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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.

$6.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$4.3M
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$27MEmployment$7.8MEducation$4.2MPublic Benefit$632k
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $2.3M
  • $250k+3 grants · $4.9M
$144,469
Median grant
15
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 28% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%UNIV OF MASS-LOWELL: $238k → 8%JOBTRAIN: $199k → 7%NATIONAL IRONWORKERS: $373k → 14%GST MICHIGAN WORKS: $174k → 16%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $379k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $286k → 9%HANFORD MISSION INTEGRATION SOLUTIONS LLC: $176k → 11%WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY: $210k → 19%VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INST: $296k → 21%FINISHING TRADES INSTITUTE: $241k → 6%INSULATION INDUSTRY: $488k → 11%UNIV OF MASS-LOWELL: $230k → 8%BUILDING PATHWAYS INC: $193k → 16%JOBTRAIN: $193k → 7%NATIONAL IRONWORKERS: $369k → 14%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $336k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $200k → 9%VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INST: $178k → 21%FINISHING TRADES INSTITUTE: $182k → 6%INSULATION INDUSTRY: $352k → 11%UNIV OF MASS-LOWELL: $226k → 8%BUILDING PATHWAYS INC: $168k → 16%JOBTRAIN: $173k → 7%NATIONAL IRONWORKERS: $362k → 14%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $319k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $197k → 9%INSULATION INDUSTRY: $310k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE: $207k → 19%UNIV OF MASS-LOWELL: $217k → 8%JOBTRAIN: $170k → 7%NATIONAL IRONWORKERS: $360k → 14%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $269k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $171k → 9%INSULATION INDUSTRY: $281k → 11%UNIV OF MASS-LOWELL: $192k → 8%NATIONAL IRONWORKERS: $331k → 14%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $220k → 11%INSULATION INDUSTRY: $256k → 11%UNIV OF MASS-LOWELL: $174k → 8%NATIONAL IRONWORKERS: $276k → 14%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $194k → 11%INSULATION INDUSTRY: $253k → 11%ZENITH AME SOLUTION: $4.3M → 9%ZENITH AME SOLUTION: $4.2M → 9%ZENITH AME SOLUTION: $4.0M → 9%ZENITH AME SOLUTION: $3.7M → 9%ZENITH AME SOLUTION: $3.6M → 9%ZENITH AME SOLUTION: $2.3M → 9%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

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OR
NV
IA
PA
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
WV
VA
MD
AZ
NM
NC
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DC
LA
AL
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$39M · 34 repeat orgs$633k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
10

Total granted

$39M
$457k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+35%

Still filing today

38%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $176k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEmploymentHealthOther
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

  • NI
    NATIONAL IRONWORKERS AND EMPLOYERS APPRENTICESHIP TRAINING AND JOURNEYMAN UPGRAD
    6× · 2020–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +64%
  • II
    INSULATION INDUSTRY'S INTERNATIONAL APPRENTICE & TRAINING FUND
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +65%
  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • FT
    FINISHING TRADES INSTITUTE OF DISTRICT COUNCIL 10
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $90k · revenue +63%
  • CS
    Central South Carpenters Regional Council Training Fund of Louisiana
    one grant, 2020 · $83k · revenue +9%
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
Finishing Trades Institute of the Great Lakes

Apprentice training for members of the painters union district council 1m.

Employment
2
The George Washington University

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…

Education
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
4
District Council 5 Apprenticeship & Training Trust Fund

The trust provides apprentice and journeyman training programs to participants in the painting, drywall, floor covering, glaziers, and sign painter/paint makers industries.

Education
5
Ranken Technical College

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…

Education
6
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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)

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7
Finishing Trades Institute of the Upper Midwest Trust Fund

Apprenticeship and training program.

Education
8
Carpenters and Joiners Apprenticeship and Journeymen Training Trust Fund

Apprenticeship and journeymen training fund

Employment
9
Illinois Institute of Technology

To provide distinctive and relevant education in an environment of scientific, technological, and professional knowledge creation and innovation.

Education
10
The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide educational services, see schedule o.

Education
11
Lehigh University

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…

Education
12
Finishing Trades Institute of Dc 14 Chicago

Professional trade education

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Pittsburgh; 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.
04the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
17/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ZENITH AME SOLUTION: $22,097,247 · OtherZENITH AME SOLUTIONNATIONAL IRONWORKERS AND EMPLOYERS APPRENTICESHIP TRAINING AND JOURNEYMAN UPGRAD: $2,069,316 · OtherNATIONAL IRONWORKERS AND EMPLOYERS APPRENTICESHIP TRAINING AND JOURNEYMAN UPGRADUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $1,276,583 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $1,113,742 · Other+29 more: $5,916,796 · Other+29 moreINSULATION INDUSTRY'S INTERNATIONAL APPRENTICE & TRAINING FUND: $1,940,966 · EmploymentINSULATION…JOBTRAIN INC: $1,053,082 · EmploymentJOBTRAIN I…BUILDING PATHWAYS INC: $722,604 · EmploymentBUILDING P…WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $1,718,000 · EducationWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION: $833,722 · EducationTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY: $116,834 · Education+5 more: $323,355 · EducationGEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION: $59,989 · Health
Other$32,473,684Employment$3,716,652Education$2,991,911Health$59,989

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL IRONWORKERS AND EMPLOYERS APPRENTICESHIP TRAINING AND JOURNEYMAN UPGRAD: $2,069,316 over 6y, 6.8% of budgetINSULATION INDUSTRY'S INTERNATIONAL APPRENTICE & TRAINING FUND: $1,940,966 over 6y, 16% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $1,718,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJOBTRAIN INC: $1,053,082 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetIUPAT - FINISHING TRADES INSTITUTE: $890,036 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION: $833,722 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBUILDING PATHWAYS INC: $722,604 over 5y, 11% of budgetINTERNATIONAL TRAINING INSTITUTE FOR THE SHEET METAL & AIR CONDITIONING INDUSTRY: $592,709 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetCENTRAL SOUTH CARPENTERS & MILLWRIGHTS TRAINING TRUST FUND: $379,174 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY: $116,834 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFINISHING TRADES INSTITUTE OF DISTRICT COUNCIL 10: $99,610 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $90,223 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY: $89,970 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION: $59,989 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $33,552 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA STATE BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION TRADES COUNCIL: $13,022 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCornell University: $10,000 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.

  • 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 ↗

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 Cpwr the Center for Construction Research and Training funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cpwr the Center for Construction Research and Training. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 23%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 45 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home