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Construction Industry Advancement Fund for Southern California at a glance

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Construction Industry Advancement Fund for Southern California

Advancement of construction industry

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$296k
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.

Crime & Legal$3.4MEmployment$2.4MEnvironment$1.3MCivil Rights$1.1MEducation$522kScience & Tech$61k
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $144k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $592k
  • $250k+1 grant · $296k
$49,181
Median grant
1
States reached
$295k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AGC LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM$296,004
BUILDING INDUSTRY LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION$158,053
AGC CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION FOUNDATION$146,135
SCCA LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM$84,561
CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY FORCE ACCOUNT COUNCIL$76,000
CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY COALITION FOR WATER QUALITY$73,150
CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY AIR QUALITY COALITION$54,530
UCON LEGISLAIVE PROGRAM$49,181
CRIME PREVENTION PROGRAM OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$38,000
AGC THE ROAD INFORMATION PROGRAM$15,000
SCCA SCHOLARSHIP FUND$14,809
UCON INDUSTRY RELATIONS$14,777
UCON PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT$12,006
SCCA MARKETING OUTREACH$9,857
SCCA CONSTRUCTION UNIVERSITY$8,300
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BUILDING INDUSTRY LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION: $172k → 10%SCCA LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM: $243k → 14%AGC LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM: $328k → 16%BUILDING INDUSTRY LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION: $168k → 10%SCCA LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM: $190k → 14%AGC LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM: $311k → 16%BIA FOR BUILDING INDUSTRY LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION: $158k → 10%SCCA LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM: $165k → 14%AGC LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM: $296k → 16%BUILDING INDUSTRY LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION: $158k → 10%SCCA LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM: $165k → 14%AGC LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM: $264k → 16%BUILDING INDUSTRY LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION: $145k → 10%SCCA LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM: $94k → 14%AGC LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM: $250k → 16%BUILDING INDUSTRY LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION: $112k → 10%SCCA LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM: $85k → 14%AGC LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM: $228k → 16%BUILDING INDUSTRY LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION: $108k → 10%SCCA LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM: $78k → 14%AGC LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM: $228k → 16%BIA FOR BUILDING INDUSTRY LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION: $104k → 10%AGC LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM: $208k → 16%BIA BLDG IND LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION: $90k → 10%AGC CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $206k → 16%CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY FORCE ACCOUNT COUNCIL: $107k → 9%AGC CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $196k → 16%CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY FORCE ACCOUNT COUNCIL: $91k → 9%AGC LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM: $185k → 16%CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY FORCE ACCOUNT COUNCIL: $90k → 9%AGC CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $174k → 16%CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY FORCE ACCOUNT COUNCIL: $90k → 9%AGC CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $146k → 16%CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY FORCE ACCOUNT COUNCIL: $90k → 9%AGC CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $132k → 16%CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY FORCE ACCOUNT COUNCIL: $81k → 9%AGC CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $132k → 16%CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY FORCE ACCOUNT COUNCIL: $76k → 9%AGC CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $128k → 16%AGC CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $83k → 16%AGC WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM: $80k → 16%CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY COALITION FOR WATER QUALITY: $134k → 14%CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY COALITION FOR WATER QUALITY: $104k → 14%CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY COALITION FOR WATER QUALITY: $104k → 14%CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY COALITION FOR WATER QUALITY: $104k → 14%CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY COALITION FOR WATER QUALITY: $102k → 14%CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY COALITION FOR WATER QUALITY: $79k → 14%CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY AIR QUALITY COALITION: $76k → 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.9M · 12 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
1

Total granted

$9.9M
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+19%

Still filing today

83%
100%

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
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

  • AG
    ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF CALIFORNIA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $3.7M · revenue +73%
  • SC
    SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +51%
  • CI
    CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY COALITION ON WATER QUALITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $837k · revenue +23% · 32% of their budget

Funded once

  • TC
    TRANSPORTATION CALIFORNIA
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +19%
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
Construction Industry Employers Association Inc

The purpose of the association is to represent its members in the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements with representatives of labor, providing for terms and conditions of employment and the administration of grievances. in…

Community Improvement
2
Los Angelesorange Counties Building and Construction Trades Council

To organize, increase collective bargaining support and publicize labor issues related to the construction industry within los angeles and orange counties.

