· Public charity
International Training Institute for the Sheet Metal & Air Conditioning Industry
To develop and provide educational services and training resources for apprentices and journey persons in the sheet metal and air conditioning industry.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k45 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+1 grant · $279k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SMW LOCAL 20 JATC | $279,040 |
| SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 7 ZONE 1 FIVE CITIES JATC | $104,000 |
| TRI-COUNTIES SHEET METAL WORKERS JATC | $91,000 |
| SMW LOCAL 22 JATC | $86,500 |
| SMW LOCAL 27 JATC | $83,639 |
| NASHVILLE SM JATC | $77,000 |
| TOLEDO AREA SM JATC | $64,000 |
| SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA JATC TRAINING CENTER | $64,000 |
| OMAHACOUNCIL BLUFF JATC | $64,000 |
| UTAH SM EDUCATION & TRAINING TRUST | $57,000 |
| SMW LOCAL 265 JATC | $56,628 |
| LOCAL 19 TRAINING CENTER-CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA | $54,855 |
| HOUSTON SHEET METAL TRAINING CENTER | $54,500 |
| SMW LOCAL 2 JATC | $54,500 |
| LOCAL 29 JATC WICHITA | $53,963 |
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 (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +23% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 40 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M 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
- SMSHEET METAL WORKERS' LOCAL NO 20 APPRENTICESHIP AND TRAINING TRUST2× · 2023–2024 · $347k · revenue +44%
- SMSheet Metal Workers and Tri County AC Sheet Metal Contractors Apprenticeship2× · 2023–2024 · $141k · revenue +89%
- SMSHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 27 EDUCATIONAL TRUST FUND2× · 2023–2024 · $136k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- SMSHEET METAL WORKERS' LOCAL UNION #5graduatedone grant, 2023 · $102k · revenue +35%
- GSGEORGIA SHEET METAL JOINT APPRENTICESHIP TRAINING COMMITTEEone grant, 2023 · $64k · revenue +3%
- CICENTRAL IOWA SHEET METAL TRAINING FUNDone grant, 2023 · $51k · revenue -10%
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.
This is a multiemployer collectively bargained plan that provides training and education for apprentices and journeyman ironworkers.
Training of apprentices
Advancement of sheet metal industry
Training fund
To promote the sheet metal union industry and represent the union membership in collective bargaining efforts.
To improve communications between labor & management
Training programs for the health and safty of the members of the international brotherhood of painters and allied trades
The education and training of apprentices in air conditioning and sheet metal construction
Training apprentice ironworkers to become productive workers in a fast paced workforce.
Apprentice and journeyman training in the plumbing and pipefitting trades.
To provide industry training of ironworkers of local #63.
Apprentice and journeyman training in the drywall finishing trade.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sheet Metal Joint Apprenticeship & Training Committee of Rochester Ny and the most unlike its peers is Saginaw Valley Jatc. 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 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
69 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. 69 of the 70 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 SHEET METAL WORKERS' LOCAL NO 20 APPRENTICESHIP AND TRAINING TRUST ↗
- Who funds Sheet Metal Workers and Tri County AC Sheet Metal Contractors Apprenticeship ↗
- Who funds SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 27 EDUCATIONAL TRUST FUND ↗
- Who funds MADISON AREA SHEET METAL WORKERS EDUCATIONAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds SMACNA NORTHERN ILLINOIS AND SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 219 TRAINING FUND ↗
- Who funds SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 7 ZONE 1 FIVE CITIES ASSN JOINT APPRENTICESHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds SHEET METAL WORKERS' LOCAL UNION #5 (JATC) ↗
- Who funds SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 104 APPRENTICE & JOURNEYMAN TRAINING PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds SHEET METAL WORKERS INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION LOCAL NO 22 EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds SHEET METAL WORKERS J&A TRAIN TR FUND ↗
- Who funds Nashville Sheet Metal Joint Apprenticeship Committee ↗
- Who funds SMART LOCAL 265 EDUCATION AND TRAINING TRUST FUND ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SHEET METAL AIR RAIL & TRANSPORTATION (SEE SCHO) ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO AREA SHEET METAL WORKERS JOINT APPRENTICE COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds SHEET METAL WORKERS TRAINING & EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SHEET METAL JOINT APPRENTICESHIP AND TRAINING COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA SHEET METAL JOINT APPRENTICESHIP TRAINING COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 88 JOINT APPRENTICESHIP & TRAINING FUND ↗
- Who funds Smart Local Union No 49 Joint Apprenticeship and Training Trust Fund ↗
- Who funds SHEET METAL WORKERS JAC OF RENO ↗
- Who funds UTAH SHEET METAL EDUCATION & TRAINING TRUST ↗
- Who funds SHEET METAL WORKER JOINT APPRENTICE & TRAINING COMMITTEE OF CENTRAL PA ↗
- Who funds APPRENTICE AND JOURNEYMAN TRAINING FUND OF SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON AREA SHEET METAL JOINT APPRENTICESHIP COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds SHEET METAL JOINT APPRENTICE COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEASTERN WA & NORTHEASTERN OR SHEET METAL TRAINING TRUST ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL IOWA SHEET METAL TRAINING FUND ↗
- Who funds SHEET METAL INDUSTRY APPRENTICESHIP TRAINING TRUST FUND ↗
- Who funds SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 4 APPRENTICE FUND ↗
- Who funds SHEET METAL INDUSTRY APPRENTICE & TRAINING FUND ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS SHEET METAL WORKERS APPRENTICESHIP ↗
- Who funds LOCAL 263 CEDAR RAPIDS SHEET METAL WORKERS JOINT APPRENTICE COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds SHEET METAL WORKERS JATC ↗
- Who funds JOURNEYMEN-APPRENTICE TRAINING FUND FOR THE SHEET METAL INDUSTRY OF WESTERN ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS SHEET METAL JOINT APPRENTICESHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN SHEET METAL JOURNEYMAN AND APPRENTICE TRAINING TRUST FUND ↗
- Who funds SHEET METAL CONTRACTORS AND LOCAL NO 71 JAC EDUCATION AND TRAINING FUND ↗
- Who funds MODESTO AREA SHEET METAL APPRENTICESHIP TRAINING TRUST ↗
- Who funds SHEET METAL WORKERS JOINT APPRENTICESHIP FUND OF PHILADELPHIA AND VICINITY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Western States Council of Sheet Metal Air Rail & Transportation Workers
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 Training Institute for the Sheet Metal & Air Conditioning 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.
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.