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· Public charity

International Union of Elevator Constructors

The exempt purpose is to secure improved wages, hours, working conditions and other economic advantages for its members, and to provide educational advancement and training for officers, employees and members.

$716k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$140k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$1.1MEducation$495kEmployment$329kHealth$320kRecreation & Sports$201kCommunity Improvement$120kPublic Safety & Disaster$78kArts & Culture$78kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $487,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $716,121 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $228,621 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $173k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $315k
$25,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$71M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TOY BOX CONNECTION$140,000
CHRISTOPHER P GARDNER FOUNDATION$75,000
IUEC LOCAL NO 5 CHARITABLE FUND$50,000
NORTH AMERICA BUILDING TRADES UNION$50,000
UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE$39,500
DIXON CENTER FOR MILITARY & VETERANS SERVICES$35,000
BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS$25,000
UNION HISTORIES$15,000
UNION VETERANS COUNCIL$15,000
CMRAVE$12,250
DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION$10,750
MARYLAND TROOPERS ASSOCIATION$10,000
THE BELFAST-BELTWAY BOXING PROJECT$10,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CONTINUE TO SERVE: $10k → 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

IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
TN
DC
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 16 repeat orgs$539k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
27

Total granted

$2.4M
$514k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

75%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
PhilanthropyHealthEducationEmploymentEnvironmentCrime & LegalOther
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

  • TB
    Toy Box Connection NFP
    8× · 2017–2025 · $937k · revenue +6% · 57% of their budget
  • EC
    ELEVATOR CONSTRUCTORS LOCAL 5 CHARITABLE FUND
    5× · 2021–2025 · $225k · revenue +107% · 25% of their budget
  • US
    UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE
    8× · 2017–2025 · $184k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • DN
    DEVELOPMENT NOW FOR CHICAGO
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
  • VY
    VOTE YES FOR WORKERS RIGHTS
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $43k
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
International Union of Operating Engineers Local 624

The organization is a trade union that represents operating engineers, who work as heavy equipment operators, mechanics,and surveyors in the construction industry, and stationary engineers, who work in operations and maintenance in…

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2
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 288

To organize all electrical workers in the construction industry, to promote goodwill among all of those in our trade, to assist each other in sickness and in distress, to secure employment for our members, to secure adequate pay for our…

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3
American Federation of Labor & Bldg & Construction Trades Council

To create a better working environment for the construction industry and its members.

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4
International Assoc of Bridge Structural & Ornamental Iron Workers Local 361

The objectives of the union, as the representative of its members, are to improve working conditions and living standards of members through collective bargaining, education, training and employee benefits and to establish necessary…

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5
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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6
Careers in Construction Sw Washington
Recreation & Sports
7
Service Employees International Uni Michigan Strength in Action Council

To develop and lead the member local unions' strategy and program across local unions, industries and geographies to build power and win justice for workers, their families and their communities.

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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
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 342

Labor union representing the electrical worker force

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10
International Union of Operating Engineers Local 178

To provide fair wages and benefits through negotiations with contractors under collective bargaining agreements.

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11
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers

Electrical workers 270 was charted on july 1, 1952. we aim: to pursue and establish and maintain an adequate wage for our labor. to require of our members skill, intelligence and character. to protect our employers against the unskilled…

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12
Nd State Building & Construction Trades Council

Advocate fair wages, safe working conditions, registered apprenticeships, and dignified retirement.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Roosevelt Institute; the most unlike its peers is Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc. 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

31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 44 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/31
Grantees still filing
14/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Toy Box Connection NFP: $936,548 · PhilanthropyToy Box Connection NFP+3 more: $45,000 · PhilanthropyNORTH AMERICA BUILDING TRADES UNION: $157,652 · OtherNORTH AMERICA BUILDING TRADES UN…FEDCAP REHABILITATION SERVICES INC: $100,000 · OtherFEDCAP REHABILITATION SERVICES I…MARYLAND TROOPERS ASSOCIATION INC: $59,200 · OtherMARYLAND TROOPERS ASSOCIATION IN…UNION VETERANS COUNCIL: $50,000 · OtherUNION VETERANS COUNCILVOTE YES FOR WORKERS RIGHTS: $50,000 · OtherVOTE YES FOR WORKERS RIGHTSUNION HISTORIES: $45,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $42,500 · OtherIRISH ONE INC: $40,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY SCHOOL BUILDING FUND: $28,923 · Other+21 more: $284,962 · Other+21 moreCHRISTOPHER P GARDNER FOUNDATI: $425,000 · Crime & LegalCHRISTOPHER P GA…ELEVATOR CONSTRUCTORS LOCAL 5 CHARITABLE FUND: $224,500 · HealthELEVATOR CO…DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $50,900 · HealthDIABETES RE…BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC: $25,000 · HealthBRIDGE OVER…+1 more: $10,000 · HealthUNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE: $183,750 · EnvironmentDEVELOPMENT NOW FOR CHICAGO: $100,000 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR MILITARY RECRUITMENT ASSESSMENT AND VETERANS EMPLOYMENT: $65,250 · EmploymentHIGH-ROAD CONSTRUCTION DEFENSE FUND: $20,196 · EmploymentNONTRADITIONAL EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMEN: $10,000 · Employment
Philanthropy$981,548Other$858,237Crime & Legal$425,000Health$310,400Environment$183,750Community Improvement$100,000Employment$95,446

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetToy Box Connection NFP: $936,548 over 8y, 57% of budgetCHRISTOPHER P GARDNER FOUNDATI: $425,000 over 6y, 36% of budgetELEVATOR CONSTRUCTORS LOCAL 5 CHARITABLE FUND: $224,500 over 5y, 25% of budgetUNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE: $183,750 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetFEDCAP REHABILITATION SERVICES INC: $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDEVELOPMENT NOW FOR CHICAGO: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR MILITARY RECRUITMENT ASSESSMENT AND VETERANS EMPLOYMENT: $65,250 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMARYLAND TROOPERS ASSOCIATION INC: $59,200 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $50,900 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNION VETERANS COUNCIL: $50,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Elevator Museum Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 39% of budgetHIGH-ROAD CONSTRUCTION DEFENSE FUND: $20,196 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROPOLITAN BALTIMORE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBELFAST-BELTWAY BOXING PROJECT: $17,500 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetPEGGY BROWNING FUND: $15,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetIRISH PEACE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL UNION OF ELEVATOR CONSTRUCTORS LOCAL 31: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEASTER SEALS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNONTRADITIONAL EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMEN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICANS FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetELEVATOR CONSTRUCTORS LOCAL 2 ORGANIZATION FOR DIABETES RESEARCH: $10,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetCONTINUE TO SERVE: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetBEHIND THE SCENES: $10,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetSHEET METAL WORKERS' INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $8,300 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLoyola University Maryland Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL UNION OF ELEVATOR CONSTRUCTORS LOCAL NO 2: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

International Brother…United Association of…International Union o…International Assn of…Laborers' Internation…International Union o…Sheet Metal Workers L…Operative Plasterers …Communications Worker…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
International Brotherhood of Electrical WorkersDC26.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers · United Association of Journeymen & Apprentices of the Plumbing & Pipe · International Union of Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers · International Assn of Bridge Structural Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers · Laborers' International Union of North America · International Union of Painters and Allied Trades · Sheet Metal Workers Local 19 Association Local 19 · Operative Plasterers and Cement Masons' Int'L Assoc of the US & Canada · Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 International Union of Elevator Constructors funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from International Union of Elevator Constructors. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc: 32% of income from government
  • Loyola University Maryland Inc: 6% of income from government
  • The Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Baltimore: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 44 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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