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International Assn of Bridge Structural Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers

Since 1896, the international association of bridge, structural, ornamental and reinforcing iron workers has served as the labor organization for various segments of the ironworking industry throughout the united states of america and canada.

$695k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0181% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$726kEmployment$456kHealth$213kEnvironment$122kSocial Science$40kCivil Rights$30kPublic Safety & Disaster$6kPhilanthropy$6kOther$370k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 4 grants below total $53,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $695,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $641,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$12,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$132M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR WORKERS$20,000
Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc$12,500
International Iron Worker Festival$11,000
DIABETES RESEARCH INSITUTE FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 87% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%GOSNOLD INC: $25k → 8%Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc: $13k → 16%NEW YORK COMMUNITIES FOR CHANGE: $10k → 20%TEXAS AFL-CIO: $10k → 10%DIABETES RESEARCH INSITUTE FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%SOUTH FLORIDA INTERFAITH WORKER JUSTICE: $20k → 15%International Iron Worker Festival: $11k → 16%UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE: $13k → 10%UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE: $104k → 14%CINCINNATI INTERFAITH WORKERS CENTER: $12k → 16%Iron workers Local Union 55: $13k → 18%DISTRICT COUNCIL OF CHICAGO & VICINITY: $25k → 14%CASA DE MARYLAND: $100k → 7%UMWA 2021 STRIKE AID FUND: $25k → 7%CASA DE MARYLAND: $50k → 11%GOSNOLD INC: $10k → 8%HIGH ROAD CONSTRUCTION DEFENSE FUND: $63k → 14%DIABETES RESEARCH INSITUTE FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%TENNESSEE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COALITION: $10k → 14%CINCINNATI INTERFAITH WORKERS CENTER: $12k → 16%ARISE CHICAGO: $30k → 14%ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE: $20k → 14%ARISE CHICAGO: $25k → 14%ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE: $20k → 14%MIDDLE TENNESSEE JOBS WITH JUSTICE: $10k → 14%ARISE CHICAGO: $25k → 14%John H Lyons Sr Scholarship Foundation: $245k → 14%ARISE CHICAGO: $16k → 14%John H Lyons Sr Scholarship Foundation: $235k → 14%ARISE CHICAGO: $10k → 14%John H Lyons Sr Scholarship Foundation: $156k → 14%CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR WORKERS: $43k → 14%BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION TRADES: $42k → 14%CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR WORKERS: $20k → 14%SMWIA SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $13k → 14%CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR WORKERS: $20k → 14%CMRAVE: $12k → 14%JOBS WITH JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND: $58k → 14%SMWI SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $12k → 14%JOBS WITH JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND: $55k → 14%LABOR COUNCIL FOR LATIN AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT: $10k → 14%JOBS WITH JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND: $55k → 14%AMERICA'S AGENDA HEALTHCARE FOR ALL INC: $25k → 14%AMERICA'S AGENDA HEALTHCARE FOR ALL INC: $25k → 14%AMERICA'S AGENDA HEALTHCARE FOR ALL INC: $25k → 14%AMERICA'S AGENDA HEALTHCARE FOR ALL INC: $25k → 14%AMERICA'S AGENDA HEALTHCARE FOR ALL INC: $25k → 14%AMERICA'S AGENDA HEALTHCARE FOR ALL INC: $25k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

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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.

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 13 repeat orgs$334k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
21

Total granted

$1.6M
$310k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+8%

Still filing today

100%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
EmploymentEducationHealthCivil RightsEnvironmentSocial ScienceOther

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

  • JH
    JOHN H LYONS SR SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2022 · $635k · revenue +9% · 73% of their budget
  • JW
    Jobs with Justice Education Fund
    3× · 2017–2020 · $168k · revenue +164%
  • AA
    AMERICA'S AGENDA HEALTH CARE FOR ALL
    6× · 2017–2022 · $150k · revenue ×23

Funded once

  • HC
    HIGH-ROAD CONSTRUCTION DEFENSE FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $63k · revenue -99%
  • LA
    LOS ANGELESORANGE COUNTIES BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION TRADES COUNCILgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $42k · revenue +42%
  • IW
    IRON WORKERS DISTRICT COUNCIL OF CHICAGO AND VICINITYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +329%

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.

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
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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3
International Union of Operating Engineers Local 825ABCDRRH

The work of the union, as the representative of its members, is to provide for the continuous employment of labor, to bring about stable conditions in the industry, and to establish necessary procedures for resolutions of disputes between…

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4
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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5
Laborers International Union of North America Local 225

Organize workers for advancement

Employment
6
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 342

Labor union representing the electrical worker force

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7
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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8
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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9
Laborers International Union of North America

Representing members in matters of collective bargaining.

