· Public charity
Cpwr the Center for Construction Research and Training
To carry out research, training and other related services in the construction industry, with a focus on occupational safety, health, and working conditions.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 83% of CPWR THE CENTER FOR CONSTRUCTION RESEARCH AND TRAINING’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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $2.3M
- $250k+3 grants · $4.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ZENITH AME SOLUTION | $4,299,057 |
| NATIONAL IRONWORKERS | $330,652 |
| INSULATION INDUSTRY | $280,793 |
| UNIV OF MASS-LOWELL | $237,781 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIV OF CA | $211,666 |
| WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY | $209,872 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE | $207,428 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $194,473 |
| HANFORD MISSION INTEGRATION SOLUTIONS LLC | $175,634 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $170,606 |
| JOBTRAIN | $158,039 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO | $144,469 |
| BUILDING PATHWAYS INC | $141,018 |
| FINISHING TRADES INSTITUTE | $132,994 |
| GST MICHIGAN WORKS | $121,127 |
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 28% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $176k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- NINATIONAL IRONWORKERS AND EMPLOYERS APPRENTICESHIP TRAINING AND JOURNEYMAN UPGRAD6× · 2020–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +64%
- IIINSULATION INDUSTRY'S INTERNATIONAL APPRENTICE & TRAINING FUND6× · 2020–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +65%
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +16%
Funded once
- FTFINISHING TRADES INSTITUTE OF DISTRICT COUNCIL 10one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $90k · revenue +63%- CSCentral South Carpenters Regional Council Training Fund of Louisianaone grant, 2020 · $83k · revenue +9%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Apprentice training for members of the painters union district council 1m.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The trust provides apprentice and journeyman training programs to participants in the painting, drywall, floor covering, glaziers, and sign painter/paint makers industries.
Ranken technical college is a private, non-profit, degree-granting institution of higher learning whose primary mission is to provide the comprehensive education and training necessary to prepare students for employment and advancement in…
Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)
Apprenticeship and training program.
Apprenticeship and journeymen training fund
To provide distinctive and relevant education in an environment of scientific, technological, and professional knowledge creation and innovation.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide educational services, see schedule o.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Professional trade education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Pittsburgh and the most unlike its peers is Central South Carpenters Regional Council Training Fund of Louisiana. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 55 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
19 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. 19 of the 45 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 NATIONAL IRONWORKERS AND EMPLOYERS APPRENTICESHIP TRAINING AND JOURNEYMAN UPGRAD ↗
- Who funds INSULATION INDUSTRY'S INTERNATIONAL APPRENTICE & TRAINING FUND ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JOBTRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds IUPAT - FINISHING TRADES INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BUILDING PATHWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL TRAINING INSTITUTE FOR THE SHEET METAL & AIR CONDITIONING INDUSTRY ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL SOUTH CARPENTERS & MILLWRIGHTS TRAINING TRUST FUND ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FINISHING TRADES INSTITUTE OF DISTRICT COUNCIL 10 ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Central South Carpenters Regional Council Training Fund of Louisiana ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
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.
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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 Cpwr the Center for Construction Research and Training 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Iupat - Finishing Trades Institute — 56% of income from government
- Building Pathways Inc — 23% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Trustees of Clark University — 2% of income from government
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.