABORERS' DISTRICT COUNCIL LABOR- MANAGEMENT COOPERATION COMMITTEE ($200,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FIGHT BACK FUND's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,550 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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.
- Wisconsin Laborers' District Councilshared funders
- American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizationsportfolio match
- United Steelworkers Intl Group Returnportfolio match
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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.
100% of FIGHT BACK FUND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (15% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2019: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $35k → $100k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $5.7M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Midwest Operating Engineers Construction Industry & Service Trust Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money FIGHT BACK FUND raised.
From the IRS filings of FIGHT BACK FUND’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
FIGHT BACK FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 FIGHT BACK FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 71% · 2019 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
77% of FIGHT BACK FUND's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
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.
- Wisconsin Laborers' District Councilshared fundersWI · backs 5 organizations that share your funders
- American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizationsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Steelworkers Intl Group Returnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- International Assn of Bridge Structural Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Grand Lodge International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Nurses Unitedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Office and Professional Employees International Unionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Food and Commercial Workers International Unionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Mine Workers of Americaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Laborers' International Union of North Americaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- International Union of Painters and Allied Tradesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of Americaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 FIGHT BACK FUND
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Local 150 Iuoe · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FIGHT BACK FUND: 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.
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 FIGHT BACK FUND?
- FIGHT BACK FUND (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $435,000 to it, the largest being LABORERS' DISTRICT COUNCIL LABOR- MANAGEMENT COOPERATION COMMITTEE ($200,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FIGHT BACK FUND have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $435,000 in grants to FIGHT BACK FUND.
- Who is the largest funder of FIGHT BACK FUND?
- LABORERS' DISTRICT COUNCIL LABOR- MANAGEMENT COOPERATION COMMITTEE 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 FIGHT BACK FUND 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 5funders 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