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Mechanical Contractors Association of America Inc

Mcaa's mission is to guide and facilitate member success to build a stronger, more sustainable future for the mechanical contracting industry.

$164k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its 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 2024.

Employment$500kPublic Safety & Disaster$110kFood & Nutrition$106kScience & Tech$55kEducation$50kHuman Services$25kRecreation & Sports$20kHealth$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $95,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $163,698 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $68,698 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–50k2 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$35,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$47M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED ASSOCIATION SCHOLARSHIP TRUST$50,000
SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND$35,000
CONVOY OF HOPE$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 20% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THERE WITH CARE (TWC): $25k → 12%MCAA DISASTER RELIEF FUND: $100k → 8%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

WI
NY
CA
CO
MO
MD
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 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
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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2
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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3
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
4
Us Naval Academy Foundation Inc

To support, promote, and advance the mission of the naval academy.

Education
5
National Academy of Engineering Fund

Naef supports the activities of the national academy of engineering (nae). nae operates within the charter and framework of the national academy of sciences (nas) and advises the federal government on matters of science and technology. nae…

Science & Tech
6
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
7
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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8
American University of Armenia Corporation

Support of the educational and research activities of the american university of armenia (aua).

Education
9
University of Arizona Foundation

The university of arizona foundation is committed to supporting and enhancing the vision, mission and values of the university of arizona through the development and management of private support.

Education
10
University Health Inc

Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…

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11
Ua Local 38 Scholarship Trust Fund of San Francisco Marin Sonoma Mendocino

The fund was established by the terms of a trust agreement for the purpose of providing scholarships for attendance in colleges or universities by dependents of eligible participants in this multiemployer plan.

Membership Benefit
12
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Convoy of Hope; the most unlike its peers is The Hawn Foundation. 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

12 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. 12 of the 13 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
5/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE MECHANICAL CONTRACTING FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 · OtherTHE MECHANICAL CONTRACTING FOUNDATION INCJB KNOWLEDGE INC: $55,000 · OtherJB KNOWLEDGE INCMCAA CHARITABLE FUND: $100,000 · Human ServicesMCAA CHARITABL…THERE WITH CARE: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHERE WITH CAR…CONVOY OF HOPE: $116,151 · InternationalCONVOY OF HOP…UNITED ASSOCIATION SCHOLARSHIP TRUST: $50,000 · EducationUNITED ASSO…IDEA Public Schools: $25,000 · EducationIDEA Public…THE MILWAUKEE SCIENCE EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC: $25,000 · EducationTHE MILWAUK…SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $35,000 · HealthGLOBAL HEALTH CORPS INC: $10,000 · HealthHOMENETMEN-ARMENIAN GENERAL ATHLETIC & SCOUTS INC: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsUA CHARITABLE FUND TRUST: $10,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE HAWN FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$555,000Human Services$125,000International$116,151Education$100,000Health$45,000Recreation & Sports$20,000Public Safety & Disaster$10,000Philanthropy$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE MECHANICAL CONTRACTING FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetCONVOY OF HOPE: $116,151 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIDEA Public Schools: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MILWAUKEE SCIENCE EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOMENETMEN-ARMENIAN GENERAL ATHLETIC & SCOUTS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUA CHARITABLE FUND TRUST: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGLOBAL HEALTH CORPS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HAWN FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

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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 Mechanical Contractors Association of America Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mechanical Contractors Association of America Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 13 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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