Chicago Federation of Labor Workforce
Chicago, IL · EIN 36-3977262. Reported 81 grants totalling $5,223,492 to 55 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Chicago Federation of Labor Workforce, the IRS classifies it under employment rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE J20) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 55 distinct organizations, with 22% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 36% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $15,117. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $54,729; the smallest was $5,120 and the largest $466,587. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
31 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $1,948,161 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating Engineers Local 150 Apprenticeship Fund | Wilmington, IL | $1,139,348 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Northern Illinois Electrical Joint Apprenticeship and Training Trust | Rockford, IL | $1,072,454 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| International Union of Operating Engineers Lcl 399 Ed Training Fund | Chicago, IL | $809,350 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers | Tinley Park, IL | $325,012 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ibew Local 9 Apprenticeship | Tinley Park, IL | $188,060 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| International Alliance Theatrical Stage Employees & Moving Picture M | Chicago, IL | $175,578 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Mechanics Local 701 Training Fund | Carol Stream, IL | $138,708 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| International Union of Operating Engineers Local 399 | Chicago, IL | $127,972 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Iya Foods | Naperville, IL | $100,084 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Choose Chicago Foundation | Chicago, IL | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Chicago & Vicinity Laborers | Carol Stream, IL | $92,226 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Iron Workers One Apprentice Training Fund Trust | Forest Park, IL | $72,644 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Liuna Chicagoland Laborers Tf | Chicago, IL | $72,518 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Architectural Metal Trainee Sch Inc for Loc 63 & Iron Leag of Chic Inc | Broadview, IL | $66,171 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Illinois Economic Policy Institute | Countryside, IL | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Climate Pros LLC | Glendale Heights, IL | $42,003 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Reynolds Consumer Products | Lake Forest, IL | $33,917 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Special Olympics Illinois | Normal, IL | $31,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Juneteenth Illinois Inc Nfp | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Meade Electric Inc | Willowbrook, IL | $27,570 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| American Federation of Musicians of the US & Canada | Chicago, IL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Equality Illinois | Chicago, IL | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Spider Company | Machesney Park, IL | $24,093 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Chicago Jobs With Justice | Chicago, IL | $24,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Machinery Movers Riggers & Mach Erectors Union 136 | Broadview, IL | $23,067 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Power Construction Company LLC | Chicago, IL | $22,675 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hydac Technology Corp | Glendale Heights, IL | $22,427 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mj Electric | Glen Ellyn, IL | $21,382 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Civic Consulting Alliance | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Illinois Institute of Technology | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Reader Institute for Community Journalism Inc | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sweeney Classic | Countryside, IL | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| HIRE360 | Chicago, IL | $18,200 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Service Employees International Union Local 1 Training Fund | Chicago, IL | $17,379 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Butcher Hydraulics | Elgin, IL | $17,345 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Mac Plastics Manufacturing | Olney, IL | $16,786 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Fresenius Kabi USA LLC | Melrose, IL | $15,117 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Sos Childrens Village USA Inc | Washington, DC | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Super Appliance Man | Chicago, IL | $13,422 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| J&a Elite Construction | Alsip, IL | $13,233 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Navy Pier Inc | Chicago, IL | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Aldridge Electric Inc | Libertyville, IL | $10,178 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cook County Health Foundation | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Irish Fellowship Educational & Cultural Foundation | Western Springs, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jesse White Foundation Ltd | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Laborers District Council & Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc | Burr Ridge, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| New Covenant Community Development | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Push for Excellence Inc | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| People United to Serve Humanity | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| St Mary of the Lake Seminary | Mundelein, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sedwall Manufacturing | Saint Charles, IL | $9,900 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Aurora Specialty Textiles Group | Yorkville, IL | $9,835 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Saturday Place | Chicago, IL | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| John Burns Construction Company | Orland Park, IL | $5,718 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| International Filter Manufacturing | Litchfield, IL | $5,120 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
19 of 55 (35%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Electrical Joint Apprenticeship & Training Trust
DCEO Subgrantee for Training Assistance - Iuoe Local 150 Apprenticeship Fund
DECO SUBGRANTEE FOR TRAINING ASSISTANCE - Chicago Federation of Musicians
GENERAL CONTRIBUTION OF SUPPORT
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 21 of 55 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 4 | $57,000 | $11,000 |
| 2021 | 22 | $1,330,865 | $14,269 |
| 2022 | 24 | $1,887,466 | $17,694 |
| 2023 | 31 | $1,948,161 | $13,233 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
100% of its giving went to organizations in Illinois. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $15,117 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Illinois.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Chicago Federation of Labor Workforce's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 13 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 18 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 2540 S State Street, Chicago, IL, 60616.
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