How much did MECHANICAL CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 63% of MECHANICAL CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION’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.

03FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $10k
$10k–50k1 grant · $25k

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$40M

Total assets

Largest grants

MILWAUKEE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE$25,000
CONVOY OF HOPE$9,651

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-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 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.

Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund

Encourage and promote philanthropy and charitable giving.

Philanthropy

American Gas Association

American gas association (the association) is an advocate for natural gas utility companies and their customers. the association helps natural gas utilities achieve operational excellence in the safe, reliable and efficient delivery of…

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Milwaukee School of Engineering

Milwaukee school of engineering (the "university") is a nonprofit, nonsectarian university providing a balanced education at the undergraduate and graduate level for men and women in the disciplines of engineering, business, mathematics,…

Education

Musc Affiliate Physicians

Musc affiliate physicians (map) is organized exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes, including, for such purposes, the making of distributions to affiliated member mainsail health partners and its charitable…

Health

Air Force Academy Foundation

Together, we serve graduates, preserve the heritage of the Academy & Long Blue Line, and support USAFA to develop leaders of character for Air Force, Space Force, and nation.

Philanthropy

Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Embolden creative leaders to transform society through equity, empathy, & imagination.

Education

California Academy of Sciences

To regenerate the natural world through science, learning, and collaboration

Arts & Culture

Minnesota Hospital Association

Advance the health of individuals and communities through leadership, advocacy, and collaboration on behalf of minnesota hospitals and health systems.

Community Improvement

Michigan Colleges Alliance

To strengthen the shared capacity of 14 leading independent colleges and universities.

Education

United Airlines Scholarship Fund

Provides financial assistance through scholarships to united continenal holdings, inc. and majority-owned subsidiaries employees, their spouses or registered domestic partners, and eligible dependents at accredited undergraduate, graduate…

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Great Oaks Charter School

The mission of great oaks charter schools is to mold students who will shape the world, not be defined by it.

Education

Global Academy Foundation

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Mechanical Contracting Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Convoy of Hope. 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

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

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

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

9/10

Grantees still filing

6/10

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$555,000Human Services$125,000International$106,151Education$50,000Recreation & Sports$20,000Public Safety & Disaster$10,000Health$10,000Philanthropy$10,000

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.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE5.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 MECHANICAL CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION 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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3get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

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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.

04Through 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: MCERF.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~4 months of operating runway; revenue held 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 521646891 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 MCERF, 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

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 34% of their budget — diversified.
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.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Mechanical Contractors Association?

Find your warmest path to Mechanical Contractors Association 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.

MECHANICAL CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Mechanical Contractors Association?

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MECHANICAL CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Mechanical Contractors Association?

More from the funding graph