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LABORERS INTERNATIONAL UNION LOCAL 4

LABORERS INTERNATIONAL UNION LOCAL 4 (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $900,000 to it, the largest being GREAT LAKES REGION ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ($900,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$4.0M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$900k
Net assets
$18M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Laborers International Union Local 4 does

Mission

Improvement of Workers Conditions, wages and benefits

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Improvement of condition, wages and benefits for 1364 members

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.

02The 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 ($3.3M) Expenses 100 ($2.3M) Net assets 100 ($12M)2018 Revenue 106 ($3.5M) Expenses 103 ($2.4M) Net assets 110 ($13M)2019 Revenue 104 ($3.5M) Expenses 111 ($2.5M) Net assets 117 ($14M)2020 Revenue 94 ($3.1M) Expenses 106 ($2.4M) Net assets 123 ($15M)2021 Revenue 115 ($3.8M) Expenses 114 ($2.6M) Net assets 134 ($16M)2022 Revenue 86 ($2.9M) Expenses 124 ($2.8M) Net assets 134 ($16M)2023 Revenue 108 ($3.6M) Expenses 127 ($2.9M) Net assets 140 ($17M)2024 Revenue 120 ($4.0M) Expenses 129 ($2.9M) Net assets 149 ($18M)
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Revenue (120)Expenses (129)Net assets (149)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $15M to $16M (+8%).

$12M
$13M
$14M
$15M
$16M
$16M
$17M
$18M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.1M
’17
$1.2M
’18
$944k
’19
$716k
’20
$1.2M
’21
$47k
’22
$729k
’23
$1.0M
’24
6.1
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

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Listed1111121210111111
Joined·+1+1+1+1+2+0+1
No longer listed·1013101
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $100k.

Funder
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'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of LABORERS INTERNATIONAL UNION LOCAL 4’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.

Where its funders are

100% of LABORERS INTERNATIONAL UNION LOCAL 4's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL

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

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’18
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’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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like LABORERS INTERNATIONAL UNION LOCAL 4

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

In Illinois

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

7
board members
0%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LABORERS INTERNATIONAL UNION LOCAL 4: 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 LABORERS INTERNATIONAL UNION LOCAL 4?
LABORERS INTERNATIONAL UNION LOCAL 4 (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $900,000 to it, the largest being GREAT LAKES REGION ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ($900,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LABORERS INTERNATIONAL UNION LOCAL 4 have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $900,000 in grants to LABORERS INTERNATIONAL UNION LOCAL 4, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LABORERS INTERNATIONAL UNION LOCAL 4?
GREAT LAKES REGION ORGANIZING COMMITTEE is the largest funder on record, with $900,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LABORERS INTERNATIONAL UNION LOCAL 4 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.

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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 1 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing