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Associated Builders and Contractors Inc

Abc's mission is the advancement of the merit shop construction philosophy, which encourages open competition and a free enterprise approach that awards contracts based solely on merit, regardless of labor affiliation.

$2.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$950k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Civil Rights$7.2MCommunity Improvement$1.8MEmployment$389kEducation$200kYouth Development$116kArts & Culture$70kMembership Benefit$49kPublic Safety & Disaster$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $2,415,111, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,554,555 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $139,444 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $43k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $468k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.9M
$77,090
Median grant
9
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONSTRUCTION LEGAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION$949,550
FREE ENTERPRISE ALLIANCE$949,550
ABC - CENTRAL FLORIDA CHAPTER$150,000
ABC - EMPIRE STATE CHAPTER$120,000
ABC - GREATER TENNESSEE$77,090
ABC - NEW ORLEANSBAYOU CHPT$68,379
ABC - METRO WASHINGTON CHPT$52,042
ACE MENTOR PROGRAM$25,000
ABC - OKLAHOMA CHAPTER$17,500
ABC-SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN CHAPTER$6,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ABC - CORNHUSKER CHAPTER: $15k → 13%ABC EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $10k → 7%METAL BUILDINGS INSTITUTE: $25k → 11%ABC CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA CHAPTER: $45k → 16%ACE MENTOR PROGRAM: $25k → 22%ABC - EMPIRE STATE CHAPTER: $120k → 14%ABC - CENTRAL TEXAS CHAPTER: $22k → 10%ABC - GREATER HOUSTON: $10k → 16%ABC - NEW MEXICO CHAPTER: $25k → 14%ABC - OKLAHOMA CHAPTER: $18k → 15%CONSTRUCTION LEGAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION: $1.1M → 14%ABC - CENTRAL FLORIDA CHAPTER: $150k → 13%ABC-SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN CHAPTER: $85k → 8%ABC OF MICHIGAN: $50k → 16%ABC - ALABAMA CHAPTER: $99k → 16%ABC - HEART OF AMERICAN CHAPTER: $25k → 15%ABC - GREATER TENNESSEE: $77k → 14%ABC RHODE ISLAND CHAPTER: $27k → 14%ABC - UTAH CHAPTER: $30k → 6%SALLY SPENCER-THOMAS LLC: $20k → 7%ABC - OHIO VALLEY CHAPTER: $10k → 6%ABC - CENTRAL OHIO: $13k → 15%ABC - ILLINOIS CHAPTER: $79k → 11%ABC - NEW ORLEANSBAYOU CHPT: $68k → 11%ABC - METRO WASHINGTON CHPT: $52k → 11%GRIT LEADS TO GREATNESS LLC: $41k → 13%ABC - NEW HAMPSHIREVERMONT: $15k → 7%ACE MENTOR PROGRAM: $25k → 22%ABC - CENTRAL TEXAS CHAPTER: $17k → 10%CONSTRUCTION LEGAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION: $999k → 14%ABC - ALABAMA CHAPTER: $51k → 16%ABC - GREATER TENNESSEE: $16k → 14%ABC - ILLINOIS: $48k → 11%ACE MENTOR PROGRAM: $25k → 22%CONSTRUCTION LEGAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION: $950k → 14%ABC - ALABAMA: $15k → 16%ABC - ILLINOIS CHAPTER: $27k → 11%ACE MENTOR PROGRAM: $25k → 22%FREE ENTERPRISE ALLIANCE: $950k → 14%POWER UP: $50k → 16%ACE MENTOR PROGRAM: $25k → 22%CONSTRUCTION LEGAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION: $946k → 14%ACE MENTOR PROGRAM: $25k → 22%CONSTRUCTION LEGAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION: $878k → 14%ACE MENTOR PROGRAM: $25k → 22%CONSTRUCTION LEGAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION: $818k → 14%CONSTRUCTION LEGAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION: $789k → 14%CONSTRUCTION LEGAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION: $779k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
MI
NY
OR
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
NM
AR
TN
NC
DC
OK
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.1M · 11 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
24

Total granted

$8.1M
$477k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+32%

Still filing today

100%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationEmploymentHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CL
    CONSTRUCTION LEGAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $7.2M · revenue +61% · 88% of their budget
  • AB
    ASSOCIATED BUILDERS & CONTRACTORS OF ALABAMA INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $165k · revenue +61%
  • AB
    ASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS ILLINOIS CHAPTER INC
    4× · 2019–2023 · $162k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • AB
    ASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS
    one grant, 2023 · $66k · revenue +5%
  • PU
    POWER UP INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +89% · 94% of their budget
  • AB
    ASSOCIATED BUILDERS & CONTRACTORS INC CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA CHAPTER
    one grant, 2018 · $45k · revenue -48%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Associated Builders & Contractors - Greater Michigan Chapter

ABC/Greater Michigan chapter is the publicly recognized leader in the construction industry. We support our members' success by providing technologically advanced assistance in the areas of education, business, and workforce development.…

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2
Associated Builders & Contractors Inc

Promote and protect the merit shop philosophy and the principles of the free enterprise system in the construction industry.

