· Public charity
National Automatic Sprinkler Industry Apprentice & Training Fund
Education & training of apprentices
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 100% of NATIONAL AUTOMATIC SPRINKLER INDUSTRY APPRENTICE & TRAINING FUND’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k3 grants · $604k
- $250k+8 grants · $7.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPRINKLER FITTERS AND APPRENTICES LOCAL UNION NO 709 | $1,809,784 |
| SPRINKLER FITTERS AND APPRENTICES LOCAL UNION NO 281 | $1,305,577 |
| SPRINKLER FITTERS AND APPRENTICES LOCAL UNION NO 550 | $1,165,886 |
| SPRINKLER FITTERS AND APPRENTICES LOCAL UNION NO 692 | $1,049,389 |
| SPRINKLER FITTERS AND APPRENTICES LOCAL UNION NO 699 | $990,694 |
| SPRINKLER FITTERS AND APPRENTICES LOCAL UNION NO 696 | $427,560 |
| SPRINKLER FITTERS AND APPRENTICES LOCAL UNION NO 704 | $392,250 |
| SPRINKLER FITTERS AND APPRENTICES LOCAL UNION NO 821 | $362,791 |
| SPRINKLER FITTERS AND APPRENTICES LOCAL UNION NO 183 | $239,346 |
| SPRINKLER FITTERS AND APPRENTICES LOCAL UNION NO 542 | $189,483 |
| SPRINKLER FITTERS AND APPRENTICES LOCAL UNION NO 314 | $174,881 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% 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.
12 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
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
- UAUNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN & 709 PPF8× · 2017–2024 · $14M · revenue +68% · 70% of their budget
- SFSPRINKLER FITTERS AND APPRENTICES LOCAL UNION 281 UA8× · 2017–2024 · $8.5M · revenue +33%
- SFSPRINKLER FITTERS & APPR LOCAL UNION 558× · 2017–2024 · $7.0M · revenue +34%
Funded once
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.
A union to organize employees, service and maintain wages, hours, working conditions and other economic advantages.
Operation of steamfitters' local union for the benefit of its members
To protect its members from unjust and injurious competition, and secure through unity of action among all workers of the industry.
Quality labor conditions for member unions
To provide for its members through job placing, wage and benefit negotiations, representation and a better quality of life.
The local union acts as the collective bargaining agent for its members
Union purposes include negotiating fair wages, safe working conditions, job protection and education of its members. membership consists of journeymen and apprentices of the plumbing and pipefitting industry.
Promote a healthier, safer community and a decent, respectable continuance of wages and fringes for its members.
Representation of members in all matters dealing with working conditions, work rules, jurisdictions and acting as their bargaining agent in contract negotiations with mechanical contractors.
Provide various services and benefits to members of plumbers local union no. 27
Bargaining agent for the approximately 2,793 members of the local union. provides benefits, fair labor standards and betterment of working conditions.
Labor union
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Association of Journeymen & and the most unlike its peers is United Association of Journeymen & Apprentices of the Plumbing & Pipe. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 12 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 UNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN & 709 PPF ↗
- Who funds SPRINKLER FITTERS AND APPRENTICES LOCAL UNION 281 UA ↗
- Who funds SPRINKLER FITTERS & APPR LOCAL UNION 55 ↗
- Who funds SPRINKLER FITTERS LOCAL AND APPRENTICES LOCAL UNION NO 692 ↗
- Who funds UNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN & APPRENTICES ↗
- Who funds UNITED ASSOC OF JOURNEYMEN&APPRENTICES LU #696 ↗
- Who funds UNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN & 704 DETROIT SPRINKLERS FITTERS ↗
- Who funds UNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN & ↗
- Who funds SPRINKLERFITTERS LOCAL 314 ↗
- Who funds UNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN & APPRENTICES OF THE PLUMBING & PIPE ↗
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: United Association of Journeymen & Apprentices of the Plumbing & Pipe
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 National Automatic Sprinkler Industry Apprentice & Training Fund 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.
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