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FUND FOR CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY

Foundation Dossiers

· Public charity

FUND FOR CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY

Advancement of construction industry

$3.8M

Granted FY2024

16

Grants

1

Communities

$641k

Largest

01What you fundRead

03Your edgeRead

04Your fieldRead

05Through PlinthRead

01What you fund

01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 91% of FUND FOR CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

engineering mattersmatters laborlabor relations

2019

engineering mattersmatters laborlabor relations

2020

engineering mattersmatters laborlabor relations

2021

engineering mattersmatters laborlabor relations

2022

engineering mattersmatters laborlabor relations

2023

engineering utilityengineering mattersmatters laborlabor relations

2024

engineering utility

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k2 grants · $54k
$50k–250k8 grants · $1.0M
$250k+6 grants · $2.7M

$179,816

Median grant

1

States reached

$1.4M

Total assets

Largest grants

AGC LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM$640,617
SCCA LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM$638,563
AGC CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION FOUNDATION$472,509
UCON LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM$429,707
CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY FORCE ACCOUNT COUNCIL$277,738
CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY COALITION FOR WATER QUALITY$273,770
CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY AIR QUALITY COALITION$200,923
BUILDING INDUSTRY LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION$179,816
CRIME PREVENTION PROGRAM OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$150,772
UCON INDUSTRY RELATIONS$135,420
SCCA SCHOLARSHIP FUND$106,905
UCON PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT$92,538
SCCA MARKETING OUTREACH$71,270
SCCA CONSTRUCTION UNIVERSITY$62,361
TRANS PERMITS PROGRAM STRATIGIC VENTURES - SUZANNE SCHEIDEKER COOK LLC$33,656

02The need

04

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 11%. 73% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$23M · 12 repeat orgs$116k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12

3

Total granted

$23M

$116k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%

+19%

Still filing today

83%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AW
AGC WORKFORCE DEV PROGRAM
8× · 2017–2024 · $6.9M · revenue +73%
SS
SCCA SCHOLORSHIP PROGRAM
8× · 2017–2024 · $5.5M · revenue +27% · 48% of their budget
CI
CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY COALITION FOR WATER QUALITY
8× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +23% · 75% of their budget

Funded once

E-
ECA -SECURE WATER ALLIANCE
one grant, 2023 · $79k
PO
PUBLIC OUTREACH CAMPAIGN
one grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue +19%
AS
AGC SAFETY LENDING LIBRARY
one grant, 2018 · $2k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Construction Industry

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

California Construction and Industr

To provide members with an instrument through which they may coordinate their efforts to solve problems, establish and maintain business standards, and promote and encourage the use of industry products.

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3

Los Angelesorange Counties Building

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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4

Caliifornia Green Building Council

Usgbc california is the local chapter of the united states green building council, inc., formed in 2002 by professionals representing various sectors of the construction industry, ranging from engineers and architects to designers and…

Environment

5

American Council of Engineering

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

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6

Associated Builders & Contractors

To promote the advancement of the construction industry and free enterprise

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7

California Alliance for Jobs

To enhance and develop unionized construction work in Northern California.

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8

National Association of Minority Contractors Northern California

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

Community Improvement

9

Houston Gulf Coast Building Construction Trades Counc

Coordinate and distribute information relevant to 23 member organizations who represent the construction and building trades industry in the tx gulf coast area.

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10

Coalition for Responsible and Equitable

To ensure that the workers in the construction industry in Los Angeles are highly trained and professional. The organization seeks the creation of good jobs, safety for workers, health care and a secure retirement for working families.

Community Improvement

11

California Water Environment Association

To empower, educate, and connect water professionals to protect public health and the environment.

Environment

12

California Metals Coalition

To organize and conduct research relating to evnironmental regulations and compliance for members in the cast metals industry under both state and federal law.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Associated General Contractors of and the most unlike its peers is Construction Industry Air Quality Coalt. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

2

Early backer (in before they grew)

11/11

Grantees still filing

8/11

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$20,779,941Community Improvement$2,175,565

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.

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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Construction Industry Advancement FundCA33.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Construction Industry Advancement Fund · United Brotherhood of Carpenters &

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 organisation FUND FOR CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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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, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY AIR QUALITY COALITION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~0 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 954539442 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY AIR QUALITY COALITION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 0 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 84% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Fund for Construction Industry?

Find your warmest path to Fund for Construction Industry through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

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State money flows

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