Who are Building and Construction Trades Department Afl-Cio's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: National Alliance for Fair Contracting ($1.1M), Political Education Fund of the Bctd Non-Federal ($455k), Foundation for Fair Contracting - Mid-Atlantic Region ($145k).

Does Building and Construction Trades Department Afl-Cio fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Building and Construction Trades Department Afl-Cio?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.

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Washington, D.C. · Public charity

Building and Construction Trades Department Afl-Cio

The organization's primary exempt purpose includes coordinating and harmonizing the activities of its affiliated unions, promoting the development of all building and construction trades unions, fostering and developing the organization of building and construction tradespersons and the training of related apprentices, promoting the…

$434k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 4
Itemized grants FY2025: 6
Organizations funded FY2024: 50%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $190k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $17,500
Largest grant, FY2025: $150,000
Organizations funded a year: 2 to 12; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 3
Total assets, FY2025: $22M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Building and Construction Trades Department Afl-Cio funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEmploymentHealthOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	4	$190k	0%
FY2024	6	$235k	50%
FY2023	2	$378k	0%
FY2022	9	$464k	67%
FY2021	2	$200k	50%
FY2020	6	$45k	50%
FY2019	6	$80k	33%
FY2018	12	$245k	83%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Employment$1.5MPublic Benefit$455kEducation$73kCivil Rights$55kScience & Tech$55kPhilanthropy$38kHealth$35kInternational$15kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
National Alliance for Fair Contracting	$1,050,000	7	39%
Political Education Fund of the Bctd Non-Federal	$455,000	2	n/a
Foundation for Fair Contracting - Mid-Atlantic Region	$145,000	2	29%
Plan for the Settlement of Jurisdictional Disputes	$140,000	5	71%
National Urban League Inc	$50,000	1	0%
Center for Military Recruitment Assessment and Veterans Employment	$50,000	4	1%
Tvtlctva Labor Management Conference	$40,000	4	n/a
Diabetes Research Institute Foundation Inc	$35,000	3	0%
The Education Foundation of Baltimore County Public Schools Inc	$20,026	2	n/a
Southern Company - North America's Building Trades Unions Lmcc Trust	$20,000	1	n/a

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All grantees of Building and Construction Trades Department Afl-Cio by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
National Alliance for Fair Contracting	$1,050,000	7	39%
Political Education Fund of the Bctd Non-Federal	$455,000	2	n/a
Foundation for Fair Contracting - Mid-Atlantic Region	$145,000	2	29%
Plan for the Settlement of Jurisdictional Disputes	$140,000	5	71%
National Urban League Inc	$50,000	1	0%
Center for Military Recruitment Assessment and Veterans Employment	$50,000	4	1%
Tvtlctva Labor Management Conference	$40,000	4	n/a
Diabetes Research Institute Foundation Inc	$35,000	3	0%
The Education Foundation of Baltimore County Public Schools Inc	$20,026	2	n/a
Southern Company - North America's Building Trades Unions Lmcc Trust	$20,000	1	n/a
Americans for Financial Reform	$15,000	1	1%
Healing Emergency Aid Response Team 911	$11,000	1	2%
Laborers' International Union of North America	$10,000	1	0%
Tva Project Labor-Management Cooperation Committee Trust	$10,000	1	6%
Hoops For Youth Foundation	$10,000	2	16%
Marine Toys for Tots Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
Sheet Metal Workers' International Scholarship Fund	$8,000	1	1%
Cecelia Dougherty Trust Fund	$7,500	1	n/a
Boy Scouts of America 92 Atlanta Area Council	$5,000	1	0%
National Association of Minority Contractors Washington DC Metropol	$5,000	1	n/a
Peggy Browning Fund	$5,000	1	1%
American Association of Community Colleges	$5,000	1	0%
Jobs With Justice Education Fund	$5,000	1	2%
Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute	$5,000	1	1%
Maryland Assn of Nonpublic Special Education Faci	$5,000	1	1%
The Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation	$5,000	1	0%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($20k), not named here.

Building and Construction Trades Department Afl-Cio supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA2.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Building and Construction Trades Department Afl-Cio

How much does Building and Construction Trades Department Afl-Cio give?: Building and Construction Trades Department Afl-Cio reported 4 itemized grants totaling $190,000, out of $433,755 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Building and Construction Trades Department Afl-Cio fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Employment (65%), Public Benefit (20%), Education (3%).
Who are Building and Construction Trades Department Afl-Cio's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: National Alliance for Fair Contracting ($1.1M), Political Education Fund of the Bctd Non-Federal ($455k), Foundation for Fair Contracting - Mid-Atlantic Region ($145k).
Does Building and Construction Trades Department Afl-Cio fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Building and Construction Trades Department Afl-Cio?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Building and Construction Trades Department Afl-Cio based?: Building and Construction Trades Department Afl-Cio is based in DC.