Connecticut · Nonprofit
UNITE HERE 217 LOCAL
UNITE HERE 217 LOCAL (Connecticut) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,069,703 to it, the largest being Unite Here ($1,054,203). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- United Food and Commercial Workers International Unionshared fundersportfolio match
- American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizationsshared fundersportfolio match
- Great Lakes Region Organizing Committeeportfolio 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.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 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. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $354k → $13k.
From the IRS filings of UNITE HERE 217 LOCAL’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
UNITE HERE 217 LOCAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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 UNITE HERE 217 LOCAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 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
UNITE HERE 217 LOCAL draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 2 states in all.
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.
- United Food and Commercial Workers International Unionshared fundersportfolio matchDC · backs 25 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizationsshared fundersportfolio matchDC · backs 17 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Great Lakes Region Organizing Committeeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Office and Professional Employees International Unionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Midwest Region Organizing Committeeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Association of Journeymen & Apprentices of the Plumbing & Pipeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Operating Engineers National Charity Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Neca-Ibew National Labor-Management Cooperation Committee Trust Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- International Assn of Bridge Structural Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Joint Council of Teamsters No 28portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Laborers Employers Cooperation and Education Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- International Brotherhood of Teamstersshared fundersDC · backs 21 organizations that share your funders
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 UNITE HERE 217 LOCAL
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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Unite Here · exempt
- Local 217 PAC Fund · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITE HERE 217 LOCAL: 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 UNITE HERE 217 LOCAL?
- UNITE HERE 217 LOCAL (Connecticut) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,069,703 to it, the largest being Unite Here ($1,054,203). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITE HERE 217 LOCAL have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $1,069,703 in grants to UNITE HERE 217 LOCAL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITE HERE 217 LOCAL?
- Unite Here is the largest funder on record, with $1,054,203 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITE HERE 217 LOCAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 3funders 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