Wisconsin · Nonprofit
LOCAL UNION 159 OF THE INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS
LOCAL UNION 159 OF THE INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $60,000 to it, the largest being NECA-IBEW NATIONAL LABOR-MANAGEMENT COOPERATION COMMITTEE TRUST FUND ($60,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.5M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $60k
- Net assets
- $10M
What Local Union 159 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers does
Mission
None.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Local Union 159 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, madison, wisconsin promotes the organized electrical construction industry within the jurisdiction of the local union. The union helps contractors be more competitive in order to keep its members employed. The union currently serves about 1,600 members in south central wisconsin.
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $8.8M to $10M (+16%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of LOCAL UNION 159 OF THE INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS’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
LOCAL UNION 159 OF THE INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 1 state in all.
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.
Organizations like LOCAL UNION 159 OF THE INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS
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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LOCAL UNION 159 OF THE INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS?
- LOCAL UNION 159 OF THE INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $60,000 to it, the largest being NECA-IBEW NATIONAL LABOR-MANAGEMENT COOPERATION COMMITTEE TRUST FUND ($60,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LOCAL UNION 159 OF THE INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $60,000 in grants to LOCAL UNION 159 OF THE INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOCAL UNION 159 OF THE INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS?
- NECA-IBEW NATIONAL LABOR-MANAGEMENT COOPERATION COMMITTEE TRUST FUND is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOCAL UNION 159 OF THE INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 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