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National Automatic Sprinkler Industry Apprentice & Training Fund at a glance

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National Automatic Sprinkler Industry Apprentice & Training Fund

Education & training of apprentices

$8.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$1.8M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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$54M
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k3 grants · $604k
  • $250k+8 grants · $7.5M
$427,560
Median grant
10
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SPRINKLER FITTERS AND APPRENTICES LOCAL UNION NO 550: $1.2M → 16%PHILADELPHIA # 692: $1.1M → 22%SAN FRANCISCO # 483: $1.3M → 10%LOS ANGELES # 709: $2.7M → 14%SEATTLE # 699: $564k → 9%CHICAGO # 281: $1.3M → 14%NEWARK # 696: $575k → 16%BOSTON # 550: $1.1M → 16%SPRINKLER FITTERS AND APPRENTICES LOCAL UNION NO 692: $1.0M → 22%SAN FRANCISCO # 483: $608k → 10%LOS ANGELES # 709: $2.0M → 14%SEATTLE # 699: $514k → 9%SPRINKLER FITTERS AND APPRENTICES LOCAL UNION NO 281: $1.3M → 14%NEWARK # 696: $523k → 16%BOSTON # 550: $1.1M → 16%PHILADELPHIA # 692: $974k → 22%SPRINKLER FITTERS AND APPRENTICES LOCAL UNION NO 709: $1.8M → 14%SEATTLE # 699: $465k → 9%CHICAGO # 281: $1.2M → 14%NEWARK # 696: $434k → 16%BOSTON # 550: $1.0M → 16%PHILADELPHIA # 692: $969k → 22%LOS ANGELES # 709: $1.8M → 14%SEATTLE # 699: $384k → 9%CHICAGO # 281: $1.1M → 14%NEWARK # 696: $428k → 16%BOSTON # 550: $757k → 16%PHILADELPHIA # 692: $766k → 22%LOS ANGELES # 709: $1.7M → 14%CHICAGO # 281: $1.1M → 14%SPRINKLER FITTERS AND APPRENTICES LOCAL UNION NO 696: $428k → 16%BOSTON # 550: $675k → 16%PHILADELPHIA # 692: $690k → 22%LOS ANGELES # 709: $1.4M → 14%DETROIT # 704: $394k → 8%SPRINKLER FITTERS AND APPRENTICES LOCAL UNION NO 699: $991k → 9%CHICAGO # 281: $1.0M → 14%BOSTON # 550: $586k → 16%PHILADELPHIA # 692: $530k → 22%LOS ANGELES # 709: $1.3M → 14%SPRINKLER FITTERS AND APPRENTICES LOCAL UNION NO 704: $392k → 8%SEATTLE # 699: $966k → 9%CHICAGO # 281: $992k → 14%BOSTON # 550: $521k → 16%PHILADELPHIA # 692: $488k → 22%LOS ANGELES # 709: $1.0M → 14%SEATTLE # 699: $772k → 9%CHICAGO # 281: $434k → 14%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

WA
IL
WI
MI
MA
PA
NJ
CA
MO
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$54M · 12 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
0

Total granted

$54M
$0

Still filing today

83%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • UA
    UNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN & 709 PPF
    8× · 2017–2024 · $14M · revenue +68% · 70% of their budget
  • SF
    SPRINKLER FITTERS AND APPRENTICES LOCAL UNION 281 UA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $8.5M · revenue +33%
  • SF
    SPRINKLER FITTERS & APPR LOCAL UNION 55
    8× · 2017–2024 · $7.0M · revenue +50%

Funded once

    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
    Local Union #601 of Ua of Journeymen & Apprentices of the Plumbing & Pf Ind

    A union to organize employees, service and maintain wages, hours, working conditions and other economic advantages.

    —
    2
    United Association of Journeymen & Apprentices of the Plmbng & Pipe 353 Ppf

    Operation of steamfitters' local union for the benefit of its members

    —
    3
    United Assoc of Journeymen & Apprentices of the Plumbers & Pipe Fitting Local 296

    To protect its members from unjust and injurious competition, and secure through unity of action among all workers of the industry.