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3
Careers in Construction Sw Washington
Recreation & Sports
4
American Council of Engineering Companies of California

To strengthen California's engineering and surveying business to build a better California.

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5
Associated Builders & Contractors Oklahoma Chapter

To promote the advancement of the construction industry and free enterprise

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6
Construction Employers Association of North Central Wv Inc

Negotiation between employers & unions.

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7
Fair Contracting Alliance

Fair contracting alliance (fca) is committed to promoting the improvement of business conditions and fair contracting standards in the construction industry both public and private, on behalf of taxpayers, workers, owners, contractors, and…

Community Improvement
8
Construction Users Roundtable

The purpose of the construction users roundtable (curt) is to promote cost effectiveness in the construction industry by providing aggressive leadership on issues that significantly improve project engineering, maintenance and construction…

Community Improvement
9
Afl-Cio So Nv Building & Construction Trades Council

The southern nevada building and construction trades councils primary purpose is to communicate to affiliated unions on labor issues, assist with organizing & strive for the use of project

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10
Housing Contractors of California

To advance and protect the welfare of trade contractors, suppliers, and related businesses and to represent the position of the trade contractor industry in the California legislative, political, judicial, and regulatory arenas.

Community Improvement
11
National Association of Minority Contractors Northern California

Empowering Minority Contractors and advocating for them in the construction industry.

Community Improvement
12
California Business Properties Association

To inform california legislators and regulators of concerns to commercial property owners and to inform its members of legislative and regulatory actions.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Construction Industry Force Account Council; the most unlike its peers is Futureports. 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

11 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. 11 of the 13 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF CALIFORNIA INC: $3,679,840 · OtherASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF CALIFORNIA INCSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION: $1,534,686 · OtherSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATIONBUILDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF SO CA INC: $1,214,162 · OtherBUILDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF SO CA INCCONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY FORCE ACCOUNT COUNCIL: $771,782 · OtherCONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY FORCE ACCOUNT COUNCILCONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY AIR QUALITY COALT: $608,743 · OtherCONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY AIR QUALITY COALTENGINEERING CONTRACTORS' ASSOCIATIO: $547,004 · OtherENGINEERING CONTRACTORS' ASSOCIATIOCRIME PREVENTION PROGRAM: $300,328 · Other+4 more: $282,736 · OtherCONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY COALITION ON WATER QUALITY: $837,230 · Community ImprovementCONSTRUCTI…FUTUREPORTS: $90,000 · Community ImprovementFUTUREPORT…
Other$8,939,281Community Improvement$927,230

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 budgetASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF CALIFORNIA INC: $3,679,840 over 9y, 6.9% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION: $1,534,686 over 9y, 16% of budgetBUILDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF SO CA INC: $1,214,162 over 9y, 3.2% of budgetCONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY COALITION ON WATER QUALITY: $837,230 over 9y, 32% of budgetCONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY FORCE ACCOUNT COUNCIL: $771,782 over 9y, 8.2% of budgetCONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY AIR QUALITY COALT: $608,743 over 9y, 30% of budgetENGINEERING CONTRACTORS' ASSOCIATIO: $547,004 over 7y, 9.9% of budgetCRIME PREVENTION PROGRAM: $300,328 over 9y, 19% of budgetENGINEERING & UTILITY CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION DBA UNITED CONTRACTORS: $215,718 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetFUTUREPORTS: $90,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetTRANSPORTATION CALIFORNIA: $15,000 over 1y, 2.2% 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.

  • Who funds ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF CALIFORNIA INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds BUILDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF SO CA INC ↗
  • Who funds CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY COALITION ON WATER QUALITY ↗
  • Who funds CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY FORCE ACCOUNT COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY AIR QUALITY COALT ↗
  • Who funds ENGINEERING CONTRACTORS' ASSOCIATIO ↗
  • Who funds CRIME PREVENTION PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds ENGINEERING & UTILITY CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION DBA UNITED CONTRACTORS ↗
  • Who funds FUTUREPORTS ↗
  • Who funds TRANSPORTATION CALIFORNIA ↗

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 Construction Industry Advancement Fund for Southern California funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Construction Industry Advancement Fund for Southern California. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 13 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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