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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 FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$150k
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 2025.

Employment$1.5MPublic Benefit$455kEducation$73kCivil Rights$55kScience & Tech$55kPhilanthropy$38kHealth$35kInternational$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $190,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $433,755 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $243,755 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 · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
$17,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR FAIR CONTRACTING$150,000
PLAN FOR THE SETTLEMENT OF JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES$17,500
DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION$12,500
TVTLC-TVA LABOR MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE$10,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY18–21, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $50k → 17%CCAI: $5k → 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

NY
MA
PA
NJ
NE
VA
MD
TN
DC
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 9 repeat orgs$202k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
19

Total granted

$1.9M
$202k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+21%

Still filing today

78%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEmploymentPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesHealthOther
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

  • NA
    NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR FAIR CONTRACTING
    7× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +56% · 39% of their budget
  • CF
    CENTER FOR MILITARY RECRUITMENT ASSESSMENT AND VETERANS EMPLOYMENT
    4× · 2018–2022 · $50k · revenue +38%
  • DR
    DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2018–2025 · $35k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • NU
    NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -19%
  • SC
    SOUTHERN COMPANY - NORTH AMERICA'S BUILDING TRADES UNIONS LMCC TRUST
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue -30%
  • AF
    Americans for Financial Reform
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
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
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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2
Construction Legal Rights Foundation

To protect the fundamental rights of all employers, users, and employees to work and participate equally in the free enterprise system without fear of violence, intimidation or discrimination as guaranteed to such employers, users, and…

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3
Laborers International Union of Na Sewer and Tunnel Miners Union Local 2

Secure fair compensation and working conditions for all members.

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4
Laborers International Union of State of Mi

Collective bargaining and representation

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5
Laborer's International Union of North a

A fraternal labor organization whose purpose is to promote employment of members in a safe work environment and ensurefair labor practices.

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6
Laborers International Union of North America - Local 1076

The local is a nonprofit organization established to represent its members in wage and fringe benefits matters in the construction industry. the local's primary areas of jurisdiction are oakland and livingston counties.

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7
Eastern Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters

Labor union maintaining and improving the benefit and working conditions of members engaged in the carpentry trade.

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8
The Laborers Northwest Regional Organizing Coalition

The northwest regional organizing coalition (nroc) is established and exists to increase union participation in the industries in which the laborers' international union of north america (liuna!) currently represents workers. it is nroc's…

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9
American Fed of Labor & Congress

Provide educational information to members on related labor issues

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10
American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Orgs

To organize all workers for the economic, moral and social advancement of their condition and status.

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11
Laborers International Union of North America Local 872

To provide continuous employment, collectively bargain for improvement of working conditions and wages.

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12
American Federation of Labor & Bldg & Construction Trades Council

To create a better working environment for the construction industry and its members.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marine Toys for Tots Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Hoops for Youth Foundation. 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

25 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. 25 of the 30 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
14/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR FAIR CONTRACTING: $1,050,000 · EmploymentNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR FAIR CONTRACTINGFOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTING - MID-ATLANTIC REGION: $145,000 · EmploymentFOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTING - MID-ATLANTIC REGIONCENTER FOR MILITARY RECRUITMENT ASSESSMENT AND VETERANS EMPLOYMENT: $50,000 · EmploymentPOLITICAL EDUCATION FUND OF THE BCTD NON-FEDERAL: $455,000 · OtherPOLITICAL EDUCATION FUND OF THE BCTD…PLAN FOR THE SETTLEMENT OF JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES: $140,000 · OtherPLAN FOR THE SETTLEMENT OF JURISDICT…TVTLCTVA LABOR MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE: $40,000 · OtherTVTLCTVA LABOR MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE+9 more: $82,645 · Other+9 morePresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $65,000 · EducationTHE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF BALTIMORE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $20,026 · EducationSHEET METAL WORKERS' INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $8,000 · EducationPEGGY BROWNING FUND: $5,000 · EducationAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY COLLEGES: $5,000 · EducationTHE LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesCONGRESSIONAL COALITION ON ADOPTION INSTITUTE: $5,000 · Human ServicesDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · HealthHealing Emergency Aid Response Team 911: $11,000 · PhilanthropyHoops For Youth Foundation: $10,000 · PhilanthropyMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropySOUTHERN COMPANY - NORTH AMERICA'S BUILDING TRADES UNIONS LMCC TRUST: $20,000 · Community ImprovementTVA PROJECT LABOR-MANAGEMENT COOPERATION COMMITTEE TRUST: $10,000 · Community ImprovementBoy Scouts of America 92 Atlanta Area Council: $5,000 · Youth Development
Employment$1,245,000Other$717,645Education$108,026Human Services$55,000Health$35,000Philanthropy$31,000Community Improvement$30,000Youth Development$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR FAIR CONTRACTING: $1,050,000 over 7y, 39% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTING - MID-ATLANTIC REGION: $145,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetPLAN FOR THE SETTLEMENT OF JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES: $140,000 over 5y, 71% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $65,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR MILITARY RECRUITMENT ASSESSMENT AND VETERANS EMPLOYMENT: $50,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmericans for Financial Reform: $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS): $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHealing Emergency Aid Response Team 911: $11,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetLABORERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTVA PROJECT LABOR-MANAGEMENT COOPERATION COMMITTEE TRUST: $10,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetHoops For Youth Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHEET METAL WORKERS' INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $8,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBoy Scouts of America 92 Atlanta Area Council: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEGGY BROWNING FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY COLLEGES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOBS WITH JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL COALITION ON ADOPTION INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMaryland Assn of Nonpublic Special Education Faci: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

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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 Building and Construction Trades Department Afl-Cio funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Building and Construction Trades Department Afl-Cio. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 30 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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