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10
Laborers International Union of State of Mi

Collective bargaining and representation

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11
Afl-Cio Union Lawyers Alliance

Afl-cio union lawyers alliance was established to better the conditions of working men and women and their families by enhancing the quality of legal representation that is available to the afl-cio and the national and international unions…

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12
Laborers' Int'l Union of North America District Council of Chicago

To promote unity of action in dealing with employers and to coordinate and consolidate the activities of its various affiliated local unions so they can work in a harmonious and united way.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Interfaith Workers Cente and the most unlike its peers is Gosnold Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLand Conservation Organizat…Government Accountability R…Substance Abuse TreatmentChild and Family ServicesCommunity Health CentersLegal Aid & Immigration Ser…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr18%14%10–20yr18%36%20–35yr16%32%35–55yr15%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr18%9%10–20yr18%63%20–35yr16%21%35–55yr15%4%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/32
the rest of the field
12%
1,600/12,969

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.

04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 36 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/31
Grantees still filing
20/31
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JOHN H LYONS SR SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $635,230 · EducationJOHN H LYONS SR SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATIONSHEET METAL WORKERS' INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $43,000 · EducationSHEET METAL WORKERS' INTERNATIONAL SCHOLA…CINCINNATI INTERFAITH WORKERS CENTE — $31,000 · Education+2 more — $16,300 · EducationJobs with Justice Education Fund — $168,000 · EmploymentJobs with Justice Educatio…ARISE CHICAGO — $105,500 · EmploymentARISE CHICAGOChicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative — $83,000 · EmploymentChicago Federation of Labo…HIGH-ROAD CONSTRUCTION DEFENSE FUND — $62,782 · EmploymentHIGH-ROAD CONSTRUCTION DEF…CENTER FOR MILITARY RECRUITMENT ASSESSMENT AND VETERANS EMPLOYMENT — $22,000 · Employment+2 more — $15,000 · EmploymentCASA INC — $150,000 · OtherCASA INCLOS ANGELESORANGE COUNTIES BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION TRADES COUNCIL — $41,742 · OtherLOS ANGELESORANGE COUN…GOSNOLD INC — $35,000 · OtherGOSNOLD INCIRON WORKERS DISTRICT COUNCIL OF CHICAGO AND VICINITY — $25,000 · OtherIRON WORKERS DISTRICT …UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA — $25,000 · OtherUNITED MINE WORKERS OF…SOUTH FLORIDA INTERFAITH WORKER JUSTICE — $20,000 · OtherINT'L ASSOC OF BRIDGE STRUCTURAL & ORNAMENTAL IRON WORKERS LOCAL 55 — $13,000 · Other+9 more — $72,466 · Other+9 moreAMERICA'S AGENDA HEALTH CARE FOR ALL — $150,000 · HealthAMERICA'S AG…DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · HealthDIABETES RES…BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC — $12,500 · HealthBRIDGE OVER …UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE — $122,000 · EnvironmentECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE — $40,000 · Social ScienceTENNESSEE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS COALITION — $10,000 · Civil RightsLABOR COUNCIL FOR LATIN AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT — $10,000 · Civil RightsNew York Communities For Change Inc — $10,000 · Civil Rights
Education$725,530Employment$456,282Other$382,208Health$212,500Environment$122,000Social Science$40,000Civil Rights$30,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJOHN H LYONS SR SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $635,230 over 3y, 73% of budgetJobs with Justice Education Fund — $168,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICA'S AGENDA HEALTH CARE FOR ALL — $150,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetCASA INC — $150,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetUNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE — $122,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetARISE CHICAGO — $105,500 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetChicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative — $83,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetHIGH-ROAD CONSTRUCTION DEFENSE FUND — $62,782 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSHEET METAL WORKERS' INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $43,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetLOS ANGELESORANGE COUNTIES BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION TRADES COUNCIL — $41,742 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE — $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGOSNOLD INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCINCINNATI INTERFAITH WORKERS CENTE — $31,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetIRON WORKERS DISTRICT COUNCIL OF CHICAGO AND VICINITY — $25,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetUNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR MILITARY RECRUITMENT ASSESSMENT AND VETERANS EMPLOYMENT — $22,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetINT'L ASSOC OF BRIDGE STRUCTURAL & ORNAMENTAL IRON WORKERS LOCAL 55 — $13,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTENNESSEE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS COALITION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLABOR COUNCIL FOR LATIN AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNew York Communities For Change Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPEGGY BROWNING FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTEXAS AFL-CIO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOALITION OF LABOR UNION WOMEN — $8,500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetMISSOURI JOBS WITH JUSTICE — $7,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLABOR 411 FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetSHEET METAL WORKERS' INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $6,300 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetINTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANY EMPLOYEE RELIEF FUND — $6,171 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetIRISH PEACE FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budget
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.

International Brother…Communications Worker…International Union o…International Union o…United Food and Comme…United Steel Paper an…Int Union United Auto…Unite HereUnited Association of…American Federation o…Amalgamated Charitabl…Int'L Assoc of H&F In…
International Brotherhood of Electrical WorkersDC28.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers · Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc · International Union of Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers · International Union of Elevator Constructors · United Food and Commercial Workers International Union · United Steel Paper and Forestry Rubber Manufacturing Energy Allied · Int Union United Auto National Community Action Program · Unite Here · United Association of Journeymen & Apprentices of the Plumbing & Pipe · American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Int'L Assoc of H&F Insul & Allied Wkrs

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 International Assn of Bridge Structural Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 32% of income from government
  • Casa Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Gosnold Inc — 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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