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    4
    United Association of Journeymen & Pipefitters Washington State Assoc

    Quality labor conditions for member unions

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    5
    United Association of Journeymen & Apprentices of the Plumbing & Pipe

    To provide for its members through job placing, wage and benefit negotiations, representation and a better quality of life.

    —
    6
    United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices for the Plumbing and Pipef

    The local union acts as the collective bargaining agent for its members

    —
    7
    Plumbers and Pipefitters Local Union No 441

    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.

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    8
    United Association of Journeyman & Apprentice Plumbers Local Union 8

    Promote a healthier, safer community and a decent, respectable continuance of wages and fringes for its members.

    —
    9
    United Assoc of Journeyman & Apprentices of the Plumbers & Pipefitting Industry

    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.

    —
    10
    United Association of Journeymen & Apprentice 27 Ppf

    Provide various services and benefits to members of plumbers local union no. 27

    —
    11
    United Assoc of Journeymen & Apprentof the Plumb& Pipefitting Ind Local 777

    Bargaining agent for the approximately 2,793 members of the local union. provides benefits, fair labor standards and betterment of working conditions.

    —
    12
    United Association of Journeymen Plumbers & Steamfitters Local Union 440

    Labor union

    —
    How this is measured
    The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Association of Journeymen &; 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.
    04the grantee network

    10 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. 10 of the 12 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)
    6
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    10/10
    Grantees still filing
    10/10
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    UNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN & 709 PPF: $13,840,504 · OtherUNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN & 709 PPFSPRINKLER FITTERS AND APPRENTICES LOCAL UNION 281 UA: $8,512,438 · OtherSPRINKLER FITTERS AND APPRENTICES LOCAL UNION 281 UASPRINKLER FITTERS & APPR LOCAL UNION 55: $6,950,885 · OtherSPRINKLER FITTERS & APPR LOCAL UNION 55SPRINKLER FITTERS LOCAL AND APPRENTICES LOCAL UNION NO 692: $6,612,313 · OtherSPRINKLER FITTERS LOCAL AND APPRENTICES LOCAL UNION NO 692UNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN & APPRENTICES: $4,988,107 · OtherUNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN & APPRENTICESUNITED ASSOC OF JOURNEYMEN&APPRENTICES LU #696: $3,409,541 · OtherUNITED ASSOC OF JOURNEYMEN&APPRENTICES LU #696UNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN & 704 DETROIT SPRINKLERS FITTERS: $2,561,294 · OtherSPRINKLER FITTERS AND APPRENTICES LOCAL UNION NO 821: $2,118,822 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO # 483: $1,956,650 · Other+3 more: $3,275,191 · Other+3 more
    Other$54,225,745

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

    25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN & 709 PPF: $13,840,504 over 8y, 70% of budgetSPRINKLER FITTERS AND APPRENTICES LOCAL UNION 281 UA: $8,512,438 over 8y, 14% of budgetSPRINKLER FITTERS & APPR LOCAL UNION 55: $6,950,885 over 8y, 19% of budgetSPRINKLER FITTERS LOCAL AND APPRENTICES LOCAL UNION NO 692: $6,612,313 over 8y, 23% of budgetUNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN & APPRENTICES: $4,988,107 over 8y, 24% of budgetUNITED ASSOC OF JOURNEYMEN&APPRENTICES LU #696: $3,409,541 over 8y, 16% of budgetUNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN & 704 DETROIT SPRINKLERS FITTERS: $2,561,294 over 8y, 9.5% of budgetUNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN &: $1,399,789 over 8y, 18% of budgetSPRINKLERFITTERS LOCAL 314: $1,126,296 over 8y, 18% of budgetUNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN & APPRENTICES OF THE PLUMBING & PIPE: $749,106 over 8y, 9.5% 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.

    • 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 ↗

    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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

    United Association of…
    United Association of Journeymen & Apprentices of the Plumbing & PipeMD13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 National Automatic Sprinkler Industry Apprentice & Training Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Automatic Sprinkler Industry Apprentice & Training Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

    2024
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 20%5%19%42%75%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
      2get no government money at all
      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.
      05Through Plinth

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      Find your warmest path to National Automatic Sprinkler Industry Apprentice & Training Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

      Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

      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 12 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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