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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.

$155k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its 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, FY2022 to 2024.

Employment$64kCivil Rights$40kHealth$36kCommunity Improvement$20kEducation$15kPublic Benefit$15kMembership Benefit$8k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $100,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $155,380 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $55,380 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 · $8k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $93k
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WE ARE LABOR IE PAC$20,000
PROGRESSIVE MARYLAND LIBERATION ALLIANCE 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
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DC HISPANIC CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION: $20k → 14%DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $13k → 13%PARENTS FOR GREAT SCHOOLS: $15k → 12%STEAMFITTERS LOCAL 602: $9k → 11%DC JOBS WITH JUSTICE: $13k → 14%DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $13k → 13%LOCAL 602 COMMUNICATION & PRODUCTIVITY FUND: $8k → 11%WE ARE LABOR IE PAC: $20k → 14%DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%CMRAVE: $10k → 14%JOBS WITH JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND: $25k → 14%NABTU CONFERENCE FUND: $8k → 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.
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 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
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 606

The Union and its employees work for the benefit of its membership including negotiations of wages, benefits, and working conditions.

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2
The Connecticut Construction Industries Association Inc

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.…

Employment
3
Local Union #601 of Ua of Journeymen & Apprentices of the Plumbing & Pf Ind

A union to organize employees, service and maintain wages, hours, working conditions and other economic advantages.

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4
United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices for the Plumbing and Pipef

The local union acts as the collective bargaining agent for its members

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5
Az State Bldg & Construction Trades

to work together with construction related trades labor unions to advance member goals in areas of marketing, organizing, and promotion of labor unions

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6
International Union of Operating Engineers Local 624

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…

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7
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 342

Labor union representing the electrical worker force

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8
United Association of Journeymen &

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.

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9
Laborers International Union of 341 Hcl

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…

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10
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union 640

Labor Organizing

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11
Construction and Public Employees Liuna Local #177

Operation of laborers local union for the benefit of its members.

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12
International Union of Operating Engineers Local 825ABCDRRH

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Steamfitters Local Union No 602; 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.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WE ARE LABOR IE PAC: $20,000 · OtherWE ARE LABOR IE PACPROGRESSIVE MARYLAND LIBERATION ALLIANCE PAC: $20,000 · OtherPROGRESSIVE MARYLAND LIBERATION ALLIANCE PACPARENTS FOR GREAT SCHOOLS: $15,000 · OtherPARENTS FOR GREAT SCHOOLSBALTIMORE FORWARD: $15,000 · OtherBALTIMORE FORWARDSTEAMFITTERS LOCAL UNION NO 602: $8,769 · OtherSTEAMFITTERS LOCAL UNION NO 602LOCAL NO 602 COMMUNICATION AND PRODUCTIVITY FUND: $7,500 · OtherLOCAL NO 602 COMMUNICATION AND PRODUCTIVITY FUNDBUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION TRADES DEPARTMENT AFL-CIO: $7,500 · OtherBUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION TRADES DEPARTMENT AFL-CIODIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $35,500 · HealthDIABETES RESEARCH IN…Jobs with Justice Education Fund: $25,000 · EmploymentJobs with Justice Ed…CENTER FOR MILITARY RECRUITMENT ASSESSMENT AND VETERANS EMPLOYMENT: $10,000 · EmploymentCENTER FOR MILITARY …DC HISPANIC CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 · Community ImprovementDC HISPANIC…Jobs with Justice: $12,500 · Civil Rights
Other$93,769Health$35,500Employment$35,000Community Improvement$20,000Civil Rights$12,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $35,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJobs with Justice Education Fund: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDC HISPANIC CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetJobs with Justice: $12,500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCENTER FOR MILITARY RECRUITMENT ASSESSMENT AND VETERANS EMPLOYMENT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTEAMFITTERS LOCAL UNION NO 602: $8,769 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOCAL NO 602 COMMUNICATION AND PRODUCTIVITY FUND: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION TRADES DEPARTMENT AFL-CIO: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

International Union o…
International Union of Painters and Allied TradesMD13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: International Union of Painters and Allied Trades

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 Baltimore-Dc Metro Building and Construction Trades Council funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Baltimore-Dc Metro Building and Construction Trades Council. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%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
    3get no government money at all
    2report 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, FY20–25
    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 12 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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