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3
Associated Builders & Contractors of Louisiana Incorporated

To promote and protect the merit shop philosophy and the principles of the free enterprise system in the construction industry.

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4
Associated Builders and Contractors Inc

Abc's mission is the advancement of the merit shop construction philosophy, which encourages open competition and a free enterprise approach that awards contracts based solely on merit, regardless of labor affiliation.

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5
Associated Builders & Contractors Inc Massachusetts Chapter

None

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6
Associated Builders and Contractors Inc

Connecticut associated builders and contractors is the recognized advocate and defender of merit shop contractors and addresses the unique challenges of our members.

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7
Assoc Builders & Contractors of Indiana

Promote the building and contracting trade.

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8
Associated Builders & Contractors of Southern California

Sponsor or participate in certification and other training programs in the construction industry for the benefit of employees of its participating employer members.to promote fair and open competition through premier education and training…

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9
American Council for Construction Education Inc

The mission of ACCE is to be a leading advocate of quality construction programs and to promote, support, and accredit quality construction education programs in colleges and universities.

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10
Associated Builders and Contractors of San Diego Inc

Operate as a construction industry service organization and promote the general and individual welfare of contractors, subcontractors, and employees of construction contractors and subcontractors.

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11
Associated Builders and Contractors Craft Training Trust of Baltimore

To provide training to individuals to expand their knowledge of the construction industry.

Employment
12
Allied Construction Industries Cincinnati

Aci's mission is to grow the cincinnati region's commercial construction industry.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Associated Builders & Contractors New Orleans - Bayou Chapter; the most unlike its peers is Power Up Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 41 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/38
Grantees still filing
28/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONSTRUCTION LEGAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION: $7,216,908 · OtherCONSTRUCTION LEGAL RIGHTS FOUNDATIONFREE ENTERPRISE ALLIANCE: $949,550 · OtherFREE ENTERPRISE ALLIANCE+32 more: $1,440,576 · Other+32 moreACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF AMERICA INC: $175,000 · EducationPOWER UP INC: $50,000 · EducationMETAL BUILDINGS INSTITUTE: $25,000 · Education+1 more: $5,778 · EducationMETROPOLITAN WASHINGTON CHAPTER ASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS INC: $52,042 · EmploymentMID COAST CONSTRUCTION ACADEMY TRUST: $8,950 · EmploymentCONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY ALLIANCE FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $10,000 · Health
Other$9,607,034Education$255,778Employment$60,992Health$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCONSTRUCTION LEGAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION: $7,216,908 over 8y, 88% of budgetACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF AMERICA INC: $175,000 over 7y, 41% of budgetASSOCIATED BUILDERS & CONTRACTORS OF ALABAMA INC: $164,943 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS ILLINOIS CHAPTER INC: $161,771 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetCENTRAL FLORIDA CHAPTER ASSOCIATED BUILDERS & CONTRACTORS INC: $150,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS INC: $120,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetASSOC BUILDERS & CONTRACTORS OF SE MICHIGAN: $98,500 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetGREATER TENNESSEE CHAPTER ASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS INC: $92,595 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetAssociated Builders & Contractors of MI: $70,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetASSOCIATED BUILDERS & CONTRACTORS NEW ORLEANS - BAYOU CHAPTER: $68,379 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS: $66,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetMETROPOLITAN WASHINGTON CHAPTER ASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS INC: $52,042 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPOWER UP INC: $50,000 over 1y, 94% of budgetASSOCIATED BUILDERS & CONTRACTORS INC CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA CHAPTER: $45,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetASSOCIATED BUILDERS & CONTRACTORS CENTRAL TEXAS CHAPTER I: $39,082 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetTHE NM CHAPTER OF ASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS INC: $30,400 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetASSOCIATED BUILDERS & CONTRACTORS UTAH CHAPTER: $29,998 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetAssociated Builders & Contractors of Greater Houston: $28,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS OF RHODE ISLAND INC: $26,671 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetHEART OF AMERICA CHAPTER ASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetMETAL BUILDINGS INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetPACIFIC NORTHWEST CHAPTER OF ASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS INC: $21,675 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetAssociated Builders & Contractors Oklahoma Chapter: $17,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetASSOCIATED BUILDERS & CONTRACTORS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetASSOCIATED BUILDERS & CONTRACTORS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetASSOCIATED BUILDERS & CONTRACTORS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetASSOCIATED BUILDERS & CONTRACTORS CENTRAL OHIO CHAPTER: $12,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetASSOCIATED BUILDERS & CONTRACTORS INC VIRGINIA CHAPTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS EASTERN PA CHAPTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY ALLIANCE FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $10,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS OHIO VALLEY CHAPTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAssociated Builders and Contractors Carolinas Chapter: $8,807 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS ARKANSAS INC: $8,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetASSOCIATED BUILDERS & CONTRACTORS OF GA: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetASSOCIATED BUILDERS & CONTRACTORS OF SOUTH TEXAS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetABC INSTITUTE INC: $5,778 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Associated Builders and Contractors Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Associated Builders and Contractors Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 41 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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