· Public charity
Baltimore-Dc Metro Building and Construction Trades Council
The objective of the BALTIMORE-DC METRO BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION TRADES COUNCIL are to enlist the voluntary cooperation and support of every eligible local union to the end that wage scales and desirable working conditions may be established and maintained in the building industry.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of BALTIMORE-DC METRO BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION TRADES COUNCIL’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $100,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $155,380 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $55,380 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $93k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PROGRESSIVE MARYLAND LIBERATION ALLIANCE PAC | $20,000 |
| WE ARE LABOR IE PAC | $20,000 |
| BALTIMORE FORWARD | $15,000 |
| PARENTS FOR GREAT SCHOOLS | $15,000 |
| DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| CMRAVE | $10,000 |
| NABTU CONFERENCE FUND | $7,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The Union and its employees work for the benefit of its membership including negotiations of wages, benefits, and working conditions.
All activities conducted by the association are to enable it to:a. establish a better understanding between the members and companies in the construction and related industries.b. foster reasonable and just regulations by governments c.…
A union to organize employees, service and maintain wages, hours, working conditions and other economic advantages.
The local union acts as the collective bargaining agent for its members
to work together with construction related trades labor unions to advance member goals in areas of marketing, organizing, and promotion of labor unions
The organization is a trade union that represents operating engineers, who work as heavy equipment operators, mechanics,and surveyors in the construction industry, and stationary engineers, who work in operations and maintenance in…
Labor union representing the electrical worker force
To protect the rights of all its members; to secure improved wages, hours and working conditions and other economic advances through organization, negotiations and collective bargaining.
Union hall devoted to the betterment of members compensation and working conditions, to secure recognition of workers rights to engage in collective bargaining, and to promote the development and maintenance of on-the-job safety practices…
Labor Organizing
Operation of laborers local union for the benefit of its members.
The work of the union, as the representative of its members, is to provide for the continuous employment of labor, to bring about stable conditions in the industry, and to establish necessary procedures for resolutions of disputes between…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Steamfitters Local Union No 602 and the most unlike its peers is Diabetes Research Institute Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 12 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Jobs with Justice Education Fund ↗
- Who funds DC HISPANIC CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Jobs with Justice ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR MILITARY RECRUITMENT ASSESSMENT AND VETERANS EMPLOYMENT ↗
- Who funds STEAMFITTERS LOCAL UNION NO 602 ↗
- Who funds LOCAL NO 602 COMMUNICATION AND PRODUCTIVITY FUND ↗
- Who funds BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION TRADES DEPARTMENT AFL-CIO ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: International Union of Painters and Allied Trades
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Baltimore-Dc Metro Building and Construction Trades Council funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.